Home Team True Story: The Movie's Biggest Changes & What Happened Next

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Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Home Team

Netflix's sports comedy Home Team is based on a true story, but as with all true story films, the real-life characters moved on and the movie made certain story changes to heighten theatricality and improve the narrative flow. That said, some of the things that remain true about the movie may be surprising to some viewers. Home Team follows the events immediately after the 2012 season suspension of New Orleans Saints' head coach Sean Payton (Kevin James) after the scandal known as "Bountygate," in which Saints players were given bounties to purposefully injure opposing players that included Minnesota Vikings star veteran Brett Favre and Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner. However, while these real figures play a central part in the story, there are elements to the drama that take liberties with the truth.

Home Team focuses on Sean Payton and his too-good-to-be-true story before he was brought back onto the Saints in the 2013 season. Being the first NFL coach to ever be suspended for any reason, some believe Home Team glosses over the controversial Bountygate scandal too lightly. However, of all coaches to have serious scandals tarnish their career, like the "Spygate" and "Deflategate" scandals against Bill Belichick's New England Patriots, Payton had an especially unusual off-coaching story. For instance, while not being allowed to coach NFL football during his suspension, Payton returned to his family in Argyle, Texas and coached his son's middle school football team, the Liberty Christian Warriors. Home Team comes from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions and Kevin James' Hey Eddie Productions, resulting in another collaboration between the comedians after movies