Jai-Alai is sometimes nicknamed "the fastest ball sport in the world". At the time of filming of this episode, the standing world record for the fastest thrown pelota, as the ball is called in Jai-Alai, was 190 mph. As of 2007, the fastest Jai-Alai ball speed is over 200 mph.
The term "killshot" refers to a hard or well-placed shot in jai-alai designed to make the opponent miss.
Dialogue from this episode was used as a sample in the Belgian New Beat song 'Drop The Deal' by Code 61.
Jai-alai is still played at the same venue where the scenes for this episode were filmed. The facility became Casino Miami Jai-Alai in 2014, and the frontage was finally updated after several decades of neglect.
Bob Mayer, a Miami news anchor at the time appears as himself in the news report about Tico at the end of the episode.