The title is based upon the cheerleader cheer at a high school football game: Block that kick!
Daniel J. Travanti, who plays Rock, would go on to star in the award-winning 80s TV drama Hill Street Blues (1981).
Sorrell Brook is boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard
In the episode the character is Myron Rock Tugwell and in the credits Hank Rock Elway