Gridiron Gang

About Gridiron Gang

Gridiron Gang is a 2006 film starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell, and Kevin Dunn. It was filmed in California at Camp Kilpatrick, a Los Angeles County Probation Department facility. It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season, the very first in which they played eleven man football. Kilpatrick is a facility located in Malibu, California for juvenile delinquents with multiple offenses, such as murder and gang violence. The overall moral is that even though people deal with difficulties in their lives, these young teenagers overcome their fears and frustrations using self-discipline and learn to leave their problems on the football field.

The movie starts during an evening at the Kilpatrick detention center. Their supervisor, Malcolm Moore (Xzibit), is minding his own business when a kid named Roger (Michael J. Pagan) wraps his fist in a pillow case, gets up, and starts throwing punches at the kid sleeping next to him. Roger is immediately taken to another building, called "The Box", where they lock up kids with behavior problems.

Their other supervisor Sean Porter (The Rock) walks into Roger's cell and starts beating Roger with a rolled-up magazine. Roger pleads that the guy he beat up was disrespecting his gang. Sean tells Roger he beat him because that is what Roger did to the rival gang member and tells him that he will only end up dead. Roger cools down and seems to understand what Sean is trying to tell him.