In this movie remake, a former NFL MVP pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is sent to prison. The warden (James Cromwell) wants Paul to help coach his semi-pro prison guards' team back to the championship. Paul says no at first, but the sadistic warden has him beaten and put in the hot box.
Paul now agrees to do anything the warden wants. Paul comes up with the idea that the guards need a warm-up game with the inmates. Paul gets the Caretaker (Chris Rock) and Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) to recruit a team of the meanest and biggest inmates in the prison.
The inmates only join the team to get their revenge against the guards in a no-holds-barred game. At first, Paul is just playing a football game, but later he realizes that he wants to win the game for his teammates, and his new friends. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy).