The Long Beach legend played a former football star sentenced to community service in a new trailer for ‘The Underdoggs’ released on Wednesday (Dec. 6), by Amazon Prime Video.
The official trailer for ‘THE UNDERDOGGS’ – starring Snoop Dogg, Mike Epps, George Lopez, and more
Snoop Dogg hits the football field for Prime Video’s The Underdoggs trailer, featuring the Doggfather as a pee-wee youth football coach.
Jaycen “Two Js” Jennings (Snoop Dogg) is a washed-up ex-professional football star who has hit rock bottom. When Jaycen is sentenced to community service coaching the Underdoggs, an unruly pee-wee football team in his hometown of Long Beach, California, he sees it as an opportunity to rebuild his public image and turn his life around. As Jaycen works to transform the foul-mouthed Underdoggs into top-notch champions, he reconnects with his past, including an old flame and few of his ex-teammates and rediscovers his love of the game.
The Underdoggs comes to Prime Video Jan. 26.
The film written by Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis, with Tika Sumpter (Sonic the Hedgehog, Ride Along, Southside with You), Mike Epps (Next Friday, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Hangover), Andrew Schulz (Write When You Get Work, A Christmas Feast, You People), and George Lopez (The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D, The Spy Next Door, Valentine’s Day) starring alongside Snoop Dogg as primary cast members.
Snoop has served as a coach for his son Cordell’s pee-wee football team; Cordell has since gone on to play college football before leaving his UCLA team in 2015. Dogg’s love for coaching has been chronicled in the 2018 Netflix docuseries, Coach Snoop.
Back in the fall of 2005, Snoop Dogg started his Snoop Youth Football League in California. Since then, the league has helped quite a few kids launch NFL careers and made a big difference in the lives of countless others.