The Rock Returns to His Football Roots  1/6/06

Wrestler-turned-movie star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson will return to his American football roots in 2006 with two films about the sport.

The Scorpion King star, who was a football star at the University of Miami, will play a hard-living single athlete who discovers he once fathered a child in one movie and a real-life coach of a detention camp team in another.

In the untitled first film, The Rock will have to give up his partying, bachelor ways when learns he has a seven-year-old daughter.

The second film, Gridiron Gang, is based on a true story.