People no longer remember the Golden Age of the 20th Century. They don't remember the miraculous Technology or the cruel wars that followed. They don't remember when Juggers first played The Game or how it came to be played with a dog skull.......

In this time, most live from hand to mouth in enclaves known as "market-towns" or "dog-towns", scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, and trading in whatever remnant trinkets from the past still survive.

What little entertainment is available in these times comes primarily from a brutal sport known only as The Game, and the merriment that follows after the day's play. It is played by bands of roving teams known collectively as "Juggers", from town to town they travel to challenge local town teams. They pass for what might be considered as professional athletes, as they make their living through the tribute paid by the people of the town, should they defeat the local team. Their trophy is the decorated dog skull from the town. The Game involves two armed and armoured teams of four plus one unarmoured player (5 in total) attempting to score by placing a dog skull on the opposing team's goalpost. The unarmed player, "the Quick", is the only person on the team allowed to carry the skull (ball) and needs to be protected by the team's other members. For every band of Juggers, their ambition is to make it all the way to "The League", the ultimate game played in the nine remaining subterranean cities that have survived the destruction of civilization.

Not all in this time live so sparsely. To this day, The Nine Cities, buried deep underground, are home to affluent and powerful members of an aristocracy. Additionally, each of The Nine Cities fields its own team of juggers in an organization known as The League, and its membership is maintained with a fresh stream of new players who can prove excellence in travelling "dog-town" games by their collection of trophy skulls.

Members of The League live in luxury almost equal to that of aristocrats. It is a common dream among roving Juggers to be good enough to receive The League's attention and, with it, all of the luxuries afforded a League player.


For anyone not familiar with the film try these links out
Salute of the Jugger trailer on YouTube
IMDB film review
Please note that the film goes by 2 names- Salute of the Jugger and Blood of Heroes