Weight room is first and foremost. When I came into the league, I had to put on about 15-30 pounds of muscle just to have a shot at cracking the lineup. And that's how it is for almost every new NSFL player. They just don't know how to work out and eat right. Too much of the greasy fast food during the season, these guys are used to their talent being enough to carry them through the season, and that's simply not how it is in the pros. Do I indulge in some deep dish in the offseason? Abso-fucking-lutely. But during the season it's lean time, packing on weight so that I can be the guy putting on the hits, not the guy getting hit. So we'd start there, with diet and weights. Once they've got that down, it'd just be about showing them the facilities, maybe taking them around the town to all the local spots, where they can get free stuff from the townspeople and not waste their valuable rookie contracts on anything but equipment purchases. We'd of course meet with the media, whose exposure is vital to selling enough merch to become an icon outside the NSFL. Because that's what it's all about, leveraging that NSFL fame into something bigger than the sport or the league, becoming a global brand has to be on the forefront of rookies' minds.
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