(S25) - PT 2 - Endorsement Money

[GoonerBear]

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[Tayjay]

PBE affiliate

[Beebob]

Being a mid-round draft pick rookie in the ISFL, it can be said Harley Fank has been having some trouble exactly finding an endorsement around the league. Luckily though, his agent was able to get him a deal with an all new company specializing in... Male baldness? For whatever reason, some random startup company named Auguano wants him to endorse their brand new "Frank's hair cream". Yep, Frank's hair cream, regardless of the fact that the ISFL rookie is still 20 and will likely not be facing this issue for at least another 25 years, could you image going bald at age 29, but how in the world did they manage to end up with the name Frank's? Were they attempting to with his own name? How could they have possibly made that mistake? Ignoring some of those obvious questions, Fank accepted the deal and has already begun filming his first commercial with the company. Yep, I spoke right, they began filming commercials set to air around the New York area while the Silverbacks games are on. Fank is nevertheless glad he took those Spanish classes Highschool as pretty much half of his takes while filming consisted of him endorsing this hair cream while in Spanish.

[jeffie43]

SHL Affiliate

[RansackTheUniverse]

Eldrick Avery has not had a whole lot of luck with endorsements in his career. However he recently just landed his biggest deal yet. Natrel Butter recently added Avery on as their new product spokesman. When Natrel approached Avery with this deal, it was a very easy decision for Avery, as butter is a perfect match for him. After setting the American High School record for the most drops ever in a season, Avery has been called butter fingers more than just once or twice. After switching positions from wide receiver to cornerback, Avery thought that the butter fingers nickname was a thing of the past. However, Avery went on the set the record for the most consecutive games without an interception for a cornerback, at 35 straight games. So butter fingers was clearly back, and what better way to deal with it, then to at least make some money from it. Avery has starred in a series of commercials where he repeatedly drops footballs because his hands are too buttery. While the commercials didn't turn out to be particularly funny, it's not Avery's problem, as he's already signed a 5 year deal with Natrel worth 20 million dollars. And on top of that, Avery can make an extra million dollars for every season he goes without an interception during the course of the contract. Avery unfortunately got an interception in the first game of the season, so while he won't be collecting that million dollar bonus this season, you can be sure that he will be gunning for it next season.

[Rise of Smitty]

Tre'Darius J'Vathon has always dreamed of making it big time in professional sports to the point that he would be sought after for lucrative endorsement deals. This is exactly what happened as Tre'Darius J'Vathon has recently become a brand ambassador for The Upper Deck Company and is now an exclusive athlete for The Upper Deck Company for all things signed memorabilia. J'Vathon has signed a 5-year, $24 million dollar deal that he will only sign memorabilia either directly for Upper Deck to put into products or at Upper Deck hosted events. He joins a long lineage of elite athletes such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Lebron James, Shaquille O'Neal, and Luka Doncic as Upper Deck exclusive athletes. While J'Vathon has not really had major success as the ISFL level, The Upper Deck Company sees massive potential in him and is attempting to get out in front before his asking price climbs as he finds more success in the ISFL. This is huge for the ISFL as they have not had any athletes sign exclusive deals with a sport card and memorabilia company and this could pave a pathway in the future for other ISFL athletes. Be on the lookout for J'Vathon signed jerseys, cleats, helmets, mini helmets, and more to start hitting the Upper Deck website later in 2020 as well as various mystery products that will hit retailers in early 2021.

[r0tzbua]

When you are an athlete that recently got their gig in the big leagues you aren’t making a ton of money yet. Your savings aren’t big, you spend a lot of money on getting better and don’t have the big contracts a lot of the star players get. So when Guy Fields’ agent called him after he had been called up to the ISFL with his first offers for endorsement deals he was excited beyond belief. Even though not a lot of big brands take their chance on a relative unknown - even when he was picked in the first round of the draft - there were multiple offers on the table for Fields. Next to some hair products and the usual unhealthy food choices, one struck him as a perfect fit: Red Bull. They realized early that he was one of the only players in the league with Austrian heritage. Seeing that they are an Austrian company themselves he was on the top of their board to strike a deal with. Fields signed with them shortly after the draft after endorsing super-local small brands in Dallas in his year in the DSFL this was a big new amount of instant cash for him. Since he is pretty much an unknown commodity in the league Red Bull offered him a 2-year endorsement contract for starters and depending on his on-field performance will look at more and longer contracts in the future. He will mostly appear with the other Red Bull athletes at events and their current set of TV ads while running a blog about his ISFL life on the website.

[Booger]

[DatSmolBoi]

To be honest, Sean Snyder wasn't really the one to do commercials, talk shows, magazines, and stuff that popular people did. All he did is just play football and make bank. So one day while he was chilling in his house, he got a call from his agent. His agent said that a company wanted to shoot a commercial with me. I responded "Oh okay, who wants to shoot a commercial with me?" "Geico." Snyder was pretty shocked to be honest with you because A: He isn't really good at acting like at all. and B: Why the hell does Geico want me to do a commercial with them. But either way, he accepted the offer because he is dying in bankruptcy right now. So it turned out that it was a pretty crazy ad that was basically like a acid trip. Snyder was just attempting to say how Geico is cool while spinning in circles while he turned into different colors. After being traumatized from the commercial experience, Snyder says to the media "Yeah my mind is pretty messed up right now BUT I did get about 500,000 from it so hell fucking yeah ill do it again." Snyder's next cpmmercial offer was not from Geico but actually from Pizza Hut where he was a chef that says to stop smoking and try the new 3 topping pizza meal for just 10.99

[gucci]

My sponsor in Hawaii is SPAM. KKM is in TV commercials around the islands, print ads in the local newspapers, and goes on a radio show weekly in Honolulu to talk about how good spam is for people. KKM has really embraced the community around him after changing his name, and being one of the faces of the franchise, the people of Hawaii have embraced him as well. At first it was hard getting endorsements, but several have been rolling in as he continues to Bossum as both a receiver and a runner in the Honolulu offense. Right now his age and his fielding offers daily for new endorsements, but spam continues to pay him the most by far, and supports his extravagant lifestyle. They’re talking about bringing on his Honolulu teammate Luke Skywalker as another spam spokes person as well, and KKM trying to make that happen however we can.