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.
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