04-06-2022, 09:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2022, 09:41 AM by Crunk. Edited 1 time in total.)
Aleksandr Milescu, rookie Safety out of Baltimore, Maryland was picked up off waivers by the London Royals. Hoping to make a splash in the last few weeks of the DSFL season and increase his draft prospects Milescu hopped on a red eye flight and was across the pond the same day.
Jet lagged but excited, the safety reported to the team training facility bags still in hand. The rest of the day was a whirlwind- temporary locker assignment, practice jersey, basic drills, playbook review, the traditional rookie pigl hunt...the day was exhausting to say the least.
As it would turn out for Milescu, report to the training facility was the easy part. Leaving for the day, it dawned on him that he a) had no transportation and b) had nowhere to stay while in London. Not wanting to seem unprepared or like the total rookie he was, Milescu was happy to find his Uber app still worked in England. Airbnb too, so he found. So in the end, London's newest American immigrant found himself sleeping on a couch in a random stranger's flat downtown. It worked well enough. Besides- eventually Milescu would be paid, right? And if all went well over the next few weeks he'd break up some passes, maybe pull in a few INTs, and gain enough attention from the scouts that he'd need to find permanent housing come draft day.
Jet lagged but excited, the safety reported to the team training facility bags still in hand. The rest of the day was a whirlwind- temporary locker assignment, practice jersey, basic drills, playbook review, the traditional rookie pigl hunt...the day was exhausting to say the least.
As it would turn out for Milescu, report to the training facility was the easy part. Leaving for the day, it dawned on him that he a) had no transportation and b) had nowhere to stay while in London. Not wanting to seem unprepared or like the total rookie he was, Milescu was happy to find his Uber app still worked in England. Airbnb too, so he found. So in the end, London's newest American immigrant found himself sleeping on a couch in a random stranger's flat downtown. It worked well enough. Besides- eventually Milescu would be paid, right? And if all went well over the next few weeks he'd break up some passes, maybe pull in a few INTs, and gain enough attention from the scouts that he'd need to find permanent housing come draft day.