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Yesterday I made a trip down to Feltman's of Coney Island and it went great.
In the words of Ice Cube, “I have to say, today was a good day.” Yesterday actually wasn’t a good day, it was a GREAT day. My dad and I took off from Enfield to Brooklyn, New York to make an appearance at Feltman’s headquarters to do what? We didn’t really know.
For a little backstory, when the NIL bill was approved and went live on July 1st, Barstool Sports launched Barstool Athlete and just about every college athlete in America tweeted in Dave Portnoy’s direction, shaking their ass and waving their arms, including myself. Well, I got the El Pres retweet, here it is incase you guys forgot.
The Twitter response was nuts. Over thirty five thousand likes and a response from Nick Mangold but, the best thing that came out of it was one tweet from Feltman’s.
Since then, I’ve began corresponding back and forth with CEO Joe Quinn in direct messages and on July 2nd, the Feltman’s Twitter account tossed out a tweet about coming down to headquarters and I happily obliged.
After a few more days of corresponding with Joe, we decided that yesterday was going to be the day to show my face in Brooklyn. My dad and I hopped in the Sorento and headed south to a city that as many of you know I am not a fan of. We parked and made our way into the building.
As we hopped off the elevator, I ran right into Joe and was greeted with a big “You’re here. What’s up man!” and a handshake. We entered into their office and chatted for a little bit, building up rapport.
Joe went into detail about his time at West Point and how for about seven minutes he was the nations greatest basketball player. He nailed a three and had a behind the back pass against Duke while they were down by around sixtyish.
Joe explained how his confidence took over in the game against the Blue Devils and that he crossed over Jay Williams and as he was about to dunk on Carlos Boozer, got the ball stolen which turned into a Mike Dunleavy alley oop.
When the conversation came to a bit of a lull, Joe asked “So, what’re we doing with this?” I said “I’ve got no clue.” We exchanged a few laughs and both explained how we were still unsure of how the NIL bill worked. After kicking around some thoughts, Joe found a solution.
He came up with the idea for me to rep the Feltman’s brand as an athlete for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy football team and on the My Parents Office podcast. When we finally ironed out the details, I became the first Feltman’s of Coney Island collegiate athlete.
I got to sign their illustrious wall of celebrities, took a few photos, and walked out the door with a new t-shirt and a box full of hot dogs, mustard, and koozies. Doesn’t get much better than that.
I really cannot thank Joe and the rest of the Feltman’s crew for all of the support through out this wild process. An absolute class act organization that respects and supports every aspect of the American Dream. Go buy some Feltman’s hot dogs.