Dave Rimington Show

As you can imagine,  game day in the NFL is a special time for players.  I thought I would give the listeners/readers a taste of what it was like.  I guess the logical place to start this adventure is the night before the game.  We would all meet at an area hotel about 5:30-6 pm the night before the game we then would check in and relax for about 1 hour or so.  Then we would have a team dinner...this  is when the boys would load up on a grand assortment of food.  When I first came into the league steaks (yes plural) seem to be the food of choice.  As time went on guys seemed to eating less steak and more pasta (Damn Nutritionists!).  This was no place for the timid, regardless of what was the emphasis, there were massive amounts of food being consumed. All this was followed by the ice cream dessert station...Banana Split heaven.  After the gluttony we then went into meetings and tried not to fall a sleep. In the beginning of my career this was pretty simple stuff...coaches would just give a speec