Bucs writer Scott Smith is a fan of the GFL, which we learned in his October 7, 2021 “mailbag” column. He had some lovely praise (highlighted below). It’s fantastic to see that a serious football journalist not only enjoys the series, but that he also gets it. These books operate on a couple of levels. You want surface-level, […]
Click here to get it: bit.ly/rookie-daily-deal What a huge deal for us! To kick off the NFL regular season, Audible tapped THE ROOKIE as the Daily Deal for Thursday, September 9. We’re honored, and we’re excited a ton of new fans will get to enjoy the GFL series for the first time.
First, COVID came for the XFL. Next, it looks ready to take out the 2020 seasons of the NFL and the CFL. While this pandemic is having a devastating affect on professional football, it’s heartwarming to see a professional footballer fight back against the disease. Dr. Myron Rolle played two seasons with the Tennessee Titans. […]
This is fun — a Green Bay Packers site from Vox Media cited the GFL as one of the ways for “fixing the NFL.” We’re honored! Read it here. The article dives into the concept of relegation, where, as season’s end, the worst teams get demoted to a lower tier, and the best teams in […]
Tyler Sigler is the nephew of Scott Sigler (that’s me!), author of the Galactic Football League series. Until this week, Tyler was a member of the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL. He was signed this year as an undrafted free agent safety out of Division III Wheaton College. He played in four NFL pre-season games […]
Advanced 3D-printing technology is being used to make new helmets. Well, helmet liners, anyway, but this is still ground-breaking stuff. Helmet manufacturer Riddell has teamed up with the company Carbon for a process that involves first scanning a player’s noggin, then 3D-printing seven custom, form-fitting helmet pads that perfectly fit said noggin. The NFL is the primary […]
In writing the GFL series, I wanted to find a way to keep the gridiron game real, as close to what we see on TV despite the fact that the stories are set 700 years in the future. What about bionic muscles? What about reinforced skeletons? What about souped-up scifi performance enhancing drugs (PEDs)? What […]
The Galactic Football League series features huge Humans, as well as other species. One of my goals in writing this series was to draw attention to just how big players are today are compared to, say, 50 years ago, then try to realistically project how that steady growth could produce absolute giants in the future. […]
Kiyaunata Goodwin is a large young man. He’s currently 6-foot-7, 370 pounds (200cm tall, 168 kilos). But wait, here’s the best part … He’s 14 years old. He’s in the eight grade. The eighth grade. That’s him in the picture at right, playing against a typical eight-grader. Pretty impressive, is it not? Here at the Galactic […]
Recently on StorySmack (a podcast hosted by me, Scott Sigler, and AB Kovacs), we covered the 20th anniversary of the scifi movie classic STARSHIP TROOPERS. Love it or hate it, this flick has endured as a lightning rod of science fiction cinema. One of the things that makes the movie stand out for me is […]