How to Become a Pro Football Manager
The general manager of a pro football team has many responsibilities. These include, but are not limited to, hiring, re-assigning and/or firing players, making sure salary caps are being complied with and transferring players between the minor league teams and major league teams. Here's a guide on how to become a pro football manager.
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Instructions
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Use sports publications, online job search engines and other resources to determine which teams have openings for general managers. Do this at the end of the previous pro football season and the beginning of the spring training portion of the current pro football season (see Resources below).
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Apply to any openings--not necessarily just for general manager--that a pro football team may have. In this way, if you are hired, you will at least be in a position to move up.
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While waiting for interview opportunities, do some research on the team and league for which you are seeking employment.
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Follow the usual guidelines for having a successful interview—be properly attired and on time, and have all of the documentation that will be needed (and any that you think may be needed).
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If other job openings are mentioned during the interview, even those for which you may not have applied, express interest in any for which you feel you are qualified. If employers see that you are willing to be flexible, they may just have a position for you.
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Tips & Warnings
Subscribe to as many sports publications as possible, and obtain access to all-sports channels on TV and radio as well as the sports sections of different newspapers across the country, especially those in cities that have a major league team (such as Nashville and Tampa).
If you were a pro football player in the past, this will be an asset. If not, having a degree in Business, Accounting, Management or other related field will certainly help, as a general manager is expected to be a “jack-of-all-trades.”
Be prepared to spend long hours away from your family and hometown, especially during the pro football season.
Be prepared to see and possibly have to respond to negative publicity, especially if the team begins to experience a decline after you have been hired. It may not necessarily be your fault that this is happening, but you will be the first one they mention, since you are “new kid on the block.”
