The league held its first rookie symposium the following summer.

The comparisons were flying earlier this month at the N.F.L.'s four-day rookie symposium, one of the best orientation seminars in professional sports.

He cycled through agents and skipped a mandatory rookie symposium.

At the rookie symposium in late June, one player lost a $10,000 platinum chain, just one of many pieces of jewelry he was wearing.

We went to a rookie symposium.

The subject was covered at the rookie symposium this off-season, Aiello added, and during conference calls with all head coaches last week.

Leaf was the only player to walk out of the rookie symposium the National Football League holds for its first-year players, leaving several days early.

The league is monitoring the situation, expecting Leaf to file a grievance, as he did after being fined for leaving the rookie symposium.

Aiello said the league might target its rookie symposium, which all incoming players must attend, as a way to promote tolerance.

First, he missed the league-sponsored rookie symposium this month that is arguably the best program in sports aimed at teaching life skills to its new players.