“We’d have rookies come in every year, and they’d all make the same mistakes and gripe about the same things,” Gross said in a phone interview. “It was late in the season one year and we were sick of complaints, so we decided to write a book about how to be behave, specific to the O-line room. Over the years it just kind of grew.”
Now, the notebook that was passed around the locker room has become a published work available for purchase on September 6. All-Pro center Ryan Kalil, former Panthers guard Geoff Hangartner and Gross are the proud trio of co-authors.