Like a lot of 20-something American guys, Brett Kollmann loved to talk football. So in early 2017, he decided, with the support of his then-girlfriend, to quit his job as a production assistant at NFL Network in Los Angeles to make football-focused YouTube videos full-time.
“I didn’t make any money for my first year,” Kollmann told TheWrap. “My girlfriend and I slept on an air mattress in an office at her parent’s house.”
Things have changed since then.
Kollmann’s YouTube channel ...