<P> In some sports there are traditions in which rookies must do things, or tricks are played on them . Examples in baseball include players having to dress up in very strange costumes, or getting hit in the face with a cream pie; a traditional rookie's "hazing" procedure in American football involves taping players to a goalpost and dousing them with ice water, Gatorade, and other substances . </P> <P> In Major League Baseball, the MLB has cracked down on hazing by enacting an Anti-Hazing and Anti-Bullying Policy which prohibits players from dressing up as the opposite sex, or wearing offensive costumes based on race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, and gender identify . </P> <P> In the National Football League a rookie is any player who is in their first season in the NFL . The NFL awards the best rookie with the Associated Press NFL Rookie of the Year Award, as voted upon the Associated Press . In the NFL, rookies have special contract rules which limit how much a team can pay them as well as limiting the length of the contract, as per stipulations laid out in the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement . </P> <P> In NASCAR, rookies are denoted by a yellow stripe on the rear bumper of the car that is placed on both sides of the name or symbol of the manufacturer of the car . </P>

When are you not considered a rookie in the nfl
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