By 6am on Monday, the dressing rooms of the Bankstown Bulls Junior Rugby League Club will have transformed.
There will be NFL paraphernalia, a big-screen television, food trucks stationed nearby and cameras everywhere.
Classes at Condell Park High School have even been cancelled for the day.
Students, teammates, friends and fans will all be there for one man: Jordan Mailata.
The Condell Park High graduate from south-western Sydney is set to play for the Philadelphia Eagles when they take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, one of the world's biggest sporting spectacles.
On Monday, hundreds are expected to turn up to the 25-year-old's junior club: an estimated 200 million viewers will tune in across the world.
"We're definitely throwing our support behind him. The area is proud of him," said Mailata's junior teammate Daniel Hadchiti.
"It's a big inspiration, coming from Bankstown. We have a lot of players at the Bulls make the NRL, which of course we're proud of.
"But when you get someone in the NFL, let alone the Super Bowl, it's obviously a big feat … and it's a big inspiration for the kids that are at the Bulls and those who I'm sure will be coming to the Bulls."
Five years ago, Mailata had only watched the Super Bowl for Beyoncé's half-time show and now he has a chance to win a championship ring and become just the second Australian to do so after Jesse Williams achieved the feat with the Seattle Seahawks in 2013.
"If they can get a ring big enough for him," laughed Hadchiti, referring to the size of Mailata, who stands at an imposing 203 centimetres and weighs 166 kilograms.
From NRL reject to Super Bowl stardom
After Mailata left the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2018 — it was thought his frame was too cumbersome for the NRL — a highlights tape of the "human wrecking ball" piqued the interest of NFL scouts.
They took a gamble and Mailata was eventually drafted with the Eagles' 233rd overall pick.
Despite the Hollywood transformation from rugby league reject to the Super Bowl stage, those who knew Mailata as a Bull say he has never forgotten where he came from.
"To Jordan's credit, he's the type of person that doesn't shy away paying homage to his background and his roots," said Bankstown Bulls president Ali Mehanna.
"The fact that he continuously calls himself a Bulls junior just makes us feel great about the situation."
Mailata's stardom has created a buzz at the Bulls.
"There is a lot of kids and players who have burning questions about Jordan. They want to see photos of him. Even parents asking, 'Is this the club that Jordan came from?'," said Mehanna.
"So it has had impact on interest in the club, definitely."
The Bulls have proudly bred NRL players such as Marcelo Montoya and Ryan Matterson, but Mailata — the son of Samoan migrants — is a "special case".
"This is a young guy from a very low-socio-economic part of Sydney where opportunity is not as welcoming as most parts of Sydney," explained Mehanna.
"For him to go from being a local junior to arguably one of the biggest superstars in the Super Bowl … it's leaps and bounds ahead of the success that we've seen."
Siposs a chance for Super Bowl success
Mailata is not the only Australian vying for Super Bowl glory, with former AFL player Arryn Siposs hoping to line up alongside Mailata for the Eagles.
Delisted from St Kilda in 2015 after 28 senior matches, the Melburnian has made his name as a punter, rising from college football to the highest level in the NFL.
Siposs, 30, is recovering from a serious ankle injury he sustained in December but has declared himself fit and ready to go should he be selected.
"What a big occasion," said Nathan Chapman from Prokick Australia, a gridiron academy that helped Siposs make the transition into a punter.
"We're really proud to have helped Arryn go through his journey and get him to college and to where he's at right now."
Both Siposs and Mailata have natural talent — a booming right foot, and incredible strength and power respectively — but Chapman praised the pair's ability to make use of it through hard work.
"Jordan learnt the craft … took his time and the belief, work ethic has paid off," Chapman said.
"He's blossomed and has obviously become one of the most feared players in the league."
"[Jordan] Will open up so many doors for scouts to go to Australia and keep finding the talent that there is out there.
"There is some serious talent in Australia, [we've] just got to keep finding a way to get them to the US."
Chapman said Siposs and Mailata had unique stories of success and show that anyone could chase a dream.
"I really think with a couple of franchises and the Eagles being in Australia now, it opens up so many more conversations and gets young men into the game," he said.
