Leigh Steinberg
Leigh Steinberg
Leigh William Steinbergis an American sports agent. During his 41-year career, Steinberg has represented over 300 professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and Olympic sports. He has represented the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft a record eight times, a milestone unmatched within the sports industry. Steinberg is later credited as the real life inspiration of the sports agent from Cameron Crowe's film Jerry Maguire in 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 March 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Even though it?s a flawed system, the fact we have labor peace has created this incredible era of prosperity for everybody involved. If we pull the genie out of that bottle (by abolishing the cap), I don?t know that it ever comes back.
It is not in your interest to pull one over on the other side and get them to make a bad deal. You want the situation to be justifiable and reasonable while getting what you want. The two of you might be doing deals in the future.
Our field has exploded. More games being shown on television means more shows to comment on those games, which means more periodicals, more advertising, and an incredible number of new jobs created.
Matt is a dominating franchise quarterback who should be picked at the top of the first round.
Without referring to anybody directly, one of the problems with confrontational public negotiating is that it runs the risk of alienating a public with a median family income of $35,000. So that when a player is complaining publicly that he's only being paid $7-million a year instead of $9-million, a fan can look at that with real anger. And an owner who's challenged publicly may simply become more locked in and less apt to ever compromise.
When Ricky is using drugs, he tells the whole world about it. He's not a liar.
We can always find creative ways to do things. But I hope by draft time we will be beyond that. As teams peer into the abyss, as they peer into the apocalypse, sanity will return. When the NFLPA and management truly recognize the nature of no agreement, their intelligence and rationality will force them into making a deal.
We didn't sign any long-term national product commitments because we were hoping what happened would happen.
The Redskins have done an excellent job of restructuring a number of contracts in anticipation of a deal (on the agreement) not being consummated.
I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.
He was disappointed, but he's pretty resolute that he wants to play football. He's only 28. At the end of the year, he'll only be 29. He is still intent on having a career in the National Football League.
He would love to play in New York.
Assuming that something like this happened, an appeal would have been filed. In the best case, that appeal would probably not have been heard until April, but now that all this information is out, it's impossible to know what might happen. I would be blown away if Ricky Williams used drugs, and that's how most of the people around him also feel.
No one wants to be the butcher that kills the golden goose; it's simply too irrational not to solve this.