Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.

And I'm Laura Owens.

And joining us on this episode is Lee Steinberg, who is known as one of the greatest sports agents in history and the real-life inspiration for the film Jerry McGuire.

Lee has represented the number one pick in the NFL draft, a record setting eight times and has negotiated well over $3 billion in contract deals for his clients, including Patrick Mahomes, Steve Young,

Troy Aikman, and Oscar De La Jolla.

And while Lee's life has been filled with some unbelievable highs, he's also had some high-profile

struggles, which he writes about in his book, The Agent, by 40-year career making deals

and changing the game.

Lee, thank you so much for joining us. We really have been looking so forward to talking

with you today. Oh, it's my pleasure. So how did you become a sports agent?

I was going to University of California, Berkeley, at a very tumultuous time in our history. And I was

student body president when Ronald Reagan was governor. And we would go out and protest. He would

crack down. Anyway, I learned everything I ever needed to know about negotiating from dealing

with governor than President Reagan.

I was a grad counselor in an undergraduate dorm, working my way through law school,

and they moved the freshman football team into the dorm,

and one of those students ended up being the quarterback Steve Bartkowski.

And so I graduated from law school in 73, took a year and a half off to travel around the

world, and it got to be early 1975, and Steve Bartkowski had been the very first player

selected in the first round of the National Football League draft,

and it was a big blue-eyed blonde from my alma mater.

And he asked me to represent them.

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