[jimbo123]

Leigh Steinberg, former super agent and inspiration for 'Jerry Maguire,' seeks Hollywood-like comeback from alcoholism

[Vendome]

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

Dude is kewel and an inspiration...

[traderrob6]

61 is exceptionally old to “become” an alcoholic but certainly conceivable as alcohol for some is truly devastatingly powerful.

[ken5050]

Glad for him that he's turned his life around. However, the agent business is greatly changed...Jay Z has stood it on its ear. More rappers are now becoming agents. Andrew Brandt..once was an agent...he gave it up when Ricky Williams asked him to work with Master P. Brandt quit, became an exec with the Packers, and Williams signed the worst contract ever in the history of the NFL. Brandt tells it all here in a two part story..a good read..

[God luvs America]

i’m in the football business and while i hope he recovers from his drinking and many excess problems Steinberg is known around the league and agent community as a complete tool....

true story; January, 2004- i’m in mobile, Alabama for Senior Bowl practices (as i am every January)....Steinberg brings his newest client, who’s ineligible to play in the Senior Bowl since he’s a junior, Ben Roethlisberger, to meet coaches, general managers and press palms....I’m talking to Steinberg on the sidelines telling him how much I like Roethlisberger and that I realized after he almost beat Ohio State in Columbus as a sophomore in 2002 I knew he was going to be a big time NFL prospect...Steinberg, who’s obviously under some sort of medication is telling me about the process of recruiting Roethlisberger..

“we have similar backgrounds” he says....at this point i expect him to tell me he (Steinberg) went to high school with Ben’s father, he knew his mother growing up, they lived in the same town, etc....Steinberg continues “we’re both eastern european Jews”.. i say to myself “WTF???!!!”..

to this day Roethlisberger’s present agents laugh at the story...

[texas booster]

A sad and devastating series of events, he says, had led Steinberg to the booze. He suffered as his father died a long death in 2004 from esophageal cancer, his marriage fell apart in 2006 and ended in divorce, his two sons were diagnosed with visual problems, he lost two homes in Newport Beach to mold after major storms — the roof collapsed on the second one, his $7 million dream house — and he had given away his agent practice to his associates.

[Vision]

Wheres the article?