Before Leigh Steinberg gained great reputation as “Real Jerry Maguire”, he was already a familiar name among sports enthusiasts, representing professional athletes such as the ancient quarters of the NFL Troy Aikman and Steve Young, as well as the defensive winger Bruce Smith, in the 1980s.
In 1996, Hollywood star Tom Cruise portrayed Steinberg in the comedy drama “Jerry Maguire”, alongside Renée Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr., among others, in a story that has mapped the situational representation of the best talents in the Cutthroat industries like the NFL and the MLB.
“I think he humanized sports agents in the mind of the public and showed that there were care that is going on,” Steinberg told PK Press Club Digital of the classic film, which raised more than $ 150 million at the box office.
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Leigh Steinberg is the Kansas City quarter-back star agent, the quarter-Arrière Patrick Mahomes and launched the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to raise awareness and education in sports brain. (Michael Tran / Getty Images)
“The image of the agents was not the best.”
Undoubtedly one of the most targeted films of the 1990s, “Jerry Maguire” presents emblematic lines like “You Had Me at Hello” and “You Complete Me”.
However, there is a sentence of four words that resonates so deep with the film fans and Steinberg that they ask him, without fault, to deliver him in person.
“Whenever I cross an airport or dine, even after 26 years, someone goes to the table or runs to me at an airport and shouts four words -” Show me the money! “”, Said Steinberg.
During a one-minute scene, Cruise’s juxtaposition, stressed in a stifling office, and households, shirtless, dancing in his kitchen, shouting “Show me the money!” In both directions, provided with viewers a comic and pivot arc in the film.
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Steinberg told PK Press Club Digital that Tom Cruise, who portrayed him in the 1996 film “Jerry Maguire”, did “exceptional” work.
“I thought he had done exceptional work,” said Steinberg about the representation of Cruise. “Cameron Crowe is a gifted director.”
During the shooting, Steinberg told PK Press Club Digital that he had taken Gooding to the Super Bowl XXX to Phoenix and that he “pretends to him that he was a large receiver for a whole week”.
“He had to claim that I was his agent,” said Steinberg.
Today, Steinberg, 76, continues to represent athletes, including the star quarter of the Chiefs of Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes. In addition, Steinberg devotes himself to the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to educate and increase information on the risks of sports strokes and finance the prophylactic treatment of concussion and healing of the communioned brain.
Cuba Gooding Jr. played the fictitious Large Fictive receiver Rodwell in the 1996 comedy drama. Steinberg said that the actor had marked with him at the Super Bowl XXX in Phoenix during the shooting. (Johnny Nunez)
“I was very involved in restoring the responsibility of an agent, and I think that a party is to take care of the health of a player,” said Steinberg.
