‘The world of football and sports is sort of the Disneyland of drinking’

When the man known as ‘The Real Jerry Maguire’ appears on a Zoom call from his office in Newport Beach, California, this week, he is surrounded by shiny picture frames and various memorabilia. Leigh Steinberg has worked for five decades as a sports agent, particularly in the NFL and most notably with franchise quarterbacks. He doesn’t need to do celebrity name-dropping; the evidence is all around him.