Star sports agent on the NFL’s response to CTE (2013 interview) | FRONTLINE

The inspiration for the movie character “Jerry Maguire,” Leigh Steinberg is a former sports agent who once represented NFL stars such as Troy Aikman and Steve Young. In the 1990s, he organized conferences to educate his clients about the risks of concussions. He spoke to FRONTLINE’s Jim Gilmore on March 29, 2013. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Donate to FRONTLINE now: https://bit.ly/47DFzCb And support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate Leigh Steinberg's interview was conducted for our 2013 documentary, "League of Denial," and is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Read more about this project here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/ab... "League of Denial" is available to watch here:    • League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Cri...   Explore more of our extended interviews in this playlist:    • The FRONTLINE Interviews   #LeighSteinberg #Football #Interview Subscribe on YouTube:    / pbsfrontline   Sign up for our newsletter: https://frontline.org/newsletter Instagram:   / frontlinepbs   Facebook:   / frontline   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/frontlinepbs... FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.