Extremely arrogant NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus will be profiled on “60 Minutes”. The Master Manipulator of the Media, NFL General Managers and Players will be seen playing up to the cameras during a feature that will be hosted by CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley. Rosenhaus who has used the media to help get a client a better contract, draft position or a perk, will tell Pelley that he’s a Golden God or something to that effect.
The man who has an overblown sense of ego will be seen negotiating, lecturing, cajoling and berating General Managers on behalf of his clients. It’s all on “60 Minutes” following the NFL on CBS.
“THE NFL WOULD FALL APART WITHOUT ME” — JUST ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL FROM PRO FOOTBALL’S COCKSURE AGENT DREW ROSENHAUS — “60 MINUTES”
60 MINUTES Cameras Capture the Agent as he Fights for His Clients
Call him a cockroach, a thief, a sleaze ball – he’s heard it all before and none of them is true, says pro football agent Drew Rosenhaus. He does not steal clients. Just don’t call him inconsequential, because this wheeler-dealer who represents more NFL players than any other agent says the league would surely “fall apart” without him. Scott Pelley profiles Rosenhaus on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Oct. 9 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
“I really believe that the NFL would fall apart without me,” says Rosenhaus. “That may sound cocky, that may sound arrogant, but I am telling you the truth.”
Rosenhaus says he keeps the NFL “running smoothly.” “When it breaks down between the team and the player, the agent is there to pick up those pieces,” he tells Pelley. He keeps the peace. “If a guy says ‘I want to be traded; I hate this team. I hate this coach.’ I say to the player, ‘Tell me, don’t tell the coach. I don’t want you to ruin your relationship with the team. Come to me,’” says Rosenhaus.
And they do. Who takes “a couple hundred “calls a day, at all hours? Rosenhaus. Who gives his players advice about all things, on or off the field? Rosenhaus. Who loves his players? Rosenhaus.
He’ll even come visit them if they’re ever in jail. “There’s nothing, nothing tougher than that,” he tells Pelley. Just ask Plaxico Burress, the receiver who went to prison for accidentally shooting himself in a crowded nightclub with an illegal pistol. “I didn’t expect anything less [from Rosenhaus]. Because…I know him as a person and you know where his heart is,” Burress tells Pelley.
Not far from Rosenhaus’ heart is his wallet, which nets 3 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts he negotiates for clients. 60 MINUTES cameras watch and listen as he earns those millions by jousting with several NFL team executives on a typical day: “What you’re offering is just a joke…The concussion is a thing of the past – on top of that he has a new helmet!…Come on, you’re killing me here…You’re taking a huge risk by letting me get off the phone, because when I get off the phone I am calling another team…”
60 Minutes will air on CBS sometime after 7:15/6:15 p.m. in the Eastern and Central time zones, but at its regular time in the Mountain and Pacific areas.
