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"You're a lot better negotiator if you've got a really good player." He was sure he picked them up from the dry cleaner before he left for New Orleans on that weekend in 1997.
Those alliances also opened doors to movie premieres, concerts, the video game industry and many more things that keep his clients happy. Ministry in: New Orleans, LA St. Louis, MO Memphis, TN He would have too, had Stram not stopped him in his tracks and said "How much is it going to take?"
Tom Condon poses with clients Eli (l.) and Peyton Manning on day Eli is selected first overall in 2004 NFL draft. That experience was a huge help when he jumped into the agent business, first with Baltimore-based agent Tony Agnone, and later with former teammate Kendall Kremer. His first was Marinovich, the infamous "Robo QB" whose father had been grooming him to be an NFL QB from a very young age. So at that first meeting, Condon leaned on his knowledge of the draft process — and how to manipulate it.
(Chris Trotman/Getty Images) Tom Condon … The Chiefs offered Condon a $14,000 non-guaranteed salary and a $2,000 signing bonus as a rookie — a deal they assumed he would take without a fuss. "Then we realized 'If they were going to have a Pro Day and individual workouts, then shouldn't they prepare for it?" and blue jeans." And when he was recruiting players in his early agent years, he'd swing by Fuzzy's where Kremer would wow prospective clients with "bar tricks and jokes."
Tom Condon Tom Condon writes about urban and regional issues for the Mirror, including planning, transportation, land use, development and historic preservation. Want to contact Tom Condon? Because, Condon says, the one thing that has never changed in his business is that "players are attracted to getting free stuff. "I was supposed to meet him at 9 or 10 o'clock," Condon recalls in a recent rare and exclusive interview with the Daily News. Eventually, Peyton returned for his senior season, after which he hired Condon and was then drafted first overall in 1998 by the Indianapolis Colts. As Condon sees it, he's just doing the grunt work for the men behind him — and it's fine if they get most of the credit, too. Condon works for the biggest, glitziest agency in the business, yet he chose a spartan building in Nashville over their sparkling Hollywood office.
"It was always a tough guy on the team who was the player rep," Condon said, "because in those days, literally, the player rep's main responsibility was to go from player to player and have them write a check." So I just said, 'Well, $10,000 for the signing bonus.' . In Dominican Formation: A novice in Columbia, SC A student in Oakland, CA, and Atlanta. It doesn't make any difference how much money they have, if there's some free stuff, they want it."
His client list helped him forge a new partnership with CAA when he left IMG in 2006. I am a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Nashville, TN. Tom Condon poses with clients Eli (l.) and Peyton Manning on day Eli is selected first overall in 2004 NFL draft. "I didn't have any idea.