Tom Condon's Unique Approach Helped Usher In New Era Of Superagents

CAA's Tom Condon is a "career grunt turned dealmaker who for 30 years has been coming up with new and unusual ways to make" NFL owners pay, according to a profile by Paul Solotaroff of MEN'S JOURNAL. He is now the "king of the sport's third column of power: a caste of superagents who write blockbuster contracts and bend the collective-bargaining pact in balloon-animal shapes." There are "roughly 800 agents credentialed" by the NFLPA to "rep draft-eligible kids, and though the big-gun firms -- David Dunn's Athletes First, Joel Segal's Lagardère Unlimited -- do something similar for their clients, Condon did it first and does it better, covering every conceivable angle." An industry source said, "Tom's one of three guys in the entire business who does things the right way every time." Solotaroff notes Condon is "far from winding down," and, in fact, is "bent on expansion." He "plans to staff up" his new office in L.A., but will eventually "hand the reins to his agent son Tommy" (MEN'S JOURNAL, 5/'15 issue).