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Walking into the headquarters of Investment Mortgage International Inc., Young and his agent, Leigh Steinberg, entered a world of ostentatious wealth: Italian marble floors, Brazilian rosewood paneling, Chinese antiques, a gigantic gold gong. An electric sign blinked the words WELCOME, STEVE YOUNG, QUARTERBACK EXTRAORDINAIRE!...The two men had come to San Francisco to finish negotiating the richest contract in the history of team sports at that time. [William] Oldenburg owned the Los Angeles Express of the fledgling U.S. Football League, and he wanted to snatch Young before the NFL could get him.

--From "Young and the Restless" by Peter King, Sports Illustrated, May 31, 1993

Photograph by Richard Mackson

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