Nyberg: Agent calls Super Bowl MVP "exemplary"

(WTNH) -- What's it like to be an NFL agent? Better yet, what's it like to be the agent representing the winning quarterback of Superbowl XLVII, Joe Flacco?
    
Ask Joe Linta of Branford, he's the guy about to do a deal that may be the richest in NFL history.
    
"So right now it's just an issue of them calling us and trying to work out something that's fair for us and hopefully fair for them," said Linta.

"Is he worth 100 million," asked News 8's Ann Nyberg.

"Oh yeah, well look is Tom Cruise worth 50 million for a picture? I mean, the numbers are crazy, I'm absolutely not worth what I make, but it's the market," Linta said. "It's really the market we're in, we're in the entertainment business and there are people in every facet of the entertainment business that are overpaid relative to what people on the outside think, but that's the market, is somebody playing a sport they paid for free for 15 years worth that kind of money? Nobody is, but that's the market,"Linta said.

How soon does this go down? How soon do you wrap this deal up," asked Nyberg.

"As soon as they give us what we think is right," Linta said.

NFL, I heard a player say at the Walter Camp Football Foundation dinner say NFL, not for long. So Joe is 28 years old, how many years does he have in him and do you start doing the math to what he's worth," Nyberg questioned.

"Well yeah that factors into it because when you do a deal of this magnitude, which could easily be the highest contract in history, you look at his body of work of what he's already done in the last five years and then you project out to what he's gonna do over the next five years," Linta said. "On both accounts he's exemplary."