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How ‘super agent’ for Brady and Garoppolo got his start as a batboy in Sacramento

Don Yee has brokered contracts and argued on behalf of athletes few recognize or remember, and some impossible to forget.

He is Tom Brady’s agent, if that name rings a bell.

A Sacramento native, Yee will be attending another Super Bowl on Sunday, anxiously watching as Brady aims to win his sixth Lombardi Trophy with the New England Patriots against the Philadelphia Eagles. Yee on Friday left the warmth of Los Angeles, where he lives and works, for the chill of Minnesota, where he will seamlessly blend into the crowd. A man deemed by national media outlets as an “uber-agent” or a “super agent” insists that none of this is about him.