In an interview with Sactown Magazine, he recalls the influence of the baseball team's manager, Bob Lemon, who taught Yee that he shouldn't "pay attention to what others think.
[5] Yee went to college at UCLA, during which he interned at Sacramento's KFBK radio station as a producer for a nightly sports talk show.
[6] Yee decided to become a sports agent in 1988, which the Sacramento Bee described as a long shot, similar to someone "marching into Hollywood hopeful his manuscript would be snatched up".
His big break came in 1999, when he signed Tom Brady, a senior at University of Michigan who went on to spend more than 20 years as an NFL quarterback for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Analysts pointed out a potential conflict of interest, given that both Brady and Garoppolo were quarterbacks on the same team, citing NFLPA and the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
In 2002, he advocated eliminating the NFL draft, saying that all it does is "help unproven players establish a market value when they've contributed nothing to the league and their production is speculative at best".