From the Twitter account of NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah comes one of the more surprising developments of the week.
Rob London, a failed candidate for NFLPA executive director and self-styled “super agent” who is’t certified by the NFLPA to represent players in contract negotiations, currently is delivering the keynote address at the Harvard Law School Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law.
“NFL Super Agent Rob London will examine the NFLPA election process and tackle CBA Issues,” the announcement states. “Anna’s Taqueria will be served.”
Says Atallah: “I’m just gonna leave this here and say Harvard Law School students will at least get Anna’s Taqueria.”
In Harvard’s defense, they’ve possibly dubbed London a “super agent” based merely on his claim that he is one -- a contention appearing in a 2013 Bleacher Report profile during which London also is described as being “in final consideration for four NFL General Manager positions in 2011 and 2012.”
Apparently, the Raiders did indeed consider him for the gig in 2011. In 2012, a Charlotte City Council member floated London’s name as a candidate for the Panthers G.M. job. Still, if London were a genuine candidate to run an NFL team (despite no apparent experience as a scout or administrator) in 2011 and 2012, he surely would have received serious consideration somewhere else since then, given that there’s significant turnover in the front-office ranks every year.
London instead made a run at becoming the NFLPA executive director a year ago, one of many candidates who failed to gain any traction at all.
But at least London is a “super agent.” Even though he’s not an agent in the classic, NFLPA sense. Possibly because he never applied to be an agent in the classic, NFLPA sense. Or possibly because he never passed the test that all prospective NFLPA agents must take. (Apparently, London is a marketing representative, an “agent” in a very broad sense.)
Either way, he has now delivered the Keynote Address at the Harvard Law School Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law. Plus Anna’s Taqueria.
