Andrew

And in this episode, we're going to really sort of get down to the brass tacks of what's been happening in the 2020s and answering the question, to what extent has the NFL paid in order to have a pro-management regime installed at the head of the union?

A question that is really distressingly, we have good evidence of this.

But before we can get to that, we need to talk about one of the other absolutely horrifying things that this union regime has done.

And that is the union covering up, as reported by Pablo Torre originally, a report by an arbitration judge about whether or not the independent teams in the NFL, which are supposed to be businesses competing against each other.

And I kind of emphasize this enough because this is a major portion of how

The NFL's antitrust exemption is supposed to work is that these teams are normally competing against each other.

So there is supposed to be a labor market with competition.

But this document that the union covered up from an arbitration process they were in is about it has very good evidence of the league actively colluding in order to pay players less.

And the union covered it up.

So here we go back to our interview.

Let's talk about this collusion thing, because I've been losing my fucking mind about this for a really long time.

And I cannot imagine just literally having evidence in your hand that the owners are colluding against your members.

Like these are literally you like this is supposed to be you and you're just hiding the report.

Okay, so even if you lose the arbitration, the fact that a judge wrote in a legal document that it was beyond the benefit of a doubt that Roger Goodell and the 32 owners were colluding.

We've seen text messages.

Between the Cardinals owner and the Chargers owner talking about how much to pay Justin Herbert.

Yep.

Lamar Jackson.

Yeah.

Okay, can we explain the Lamar Jackson situation and explain who Lamar Jackson is for people who don't watch football so they can understand how unhinged this is?