Andrew

Holy shit.

Somehow the worst is yet to come.

So join us for part two tomorrow in which, question mark, there seems to be good evidence of the NFL paying a guy specifically to be able to keep control of the union.

Oh, dear.

So if you want to find more of Charles McDonald's work, you can do so at the Football 301 podcast and at Yahoo Sports, where he writes the column for Verts.

It's quite good.

You should listen to it.

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about the most unhinged union story I have ever covered.

I am your host, Mia Wong.

And in a moment, we will return to my interview with Yahoo Sports journalist Charles McDonald.

So if you have not listened to the last episode, you should listen to the last episode so we can get you up to the 2020s in terms of the horrifying and depressing story of the NFL Players Association's leadership gradually selling out more and more of their players.

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.