DeMaurice Smith
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756 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jul
DeMaurice Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The goal was we're going to renegotiate these rights.
We've already opted out of the collective bargaining agreement.
It's going to end.
On a certain date in March of 2011, we're going to lock the players out because we want three things.
We want the players to play a 17th and an 18th game for free.
We want to take away their pensions, and we want to cut 20% of their salaries.
So the league knew that no one is going to walk into a negotiation room and go, hey, you know, that's the best deal I've ever heard.
So what do they do?
They go to the networks and they literally fund themselves so that in the event that there is no football.
No games.
No games for the season of 2011.
They will have $4 billion to service the debt on their stadiums.
And let's take everybody a giant step back.
Man, 2009 to 2011 was after the Great Recession.
You couldn't borrow $4 million, let alone $4 billion.
But they knew that they could leverage the networks in giving them the money because the networks need to have NFL football.
And we talk about how clever they are.
The only reason I started down this road and another lawyer from Latham & Watkins started down this road, because Jerry Jones bragged that they had $4 billion to lock the players out.
Lehman Brothers is gone.
Bear Stearns is gone.
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