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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And that was designed by both Paul Tagliabue, the former commissioner, and Gene Upshaw, my predecessor, to basically urge both sides that we don't want to get to this fail-safe point because bad things happen.
So the bad thing that would happen at expiration for the owners by contract
by contract was that there would be no salary cap in 2010.
And the idea there was it was designed to scare the owners to death that all the high market teams would outspend the low market teams.
There would be chaos.
So the idea of no salary cap in 2010 was to urge owners to get a deal done before 2011.
The bad thing on the player side was that if we reach expiration, there will be no benefits.
paid to players.
Right.
No 401ks, no healthcare benefits.
All of the benefits packages were suspended in the uncapped year.
And that's what we called it, the uncapped year.
So we go through the uncapped year in 2010, and I've just been elected in 2009.
We know we're going to head into a lockout because Jerry Jones and everybody has said so.
Oh, 100%.
It should be.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no, there's a target on everybody's... Man and beast are merely just... Are joined together for the ultimate showdown.
Yeah, no, it was supposed to be an absolute epic.
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