Pablo Torre Finds Out

The Man Who (Relentlessly) Sued the NFL Has Receipts: A Sitdown with DeMaurice Smith

April 28, 2026·58 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Secret salary caps. Accidental email attachments. Truth-serum texts from owners. Slide decks for ESPN. If anyone knows how to dork-out on billionaires taking your money — and documenting their greed — it's the former NFL Players Association boss who negotiated $100 billion for athletes... and sued the sh*t out of The Shield. With his union now plagued by scandal — and America as unregulated as ever — De Smith enters the studio in Gladiator Mode.• Read "Turf Wars" by DeMaurice SmithPreviously on PTFO:• Part I: The NFL's Secret Collusion Case, Revealed• Part II: We Sparked an NFL Union Crisis. Here's the Sequel.• Part III: We Followed the Money in the NFL Union Scandal. So Did the FBI.• Part IV: We Investigated the Hollywood Cover-Up the NFLPA Ignored • Part V: The Silenced Top Cop and the Cabal of "Strip-Club Dreams"• Plus: The State of the (NFL) Union, with Mike Florio• The Sporting Class: Are NFL Players Ready to Strike? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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