How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 2
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Mia finishes her interview with Yahoo Sports writer Charles McDonald with the disturbing realization that the NFL might have paid a guy to keep the current leadership in power.
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| 0:46.4 | Welcome to It Could Happen here, a podcast about the most unhinged Union story I have ever covered. |
| 0:56.0 | 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 |
| 1:00.3 | episode so we can get you up to the 2020s in terms of the horrifying and depressing story |
| 1:08.5 | of the NFL Players Association's leadership, |
| 1:13.1 | gradually selling out more and more of their players. |
| 1:17.0 | And in this episode, we're going to really sort of get down to the brass tax |
| 1:22.8 | of what's been happening in the 2020s and answering the question, |
| 1:30.8 | to what extent has the NFL paid in order to have a pro-management regime installed at the head of the union? |
| 1:36.5 | A question that is really distressingly, we have good evidence of this. |
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