Hypocrisy, Scandal, and the NFL Machine
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Dan Bernstein Unfiltered, Dan examines the growing image problem facing the NFL — and why the league continues to count on fans looking the other way once the games kick off.
0:00 the NFL
26:00 Dave McGinnis
41:50 Dick Vitale
47:30 Chicago Cubs
50:30 Italian Dressing
From the ongoing Dianna Russini–Mike Vrabel situation, to Troy Aikman’s potential conflict of interest as both broadcaster and team consultant, to renewed scrutiny of Steve Tisch’s documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the league seems eager to let controversy fade into the background until football distracts the public once again. Dan argues that, ultimately, we’re all complicit — criticizing the NFL while continuing to live and breathe it like nothing else in American culture.
Dan also reflects on the life of former NFL coach Dave McGinnis and one of the strangest episodes in Bears history: a head coaching hire that was announced before it was finalized, only for McGinnis to walk away from the organization he truly loved.
Plus, how is the Cubs’ season projecting now that it’s roughly one‑tenth complete? We dig into the numbers using Baseball Reference.
We wrap up on a lighter note with a look at The Washington Post’s ranking of the top 12 store-bought Italian dressings, which leads to one clear conclusion: just make it yourself at home.
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| 0:45.3 | The NFL has a lot it needs to clean up. |
| 0:48.2 | I mean, we can probably say that at any time. |
| 0:50.8 | But in this particular case with what the NFL is watching, it's got to come up with |
| 0:55.5 | some kind of better standard than they have of their various policies on various behaviors. |
| 1:02.1 | Because I just want to do a quick reset on where the NFL is right now on some important things. |
| 1:07.5 | We've talked a lot about the unfolding situation with Diana Rusini of the athletic. |
| 1:13.6 | And there's a sub-question there too about are we supposed to say the athletic of the New York Times or are we supposed to say the athletic? |
| 1:22.6 | Because apparently there's some infighting already going on at the New York Times, that there is sort of this loose confederation of groups that is the New York Times right now, and that there are some, there's a lot of finger pointing going on with the entire aspect as a news organization. |
| 1:38.6 | But I want to make sure that the league, where it has its own jurisdiction jurisdiction is over the behavior of one of its most |
| 1:48.8 | prominent head coaches the behavior of Mike Vrable and what is okay what he should and |
| 1:56.5 | shouldn't be doing so I do think that we're going to have to talk about this. While the league |
| 2:04.7 | is playing dumb about Steve Tisch, one of the primary owners of the New York Giants, where he has |
| 2:14.1 | admitted that, oh, of course, I exchange a lot of emails of Jeffrey Epstein, and Jeffrey Epstein set me up with all of these women at one point. We had all of these lewd conversations about these various women and whether or not they were considered professionals. Were they trafficked? I don't know, but I don't think so. And they were all adults and everything was fine. It's all fine. |
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