PTFO Exclusive: We Followed the Money in the NFL Union Scandal. So Did the FBI.

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Dan Le Batard

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4.9 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As the NFL returns, Pablo and Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio are back with more secret documents, a federal investigation, new government names, billions of union dollars, an O.J. Simpson parking space, the world’s largest strip club... and one big "clusterf*ck." Does the OneTeam Partners saga connect to a Game of Thrones-style power play by the NFLPA's shadow boss? Or could the feds be on the trail of an even bigger scandal? • Part One: The NFL's Secret Collusion Case, Revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P42Wq3fmTYg • Part Two: We Got Another Secret Union Document — and Smoked Out Another Cover-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P42Wq3fmTYg • Read our latest NFL document on Pablo's subscribers-only newsletter: https://www.pablo.show/subscribe • Pre-order "Big Shield" by Mike Florio https://www.amazon.com/Big-Shield-Mike-Florio-ebook/dp/B0FGH43V6D • Ex-NFLPA boss Howell's strip club expenses sent to investigator (Don Van Natta Jr. and Kalyn Kahler) https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45703132/nflpa-nfl-agreed-keep-collusion-findings-secret • "If he failed, their process failed": Inside the NFLPA meltdown (Don Van Natta Jr. and Kalyn Kahler) https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45800610/inside-nflpa-executive-director-lloyd-howell-tenure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:07.2	Journalism sucks.
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0:48.1	This is an emergency episode, Mike.
0:50.5	I don't know how else to put it.
0:52.4	Yes, straighten up your back.
0:53.8	I'm coming to you from home.
0:54.9	I have the sheaf of documents still with me.
0:58.5	And I was worried at the outset of like,
1:01.9	do we really do a third episode
1:03.3	about the biggest crisis in the history
1:04.8	of the NFL Players Association?
1:06.3	And yes, fuck yes is the answer.
1:08.8	Yeah, I went through the same thing.
1:11.1	The first one went over so well.
1:13.9	The second one, in a roundabout way,
1:16.8	contributed to some pretty serious action on the back end.
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