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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 Smith



Previously 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?

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