What NFL Owners Don't Want You To Know

EPISODE 202: A sitdown with Don Van Natta.

There are two kinds of news:

1. The stuff that powerful people want you to find out

2. The stuff they don’t

Don Van Natta — three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize — is a master of the latter.

Don’s currently reporting an unauthorized biography of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. He famously profiled NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, without Goodell’s participation. At ESPN, he’s investigated pretty much all of the most powerful people in pro football, often with Seth Wickersham.

And so, at the height of Super Bowl week — and at the end of a season that I’ve watched more than any other — I wanted to sit with Don, in Miami, to find out what power really looks like inside the single most powerful institution in American culture.

Why it all feels like an episode of Succession.

And how a group that calls itself The Membership navigated a series of crises, a decade ago, that seemed to threaten their existence.

DKN/YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Hoggily,

Pablo