Why Does President Donald Trump Hate the NFL?

This week, the owner of the Jaguars, Shad Khan, who donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration, said something publicly about the president that many owners and others across football have been saying privately for months.

"Let's get real," Khan told Jarrett Bell of USA Today. "The attacks on Muslims, the attacks on minorities, the attacks on Jews. I think the NFL doesn't even come close to that on the level of being offensive. Here, it's about money, or messing with—trying to soil a league or a brand that he's jealous of."

This claim—that the president's jealousy of the league lies at the root of his NFL attacks—is one that's been repeated to me dozens of times by a bevy of owners,…