Aaron Maybin: "Athletes aren't superheroes, we're human beings"
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
After four years as a professional linebacker for football teams in the U.S. and Canada, Aaron Maybin put down his helmet and picked up a range of new hats off the gridiron. As a public school teacher, artist, and activist, Maybin's best days are still yet to come. Aaron Maybin joins Edge of Sports for a wide-ranging conversation on the boxes athletes get placed in, racism within the NFL, and his life after football.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by the Nation magazine. |
| 0:05.3 | You got to check out all the Nation magazine podcasts. |
| 0:08.6 | They are incredible. |
| 0:11.1 | This week on the Edge of Sports podcast, we've got an interview with arts activist slash former NFL player Aaron Mabin. |
| 0:19.0 | It is a recording that we did as part of my new Edge of Sports TV show |
| 0:23.3 | over at the Real News Network. Please check it out. It is amazing. We start right now. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey, welcome to Edge of Sports, the TV show, only on the Real News Network. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Dave Ziren, and this week we have a former NFL player who left the sport to become a teacher, an artist, and a person of great importance to the city of Baltimore, Aaron Maven. |
| 0:52.9 | I also have words about the passing of legendary |
| 0:55.6 | athlete, actor, and organizer Jim Brown, and what there is to learn from his fierce, tangled life. |
| 1:02.9 | But first, let's talk to an author, an artist, an organizer, a teacher, and oh, by the way, a |
| 1:10.0 | former NFL player, his name is Aaron Maven. |
| 1:17.2 | Aaron Maven. Yes, sir. Great to have you on the show, man. It's an honor to be here, man. I feel |
| 1:22.9 | like this is long overdue. Absolutely. I mean, I want to talk to you about your work. I want to talk |
| 1:27.2 | to you about your writing. I want to talk to you about your work. I want to talk to you about your writing. |
| 1:28.2 | I want to talk to you about Baltimore. |
| 1:30.2 | But I got to start with the question that I bet my viewers want to know the answer to. |
| 1:35.6 | Look, people drive themselves into the floor, sometimes into a grave to make the National Football League. |
| 1:42.7 | But the life clearly did not appeal to you. And I want to ask you |
| 1:47.4 | why. And I want to ask you if you miss any of it. Wow. I feel like this is an amazing, that's an |
| 1:55.0 | amazing question. And it's such a unique time to be unpacking that. The short end of that answer is I got to the point in my |
| 2:04.9 | career where I realized that if I were to drop dead at that moment and the greatest thing |
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