Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Patriots White House Visit with "The Football Girl" Melissa Jacobs

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We speak to former Sports Illustrated editor Melissa Jacobs about the Aaron Hernandez suicide and the Pats trip to this abnormal White House. Also, we have choice words about Gov Scott Walker's awkward attempt to jump on the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon, a very special Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down section, and a Kaepernick Watch.Melissa JacobsTwitter: @thefootballgirlEditor, The Football GirlDave Zirin, Scott Walker Just Cluelessly Exploited the Milwaukee Bucks to Suck Up to Trumphttps://www.thenation.com/article/scott-walker-just-cluelessly-exploited-the-milwaukee-bucks-to-suck-up-to-trump/ --http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)--Music: Eye Examination - Del The Funky Homosapien | Put You On The Game - The Game I The Symphony - Marley Marl I Itzsoweezee - De La Soul I The Next Movement - The Roots | Capumcap - Nightmares on Wax | Body Language - The Outskirts | Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley | Who Run - Three 6 Mafia | Chris Columbus - Head Roc | The Wire Outro Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the edge of the
0:17.0	I'm Dave Ziron.
0:19.0	This week, the train rack. That was the New England Patriots
0:22.9	visit to the Trump White House, talking that through with Melissa Jacobs from the Football Girl website.
0:28.7	Melissa Jacobs formally an editor at Sports Illustrated. Also, I've got some choice words about Wisconsin
0:34.8	Governor Scott Walker and his nauseating efforts to piggyback on the success of the Milwaukee Bucks.
0:41.0	I also got a Just Stand Up and a Just Sit Down award that you are not going to want to miss.
0:45.7	That includes, take that for data.
0:49.1	And if you don't know what that is, you certainly will by the end of this show.
0:52.0	Got some serious Kaepernick watch for you
0:54.7	and much much more but first melissa jacobs so melissa jacobs how are you i am good how are you
1:06.6	great to talk to you great to hear your voice great to have you back on the edge of sports podcast
1:10.3	so many issues i want to touch on with you but the first and foremost issue is i want to Great to talk to you. Great to hear your voice. Great to have you back on the Edge of Sports podcast.
1:17.6	There's so many issues I want to touch on with you. But the first and foremost issue is I want to talk to you about what I'm calling anatomy of a train wreck.
1:27.3	And that is the entire day on April 19th of the New England Patriots visit to the White House. And I was hoping I could walk it through with you chronologically and we could comment on each part of it. Okay. So first and foremost, before we get to the ridiculous,
1:33.7	let's start with the tragic in that the day started by learning about a former Patriot Star Titan
1:40.3	Aaron Hernandez allegedly hanging himself in his cell.
1:45.3	And I found the media reaction to this to be largely, first of all, people expressing
1:49.5	shock and then kind of a shrug, like hearing people actually say, you know, there's nothing
1:54.7	really to learn from this.
1:55.9	He was a murderer.
1:57.2	Now he's dead.
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