Beauty & Violence | 6

Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

The Boston Globe | Wondery

Exhibit C, Sports, Patriots, Aaron Hernandez, The Gladiator, The Boston Globe, True Crime, News, Boston Globe

4.8 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In life, Aaron Hernandez weighed 240 pounds. In death, the most important part of his body was just over 3 pounds. When researchers analyzed his brain they were shocked by what they found. A lifetime of football had seemingly taken a tremendous toll, but could it explain his violent crimes?

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez, and Football Inc.
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0:13.0	A listener note, this episode contains some adult language and themes.
0:17.0	As news of Aaron Hernandez' death broke, his former teammates were getting ready to take a trip to the White House.
0:24.0	No team has been this good for this long.
0:28.0	Patriots had won the Super Bowl a few weeks earlier.
0:31.0	The fifth under the team's owner, Robert Kraft.
0:34.0	He's built a culture dedicated to winning.
0:39.0	And he started it with his coach, and I want to tell you that is some special man.
0:44.0	Now they lined up on the South Lawn as President Trump singled out some of the players in especially the coach for praise.
0:51.0	It's called the Patriot Way, and that really starts with Coach Belicek.
0:57.0	And I want to thank all of you for being with us.
1:01.0	The Patriots are an incredible organization, and this Super Bowl victory was a complete team effort.
1:09.0	That's the beauty of what they do. They win as a team.
1:14.0	We have a brief statement to read on behalf of Aaron Hernandez' family.
1:20.0	But days later, in about 340 miles away, a spokesperson for the Hernandez family,
1:26.0	stood outside a Bristol funeral home to give a very different statement.
1:31.0	The family of Aaron Hernandez wishes to thank the public for its thoughtful expressions of condolences.
1:38.0	The family wishes to say...
1:40.0	In New England and beyond, reactions ranged from disbelief.
1:44.0	It's very hard for me to accept the fact that he may have committed suicide.
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