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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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The Athletic Football Show is excited to share our latest narrative podcast series - Between the Lines. The five episode limited series, hosted by The Athletic's Tashan Reed, focuses on how America’s biggest game grapples with America’s biggest issue. Between the Lines brings a first-person perspective into how race impacts each level of the NFL - featuring interviews with Commanders team president Jason Wright, Raiders team president Sandra Douglass Morgan, Atlanta Falcons GM Terry Fontenot, former Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, former NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson, New England Patriots captain Devin McCourty, former Seattle Seahawk Doug Baldwin and more. The first episode will be released on February 14th, and new episodes will follow every Tuesday right here on The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:30.3 | The NFL is unmatched. |
| 0:36.3 | Elite athleticism, weekly drama, Millions watching every game day. |
| 0:41.3 | Billions of dollars in revenue. But among all that attention, money, and success, the league has a critical flaw. |
| 0:48.4 | In my experience, the NFL does have a race problem, but more than that, the owners have a race problem. |
| 0:55.5 | The people who make the hiring decisions, I don't think that they are going to look at two candidates and think the black candidate is clearly superior. |
| 1:04.5 | What you don't realize is that as you're going through all of that, the stress that puts you on you. |
| 1:09.2 | It's like somebody beating you down every day. The thing is it has to be player level. We call it the NFL, but the 32 owners like, we can't sit here and say like this is important to all 32 of those guys. Football teams hated it. You know, issues like the National Anthem, kneeling for the National Anthem, issues like players speaking out in protest. Watch it Roger Goodell, like, get on TV and, you know, trying to sound like he win it. |
| 1:32.6 | We know it there's a definite limit on this ally ship, right? |
| 1:37.1 | I wasn't a big fan of the NFL because of what I had to go through and the way it was |
| 1:41.9 | out looked up on it. I just felt like I was fed up with |
| 1:45.0 | the NFL. I'm Tashon Reed, the host of a new podcast series from The Athletic called Between |
| 1:51.1 | the Lines. The series details how America's biggest game has grappled with America's biggest issue. |
| 1:56.5 | From the players who weigh the risks of being socially active in the wake of Colin Kaepernick, |
| 2:00.2 | to coaches and executives vying for equal opportunities to a league and owners who have failed |
| 2:05.3 | to support and promote diversity. The series includes exclusive interviews from Ladani and Tomlinson, |
| 2:11.4 | Doug Williams, Jason Wright, and several more players, coaches, and front-off executives |
| 2:16.4 | across the game. |
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