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Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, we speak to author Sean Deveney about his new book Fun City, which chronicles New York City in the 1960's -- an era of Broadway Joe Namath, the Amazin' Mets and some very interesting politics.Also, we have some choice words about the morality of watching professional football. We've got a classroom-warming Just Stand Up Award for former NFL linebacker, Aaron Maybin, and USA Gymnastics...please Just Sit Down. As always, we give you a Kaepernick Watch and so much more!Sean Deveney, AuthorFollow on Twitter @SeanDeveney—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 | Welcome to New York City -Cam'ron | Orinoco Flow - Enya | Make the Money - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | Man in the Box - Alice In Chains | Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5 | Wake Me Up - Remy Ma Ft. Lil' Kim | Lose Yourself - Eminem | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You had really an unprecedented run of success with the Mets, with the NICS, and with the Jets, with
0:08.1	these new teams, these new order teams, the establishment teams, the Giants and the Yankees
0:13.1	were in the cellar.
0:16.0	And so you had these new teams.
0:17.5	And I do think that you had the opportunity or the situation where things could have gotten
0:24.1	ugly at times in New York City. I think sports is one of the reasons that it didn't. I think that
0:28.6	a lot of the things that happened in other cities, sports was part of the reason that they didn't
0:35.0	happen in New York.
0:49.1	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week, we speak to author and journalist Sean Devaney about his book, Fun City, John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and how sports saved New York in the 1960s.
0:57.1	It's a great read. I can't wait to talk to him.
0:59.6	Also, I've got some choice words about the morality of watching football, given what we know about the game.
1:06.9	I also got to Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass down award that I'm very happy to lay out this week,
1:13.1	particularly that Just Stand Up award because it's a very Baltimore base, which is near and dear to my heart.
1:18.3	Also, we got Colin Kaepernick watch and about all the teams that chose to tank their year rather than sign the quarterback and much more.
1:26.5	But first, let's talk to Sean Devaney.
1:33.0	So, Sean, first things first, I did a little research on you, a little deep dive,
1:38.9	a little deep state research on you.
1:41.0	And you're not a New Yorker.
1:44.1	You live out in Illinois. But this is your second book that
1:48.5	weaves together sports and politics in New York City. What is it about New York City that's proven to be a
1:54.0	magnet for you to put in the amount of work that's gone into these books? Well, you know, I think that
2:00.4	when you're talking about sports and politics, the, the connections
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