Billionaires Win the Super Bowl, Again!
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss why the Super Bowl happens, what else the owners of the Kansas City football team own, and what it shows about U.S. capitalism that the trophy is presented to the billionaire team owner after the team bleeds, sweats, and often receives or worsens injuries.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Tens of millions of people tuned in to watch the Super Bowl last weekend. |
| 0:07.0 | While the players faced off on the field, the billionaire team owners who dominate the NFL |
| 0:13.5 | were, of course, lining their pockets along with executives in the predatory sports betting industry that has exploded in popularity over the last year. |
| 0:26.1 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:32.9 | even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. necessity. We're excited to have Professor Richard Wolf join us again for our regular weekly segment, |
| 1:07.2 | where we talk about some of the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:16.8 | The Socialist Program brings you content three days a week, thanks to the support of our patrons at patreon.com forward slash the Socialist Program. |
| 1:27.3 | We appreciate all of your support and encourage you to |
| 1:30.3 | become a patron today if you enjoy listening to the show. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the |
| 1:36.3 | organization Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books, the latest being The Sickness is |
| 1:42.3 | the System when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself. |
| 1:48.1 | You can check out all of his work at rd wolf.com. That's r d wOLFF.com. Professor Wolfe, welcome back. |
| 1:56.6 | Thank you very much, Brian. Glad to be here. Very, very happy you could join us on this topic. |
| 2:02.2 | You know, the United States is a society that has promoted professional sports, perhaps greater |
| 2:10.4 | than any other society anywhere in the world. And football, of course, is the number one television sport. It's got college football. We have |
| 2:20.9 | professional football. Of course, at the end of the day, we have the Super Bowl, which took place |
| 2:26.8 | on Sunday. And one of the teams won. The Kansas City team beat Philadelphia Eagles by three points, was a real nail biter. |
| 2:37.5 | And some of the players were terribly injured, as happens in every game. |
| 2:41.9 | And there was a lot of drama. |
| 2:44.7 | And at the end, Kansas City had this great comeback, and they won, and it was considered |
| 2:49.9 | kind of a thrilling game. |
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