Ep. 236: The NFL's Riveting, Awful and Icky Lead Up to Super Bowl LVI

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode Jessica Luther, Amira Rose Davis and Lindsay Gibbs talk all things NFL. But first, they share their favorite Winter Olympic moments from the weekend. Then they dive into the most recent NFL mess, including Brian Flores' class action lawsuit against the league, sexual harassment in the Washington football team, the playoffs rollercoaster and Super Bowl LVI predictions between the Cincinnati Bengals and L.A. Rams. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Amira's interview with Shalise Manza Young, Yahoo sports columnist and former Patriots beat reporter on the NFL. Next, the team burns the worst of the sports this week on The Burn Pile. Then, they lift up those making sports better, including Torchbearers of the Week, the NWSL's CBA agreement and WNBA $75 million capital raise. They wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down, and I'm joined you out.
0:04.4	And I'm playing with your babies to the screaming show, oh, yeah.
0:09.4	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.4	I'm Jessica, and today I'm joined by Lindsay and Amira.
0:17.4	On this week's show, we're going to be talking about the NFL, which has had some of its more entertaining weeks of football recently, but it's also a league still rife with discrimination.
0:28.2	We will talk about all of it.
0:30.2	Then we'll burn the things that deserve to be burned, highlight the torchbearers who are giving us hope, let you know what's good in our worlds, and tell you what we're watching this week. But before we get into that, I want to talk about this first weekend of the Olympics.
0:43.7	I personally had one of those great spectator Olympic moments where yesterday I found myself watching
0:50.4	a replay of the men's 5,000 speed skating final.
0:57.4	And I got incredibly invested in a sport.
1:00.5	I know nothing about, never watched, never heard of these people before.
1:04.7	But it came down to the final skate, the pair that were going.
1:09.1	And the Swedish guy, I know everything about his backstory,
1:13.3	Neil's Vanderpoll, he was going for it. He had the world record, but this Dutch guy had just
1:18.8	skated the Olympic record, and he was nervous on the sideline. They have to, I don't know,
1:25.0	they do like 12 and a half laps or something. Swedish guy.
1:28.8	He was behind by like two seconds, which apparently you just cannot overcome two seconds
1:33.7	in speed skating. And then in the last three laps, he fucking did. And I was screaming on my
1:39.6	couch as this man won the gold medal for Sweden. I just love stuff like that.
1:46.0	Amira, did you have anything that you watched and loved over the weekend?
1:50.0	Well, you know me.
1:51.2	I watch everything at like 3 a.m.
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