Episode 242: Sports vs Society

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode I play part of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO regarding sports. Bill makes some spot-on comments regarding what matters in sports and also talks about race and sports. I share some of my experiences from being in locker rooms and travelling with a professional team spanning 5 decades. My question is why can't society mirror sports locker rooms? The big reason is too many people are afraid to step out of their circle, their comfort zone, thus they stay stuck in the mud! In sports you are forced to be a team, to be around others with different backgrounds etc. The end result is enhanced education and an understanding of different cultures. Unfortunately, that principle doesn't apply to enough people in our society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.3	You know the other day I was perusing through social media
0:51.9	and saw the monologue or the excerpt or I'm not sure what the
0:56.8	adjective is real-time with Bill Maher he made some phenomenal points in my opinion as it relates to sports.
1:06.6	Let's listen to what Bill had to say and then I'll comment.
1:10.9	This is one reason why of the top rated telecasts on television.
1:17.0	Sports last year accounted for 94 of the top 100
1:22.0	because it is the last refuge of meritocracy in America.
1:26.0	Show business is full of nepo babies, politics is full of nepo babies,
1:31.0	even modeling which used to require the integrity to find a freakishly perfect
1:36.2	14-year-old in a small Slovenian village.
1:39.2	Has fallen to nepotism, but in sports there are no nepo babies.
1:49.2	There are the sons and daughters of former players, but it's not why they play.
1:53.2	Leila Ali didn't knock out 21 opponents
1:55.8	by smacking them with her birth certificate. Sports is the last place where it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from, just what you do.
2:10.0	No one gets hired either because it would make the team look like America or because
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