Fall football — or the fall of football?

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, the NFL is gearing up for the start of its 104th season. But as this new chapter begins, we're looking at some of the league's old problems with race and diversity — ones that have implications for the coaches, the players, and the fans.

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0:00.0	Just the heads up, y'all, this episode contains some salty language, so, you know, it's
0:04.4	gonna be some cousin.
0:05.4	What's good, y'all?
0:06.4	You're listening to Code Switch.
0:08.2	I'm Gene Debbie.
0:09.2	And I'm Lori Lisa Raga.
0:11.1	The 2023 NFL season kicks off this week.
0:14.7	It's the 104th season of the National Football League, Gene.
0:18.6	So we're talking about football.
0:20.4	And Gene, I can't remember, do you care you fan of any team in particular?
0:28.2	I was there in Philly in 2018 when the Eagles finally won the Super Bowl.
0:33.7	It was chaos.
0:34.7	Oh, wow.
0:35.7	It was one of the best nights of my life.
0:37.7	We walked in the uproar street, me and my wife and my friends.
0:40.2	And it felt like the whole city was having this cathartic moment, like, finally.
0:45.3	There was a couple having sex on top of a car.
0:48.6	And my wife, you know, was a football fanatic too, like she's a Niners fan.
0:51.8	I'm so sorry, Dave, I'm sorry to bring up.
0:54.1	And football was like a really big part of our early dating life.
0:58.4	Yeah, but you know, like it's football.
1:00.6	It's very weird.
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