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Former NFL Player Chris Kluwe On His Arrest Protesting MAGA

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, we speak to former NFL player Chris Kluwe. Kluwe made news this week for his protest of MAGA at a Huntingdon Beach city council meeting, garnering headlines worldwide. We discuss what led to that moment, why he did what he did, and the sports world’s reaction to this administration and what explains it.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. This week we speak to retired NFL punter, Chris Cluey. Now, you may remember Chris Cluey as a player with the Minnesota Vikings, of course, from 2005 to 2012, when he was at the time one of the few pro athletes, not just football players, willing to go out on a limb and stand up for the marginalized, the bullied, and all who face systemic oppression.

0:30.9

Perhaps then it shouldn't surprise us at all then that Chris Cluey made national news this week when he showed up at a Huntington Beach, California

0:38.3

City Council meeting, and this is what he said.

0:42.3

Hi, my name is Chris Cluey, a 15-year HB resident. I'm here to speak out against both the plaque and the current city council.

0:50.3

As a community made clear at the Library Commission meeting last Tuesday, everyone is in favor of a plaque to celebrate the library, but the vast, vast majority are against including a MAGA acrostick.

0:59.1

Unfortunately, it's clear that this council does not listen, so instead I'm going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks.

1:06.0

MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence.

1:09.0

MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans.

1:12.6

MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing.

1:16.6

MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal.

1:19.6

MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA,

1:23.6

including canceling a research on veteran suicide.

1:26.6

MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including canceling research on veteran suicide.

1:31.7

MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.

1:36.2

MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and most importantly,

1:39.2

MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.

1:43.2

You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is. We followed that by performing an act of civil disobedience, walking to the council, then going

1:50.0

limp and being arrested and carried out to the cheers of onlookers.

1:55.0

And we are so thrilled to have him here on the Edge of Sports podcast.

1:58.0

We really want to find out what went into that decision and what he

2:01.0

thinks about the ways that it seems to have inspired people probably well beyond his thoughts

2:06.3

and aspirations when he took the floor that night. So glad to talk to him right now. Chris Cluey,

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