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Death, Sex & Money

Game Changer: Whether To Play, And Protest, In The NFL

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.67.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

"Once you're done with football, you're done with football."

Look out for more in our Game Changer series, about the ways athletes' lives and livelihoods have been upended by COVID-19, next week.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, when you play football, it's nothing like going out there in between those lines.

0:05.6

And the camaraderie with your teammates, they go out there and try to win a football game.

0:10.0

You know, it's, it gets me on a bad every morning.

0:12.7

You know, obviously I love my kids, I love my family.

0:15.2

But man, football just, it does something for me where I just, I love every day because

0:22.0

once it's gone, it's gone.

0:23.0

So you gotta enjoy this, like, while it's here.

0:30.4

This is Game Changer, a series from Death, Sex, and Money about how the lives and livelihoods

0:36.8

of American athletes have been upended this year.

0:41.1

I'm Anna Sale.

0:50.9

Shelby Harris has suffered from asthma for as long as he can remember.

0:55.3

For my asthma, it was a lot.

0:56.6

I'm on a daily inhaler.

0:58.3

I take that twice a day morning and evening.

1:01.3

And then that's just a vanish in the asthma.

1:04.5

And so whenever I feel like my lungs are getting tight and I really can't breathe,

1:08.0

then I take the rest of you inhaler, my albira, and that's supposed to be the quick fix.

1:14.5

Shelby told me he uses both types of inhalers regularly, especially while he's in training

1:20.3

for his job as a defensive lineman in the NFL.

1:24.0

I haven't had those pretty much everywhere.

1:26.0

I have one of my locker, I've one of my car, there's a couple of my house.

1:31.4

So really, whatever I like, just in case, it's just that peace of mind is knowing I have that.

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