How Much Longer Can Football Last?

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🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mark Leibovich has a day job covering the reality show of politics as the New York Times Magazine’s Chief National Correspondent, but he’s spent the spent the last few years reporting a book on America’s other biggest reality show: football. The new season begins with Colin Kaepernick the face of Nike, Donald Trump the NFL’s biggest commentator, and America’s most popular sport facing a myriad of problems. How does football survive both CTE and declining ratings? Which is the bigger swamp – Washington, DC, or an NFL owner’s box? Links - Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times (Mark Leibovich, 2018) - “The Absurdist Spectacle of the Nike Boycotts” (Hannah Giorgis, September 5, 2018) - “Colin Kaepernick, Nike, and the Myth of Good and Bad Companies” (Joshua Hunt, September 5, 2018) - “Taking a Blowtorch to Debate” (Alex Wagner, September 5, 2018) - “Trump’s Divisive and Relentless Politicization of the NFL” (Ben Strauss, September 1, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	This week marks another kickoff of another NFL season.
0:34.0	Fans are gearing up to watch the armies of American Football Wage War,
0:38.0	but the even bigger fight might be the one behind the scenes.
0:41.0	A cast of giant personalities, Roger Giddell, Colin Kappernik, Donald Trump, are facing
0:47.3	off in a clash that would be pop culture gold if only real lives weren't at stake.
0:52.4	Is the biggest soap opera of this NFL season
0:54.7	going to happen on the field?
0:57.8	Or off of it.
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1:18.6	I am delighted to welcome back my oft-gallavanting co-, over in New York, wearing her Atlantic Contributing Editor hat,
1:24.8	the esteemed Alex Wagner.
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1:44.1	the esteemed Jillian B White.
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1:50.0	Today, we welcome to the table the one and only Mark Leibovich who is
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