Inside The Video That Forced The NFL's Hand
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, a day after an emotional video was released by a group of NFL superstars, Commissioner Roger Goodell made a dramatic statement on camera. He said that the league was wrong for not listening to NFL players' concerns about police brutality, and he encouraged players to speak out and peacefully protest. It was a dramatic about-face for the league, which had previously tried to ban players from protesting during the national anthem. The Athletic’s Lindsay Jones joins us to tell the inside story of the video that forced Goodell to make this monumental shift, and how it was masterminded by an NFL employee who was fed up with the league and decided to go rogue.
Read Lindsay Jones and Jourdan Rodrigue's insider account of how NFL players forced Roger Goodell's hand:
https://theathletic.com/1857643/2020/06/06/inside-nfl-players-black-lives-matter-video-and-how-it-forced-goodells-hand/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:06.1 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 0:09.1 | And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked-about cases. |
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| 1:08.1 | On Friday, NFL Commissioner Roger Gidele did something unprecedented. |
| 1:14.0 | We the National Football League admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier |
| 1:18.9 | and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. |
| 1:22.6 | We the National Football League like lives met. |
| 1:27.0 | Today, the Athletics Lindsey Jones joins us to talk about how Gidele was forced into making |
| 1:32.2 | a monumental statement thanks to a powerful video from NFL players. |
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