Interview: Daniel Sailofsky, Sociologist of Sport and Law, on Saying Goodbye to His NFL Fandom

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode Shireen Ahmed interviews Daniel Sailofsky, a lecturer in criminology and sociology at Middlesex University London, whose research examines gender and gender-based violence, masculinity, sport sociology and labor, and the sociology of law. They discuss Sailofsky's recent article in The Guardian called, "NFL season is here but I won’t be following anymore. I can’t un-see the harm it causes." They talk about his decision to say goodbye to a longtime NFL fandom, which includes known reports about the damages of CTE to players and the way the league does not care about violence against women perpetrated by the league's members. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Flamethrower, Shereen here.
0:11.8	Football has begun.
0:13.3	And when I say that, I don't mean proper football.
0:15.6	I mean American football.
0:17.2	And to discuss this, this week's guest is Dr. Daniel Zelofsky.
0:22.1	He is a lecture in criminology and sociology at Middle Sex University in London,
0:27.2	whose research examines gender and gender-based violence, masculinity, sport sociology, and labor,
0:33.4	and the sociology of law.
0:35.3	Daniel has also worked as an assistant coach in both women and men's
0:38.6	basketball at the collegiate level in Canada and is rooting for the aases and is a huge Toronto
0:45.6	Raptors fan. And we love that on this show. Welcome, Dr. Zolowski. Thank you so much. I'm so, so happy to be on with you big fan of the podcast um so
0:57.1	before we get into the really important stuff like your piece that just came out in the guardian
1:01.0	and i'm really interested to know more you as somebody who are not only research and talk about
1:08.1	systems in the nfl you were a fan. Tell me a little bit about who you
1:13.8	rooted for, how that started, particularly you being Canadian. How did that start? And then when did
1:19.6	you start studying it? Yeah. So I'm a Canadian. I was born and raised in Montreal. So this is
1:25.8	actually important for the football part of it,
1:28.0	because when you're in Canada and you're, this is the early to mid-2000s and don't have a satellite
1:35.2	dish or don't have one of those fancy packages at the NFL, you get CBS, Fox and the 1 o'clock,
1:41.1	4 o'clock games generally. And there's just a few teams in the Northeast that are generally the teams that are on at that time.
1:46.7	So it's the New York Giants, the New York Jets,
1:49.1	the Miami Dolphins, the New England Patriots,
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