Interview: Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, authors of Hail Mary

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Note: this interview was recorded in 2021 before Frankie de la Cretaz changed their name, however the text and transcriptions for this episode have been amended. In this episode Amira Rose Davis talks with Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, authors of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League. They discuss what it took to write this book and find former players, the beautiful history they uncover in women's professional football and what the NWFL can tell us about sports leagues today. 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, Flamethrowers, Amira here.
0:10.4	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the sports podcast that you absolutely need.
0:14.6	I am so pleased to be joined today by not one but two friends of the show,
0:20.1	Brittany De La Crayta and Lindsay Darkangelo,
0:22.6	to celebrate the release of their book Hail Mary, the Rise and Fall of the National
0:27.2	Women's Football League. Cop this, now it's out already. So first and foremost, welcome to
0:33.6	burn it all down. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thank you. For sure. I am so excited to talk with y'all about this for a million different reasons.
0:41.0	I just want to start because football, yes.
0:44.6	Touchdown was my first word.
0:46.2	And I resonated a lot with the part.
0:50.6	You have a piece of pros in the book where you talk about football as religion.
0:55.9	And it's really fitting.
0:56.8	We just finished.
0:58.3	If you're listening to this, the episode that just dropped was about superstition in sports.
1:03.4	We talked about sports and religion.
1:05.3	And we talked about what it feels like to be outside, to be sidelined for something that society has deemed so
1:12.2	important, so much is the fabric of your life. And football is like that for so many people.
1:16.9	So I just wanted to start by asking y'all, what was your relationship to football, to this sport?
1:23.3	And what led you to this work? Well, I actually grew up playing football with my brothers.
1:30.1	I have a twin brother and an older brother.
1:32.2	And, I mean, that was what we did in the neighborhood.
1:35.0	I grew up in a neighborhood that was primarily just filled with a bunch of boys.
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