Hey, flame throwers, Amir here, and I am so much about,

and I'm playing with your babies to the screaming shout, oh, yeah.

Hey, flame throwers, Amir here, and I am joined today by Shalise Manzi Young, who I'm so excited to talk to about all things NFL.

If you don't know, although you should know,

Shalise was the first black woman to work as a full-time beat reporter on an NFL team,

a long-time beat reporter of the Patriots, also a great sports writer currently for Yahoo Sports,

and please check out all of her columns, especially the last one. We'll get into some of that today.

And so I originally was like, Shillies, we got to talk Super Bowl.

And then, of course, five million other NFL storylines dropped in this week between games where, of course, nobody has anything else to talk about except for these NFL storylines.

So now we have an action-packed Super Bowl special NFL-based conversation to have.

So Shalese, thank you so much for joining us.

Welcome to Bernal Down.

Thank you.

I'm so excited.

First thing, first, I guess now we will start with Brian Flores,

who started Black History Month with a bang when he dropped a lawsuit alleging I really am over this word because we all know what it is and this we've been

known what it is. Documenting racist and discriminatory hiring practices. There's a few things

in this report that I want to highlight.

One, he talked about Stephen Ross paying him to tank games to $100,000 to lose games

and effort of getting a better draft position.

So tanking is there, especially annoying when you think about that black coaches

don't get second chances, that their losses amount to loss of jobs. We're coming off a year where

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