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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

Introducing Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez & Football Inc.

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Football star Aaron Hernandez went from the bright lights of the Super Bowl to a convicted murderer in a few years. The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, best known for its investigation of the sexual abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church, takes a hard look at the crisis facing football through the lens of Aaron Hernandez’s life and terrible crimes. Listen today: wondery.fm/biz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, boys and girls. This is a special edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

0:05.1

You're about to hear something special on this standalone podcast. This is a preview of the new podcast out there called Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez, and Football Incorporated.

0:15.2

This is done by the spotlight team from the Boston Globe that gave you that great movie. This is the same team.

0:21.0

It's investigative sports reporter Bob Hoer. He takes the first leap behind one of the more troubling

0:26.0

sports stories in history. It's a story that runs much deeper than you think you've got to hear

0:31.5

this. And when you're listening, be sure to subscribe to Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez, and Football

0:36.9

Incorporated on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening to this podcast.

0:41.3

Again, special edition of the Business of Sports podcast, a preview of the new podcast called Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez and Football Incorporated.

1:00.0

Thank you. Football, Inc. 911.

1:00.5

Where is your emergency?

1:03.0

It's 307 in the morning.

1:06.0

A 911 call comes in from Susa Baranowski

1:08.8

Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Massachusetts.

1:13.5

I need an ALS ambulance for an inmate hanging.

1:17.5

Okay, I'm going to push on with which one minute.

1:19.6

Thank you.

1:20.4

A man has been found hanging from a makeshift noose made from a bed sheet in his cell.

1:25.8

The emergency medical team arrives at the prison at 3.29 a.m.

1:30.3

By then, prison guards have cut the inmate down and perform chest compressions.

1:35.3

Twenty minutes later, he still isn't breathing.

1:39.3

A little after four in the morning, an hour after the first 911 call, the man is officially pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

1:48.1

He was one of 14 inmates to die by suicide that year in Massachusetts prisons.

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