Is NFL Football A Blood Sport?
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week we speak to documentarian Isaac Solotaroff about his new project on Al Jazeera English, Bloodsport, a harrowing look at concussions and the NFL. We also talk about a new report that shows early CTE detection could be a scientific breakthrough very soon.
We also have ‘Choice Words’ about Kyrie Irving, anti-Semitism, and his frightening new allies.
We also have a ‘Just Stand Up’ and 'Just Sit Down’ award to Jaylen Brown for rightfully pointing out the hypocrisies of many Kyrie critics and Jaylen Brown for not giving a stronger condemnation of the widely citied film’s antisemitism.
Isaac Solotaroff
Twitter: @Isaac_Solotarof
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are talking to two-time |
| 0:17.0 | Emmy-nominated producer and director and a former friend seminary starting point guard. |
| 0:23.7 | His recent credits include free meek. |
| 0:26.3 | We're going to talk to him about that. |
| 0:28.0 | And showout, which is executive produced by LeBron James. |
| 0:31.5 | It's coming out in early 2023. |
| 0:33.7 | But what we're going to talk to him about primarily is that he is putting forward an expose |
| 0:39.1 | about brain injuries and the NFL for Al Jazeera English. |
| 0:43.3 | It's amazing. |
| 0:44.7 | It's called Blood Sports, and his name is Isaac Solitara. |
| 0:51.1 | Isaac, how you doing? |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. |
| 1:02.7 | Good, Dave. How are you? I'm doing well. Congratulations on Bloodsport, man. It's very powerful. Thank you. Thank you so much. |
| 1:09.3 | I mean, first and foremost, Isaac, it's great to talk to you. Thanks so much for coming on the podcast. My pleasure. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, let's just run through very quickly some of your recent credits, just because I think they might intrigue people. |
| 1:16.3 | If you could just give a thumbnail, what was free Meek about? |
| 1:19.8 | So Meek Mill was a documentary series about the rapper activist Meek Mill who was wrongfully |
| 1:25.8 | convicted of pulling a gun on a police officer, |
| 1:32.6 | which if you're a black man in Philadelphia, everyone knows that a black man that pulled a gun |
| 1:37.5 | on a police officer does not live to tell the tale. But me, not only tell the tale, but was imprisoned for it and then on probation for it for 10, 11 years. |
| 1:50.5 | And what we were able to do was find a whistleblower officer who said that Meek was set up, that Meek, in fact, did not pull a gun on a police officer and that this was |
| 2:01.4 | actually a staged robbery by this narcotics unit in Philadelphia. So we were basically |
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