Is Watching Football Ethical?

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

With football season beginning, some fans are conflicted about whether or not to change the channel. Amid mounting evidence on player brain injuries, compensation questions for college athletes and the National Football League’s treatment of Colin Kaepernick, some once-diehard fans feel they can’t ethically continue to watch. Still, even though the 2021 Super Bowl reported decreased viewership, 96.4 million still tuned in. We want to hear from you: What’s the moral math of your football consumption? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.2	Welcome back to Forum.
0:47.4	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:49.2	I mean, I grew up with football.
0:50.8	I played football.
0:51.9	I watched football.
0:53.0	Loved football. I played football. I watched football, loved football. But as I grew into middle
0:54.9	age, suddenly my old obsession began to feel wrong, and I don't think I'm really alone in this.
1:00.0	There were the studies about concussions in the NFL, the way that college football players
1:04.4	disproportionately young black men were exploited by their schools. And then, of course,
1:08.5	the NFL's treatment of Colin Kaepernick, but I still love
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