NFL Emails, Chicago Sky + O’Shea Jackson Jr. talks Lakers, Swagger

Takeline

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Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week on Takeline, O’Shea Jackson Jr. (13:29) joins to talk about starring in the new Apple TV+ series “Swagger.” Renee and Jason discuss the Chicago Sky winning their first WNBA title (30:27), and wonder why the NFL will not be releasing any more emails (00:56) in the wake of their Washington Football team investigation after the resignation of Jon Gruden. Plus, Howard Beck of Sports Illustrated joins (51:31) to talk about the 2011 NBA lockout and its impact on the NBA as we start the 2021 season. Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/Takeline. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	The NFL doesn't want to keep hammering home the stereotypes that we associate with the NFL.
0:05.6	I mean, there's a lot of stereotypes that people think of when they think of the NFL.
0:08.7	They think of races.
0:10.3	They think of homophobic.
0:11.5	We think of all the things that John Grootin represented in his emails.
0:15.5	No one was shocked.
0:16.5	No shocker alert here.
0:17.8	We're not surprised.
0:19.3	But the surprising part to me right now is that if the NFL thinks that we believe that of 650,000 emails,
0:27.7	that John Grootin is the only guy emailing himself and emailing himself back and then emailing
0:33.0	himself and BCCN and replying to himself, you've got to be kidding me if you think that we believe
0:39.2	that's where it stops.
0:40.3	So that's where the NFL needs to do better.
0:42.8	But for us, it just doesn't feel good.
0:50.8	Renee, after the slew of leaked emails showing various misogynistic racists and homophobic
1:05.2	language from the now former coach of the Raiders, John Grootin, the NFL has decided that no more
1:13.6	emails will be hot and in any way released.
1:18.4	And of course, if you're worried if there is similar kinds of language from Grootin or
1:24.9	from anybody else within that tranche of 650,000 emails, there's not.
1:31.6	Don't worry.
1:32.6	The NFL has looked into it.
1:33.6	We can take their work for it.
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