On Race, The NFL Fumbles The Ball
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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This weekend's Super Bowl LVI comes as the NFL is being sued by Brian Flores, a former head coach of the Miami Dolphins who has accused the league racial discrimination in hiring practices. To discuss the lawsuit and racism in the NFL, we're joined by Tyler Tynes, a staff writer for GQ who covers the intersection between race, politics, and sports.
The nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were announced yesterday and Netflix’s "Don’t Look Up" is up for Best Picture. The climate change satire has been a huge hit for Netflix, though the critical response to it has been more mixed. David Sirota, who co-wrote the screenplay, joins us to talk about the movie and how the climate catastrophe gets covered in media.
And in headlines: a new Freedom Convoy blockade emerged at the U.S.-Canadian border, Peng Shuai spoke to reporters in her first sit-down interview since last year, and federal agents arrested a couple for conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 9th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Jesse Defi Rice, and this is What a Day, where we want to congratulate |
| 0:12.1 | US Olympia and Nathan Chen for setting the highest short program score in figure skating |
| 0:16.2 | history. |
| 0:17.2 | Yeah, that might have been cool, Nathan, but you hadn't gotten the congrats from Wad yet, |
| 0:20.8 | and that's what really counts. |
| 0:22.2 | Here's your real gold medal. We offer it to you as the number one scores of figure skating. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, the reaction to a disconcerting interview from Chinese tennis star Pung |
| 0:35.3 | Shui plus the DOJ announces its largest ever financial seizure of stolen cryptocurrency |
| 0:40.9 | from two terrible millennials. |
| 0:43.0 | But first, this weekend is the Super Bowl, and it is arriving at a time when the NFL is |
| 0:47.2 | kind of in hot water. |
| 0:49.7 | Last week, Brian Flores, former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, filed a class action lawsuit |
| 0:53.7 | against the NFL alleging racial discrimination and hiring practices. |
| 0:58.1 | He said, quote, the NFL remains ripe with racism, particularly when it comes to the hiring |
| 1:03.2 | and retention of black head coaches, coordinators, and general managers. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, and Flores claims that the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants conducted these |
| 1:10.8 | sham interviews with him in order to satisfy the Rooney rule, which requires the team officials |
| 1:15.6 | interview minority candidates for coaching and senior leadership positions included in |
| 1:20.3 | his lawsuit are text messages exchanged in late January with Bill Bellachek, coach of |
| 1:25.0 | the New England Patriots, also a man who has no intact hoodies. |
| 1:29.6 | According to Flores in late January, Bellachek texted him congratulating him for being named |
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