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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On this week's episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, we interview radical educator Jesse Hagopian and how a crew of Seattle activists were able to get Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll to wear shoes with a bracing political message.
We also have Choice Words about Brittany Griner's release and some words about the lates sportswriting giant, Grant Wahl. We also have a Just Stand Up award for the person who ran on a World Cup field to protest the exploitation going on behind the games. We have a Just Sit Down award for Jerry Jones, not simply due to the leak of a 65-year old photo he’s in depicting classic American racism, but also because of his racist track record running “America’s team.”
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Jesse Hagopian
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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/brittney-griner-free/
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the edge of sports podcast. I'm Dave Zyron. This week we are talking about my cause, my cleats. |
0:19.4 | Or maybe it's our cause, our cleats, whatever the NFL is branding it as |
0:23.2 | where players put messages about issues off the field on their cleats. Well, oh my goodness, |
0:30.0 | Pete Carroll's cleats. They had a tribute to the radical educator, Septima Clark, and the phrase, Black Lives Matter at schools, which references |
0:40.9 | a book and a movement. Well, we're going to talk to one of the people who made this a reality. |
0:45.5 | It's a fascinating story. He's a activist and an educator from Seattle. His name is Jesse Vigopian. |
0:52.5 | And we're going to learn about how Pete's cleats happened. |
0:57.6 | Also, I've got some choice words about the story in sports. Britney Griner coming home. |
1:05.4 | And I have some more words about the death of a great friend of the show, Grant Wall, the most important |
1:14.2 | soccer writer in the English-speaking world. |
1:16.6 | So let's start it off by talking with Jesse Hugopian. |
1:23.2 | You know, the NFL does something called My Cause, My Cleats, where players take issues that |
1:29.3 | they're passionate about and get amazing artists to dress up their cleats in the issue itself, |
1:35.3 | with oftentimes mind-boggling artistic skill. And oftentimes, it has to be said, the causes are causes that are close to |
1:46.2 | players' hearts. Maybe it's gun violence because they lost somebody close to them. Maybe it's |
1:52.1 | cancer because of a mother or a grandmother, particularly breast cancer, that a lot of the players |
1:58.8 | feel very connected to. know and and when you look |
2:02.5 | through what the causes are that's what they tend to be about they don't tend to be causes that |
2:09.1 | directly necessarily challenge power and talk about human liberation except for one man the dang near 70 year old coach or maybe he's over 70 of the |
2:23.9 | seahadahs is over 70 of the seahawks pete carroll who wore these cleats or had these cleats made |
2:33.0 | that were just unbelievable. |
2:35.0 | They were themed around the idea of teaching for black lives |
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