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Edge of Sports

Pete Carroll's Magic Shoes and Griner's Freedom

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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

Twitter: @JessedHagopian

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/t4bl-campaign-my-cause-my-cleats/


Zirin, A Vindication for Agitation: Brittney Griner Is Coming Home

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/brittney-griner-free/



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Transcript

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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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