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Le Batard & Friends Network

SBS- Dave Zirin

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dan talks to The Nation's Dave Zirin about his new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL. They discuss the NFL's firm grip of American culture, how they grew into that position in the first place, the things that most gross him out about the league, and Daniel Snyder's failed ownership of the Washington franchise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.6

talking to him over the years on a number of different subjects. He's got a new documentary

1:14.5

behind the shield, The Power and Politics of the NFL. It is tackling football's effects on American

1:21.1

culture. You can get the movie now. Any of you listening to this behind the shield movie.com

1:27.1

is where you go. Dave, why did you take this project on and thank you, by the way, for making

1:32.9

the time to join us. But you tackle big and substantive things. You like to tackle race and politics

1:40.4

and societal stuff. Why this is a project to pour yourself into as a documentary?

1:45.4

Hey, Dan. Great to be here. Two big reasons why I was like, the NFL is going to be my mobi dick

1:52.2

for the next several years. And I'm going to try to be Captain A. Hab and just do my best.

1:56.9

The first was a statistic that I read that over the top 100 of the top 100 programs of the last

2:04.4

several years on regular, alive, good old fashioned television, 85 of them were NFL games.

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