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The Ringer NFL Show

The Future of Football (Ep. 149)

The Ringer NFL Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Kevin Clark and Bryan Curtis predict the effects of recent events from the week in football by questioning what the NFL’s united front in response to President Trump's comments means (1:21), debating how diagnosing CTE in living people would stifle the popularity of football (11:18), and speculating on whether Trump’s attacks on the NFL will continue (30:17). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wringer NFL Show.

0:06.0

I'm Kevin Clark.

0:07.0

It's a very special episode.

0:08.0

I'm joined by Brian Curtis at www.dwringer.com.

0:10.0

Brian, how are you?

0:11.0

Good.

0:12.0

How you doing?

0:13.0

I'm okay.

0:14.0

We're here to focus on the future of football.

0:15.8

That's what we're tackling because this is the weirdest week I can remember of football.

0:20.6

And there's so many false alarms about football being at a crossroads or being at a turning

0:26.2

point.

0:27.2

Maybe football is dying.

0:28.2

We've been hearing it all of our lives.

0:30.0

Certainly.

0:31.0

Oh, have we reached peak football?

0:32.0

But I can't remember a weirder week of football than this.

0:36.5

First of all, you have Donald Trump not only attacking the players, but then as recently

0:40.2

as Wednesday saying the business is going to hell if they don't stop.

0:43.6

That was interesting.

0:44.6

That was interesting.

0:45.6

That was new.

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