The Politics of Sports
Majority 54
Majority 54
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jason Kander and I'm Robbie Gupta and this is majority 54. |
| 0:08.0 | The podcast that helps Americans who voted for progress convinced those who didn't to |
| 0:12.0 | join our majority. |
| 0:13.6 | Robbie, we have a guest tell the people about our guest. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm excited to introduce Lindsey Jones who's a senior writer for the athletic covering |
| 0:21.1 | the NFL and she's previously written about the NFL for USA Today in the Denver Post and |
| 0:26.2 | she's covered everything from high school to college sports to the professional sports. |
| 0:30.5 | She's a native of Fort Collins, Colorado and a graduate of Emory University. |
| 0:35.0 | Lindsey, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank you guys so much for having me. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, Lindsey, we invited you on because we're at a point where like in most things in American |
| 0:44.3 | life, sports and especially the NFL right now is highly politicized. |
| 0:49.8 | And so we wanted to dive deep this week, not just because the Olympics are going on, but |
| 0:54.0 | because the NFL recently announced strict protocols and penalties for NFL players who are |
| 1:00.3 | unvaccinated, should they get COVID-19? |
| 1:04.4 | Do you mind just describing a little bit about what the NFL announced last week and what |
| 1:08.7 | the implications of that are? |
| 1:10.0 | Sure. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | So the NFL last week informed all 32 of its teams of what they're calling their 2021 competitive |
| 1:18.3 | protocols as it relates to COVID. |
| 1:21.0 | So the NFL has spent months really the entire off season talking about vaccinations, trying |
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