What do you think about social issues and political commentary making its way into spaces outside of politics like sports?

It's terrible. It's just not right, you know, sports, the sport the sport you know it's let them play

and everything else you just be what it is you know I just don't think it should

be political to not be racist or not be sexist I don't think there's a

problem with expecting somebody

who is a public figure and is in charge of a very well-known team

to not be racist.

So when you hear of these frequent controversies, how does it make you feel about something like sports?

There is an issue within pretty much every field of like all of these different like deep-seated

social justice issues to cut everything out of your life is just

impossible. We can call out these people but we shouldn't just be like all right

we're never watching football again. This is the United States of anxiety.

I'm Ky Wright, and this week we are talking football.

We are in the heart of the NFL season and it does appear to be

as popular as ever. The league just announced that the average game this season has

had more than 17 million viewers, which is a huge increase

from last season.

This despite all that the league has endured, it has repeatedly been at the center of our National Culture Wars.

There were the revelations of brain damaging concussions

and the conversations that spurred about fetishizing violence and about the corruption that seems endemic among the rich and the powerful.

There was Colin Kepernik and the conversations his banishment started about really everything from

the role of protest in sports, labor organizing and free speech and on and on and on and

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