Why Football Matters with Chuck Klosterman
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
NFL
4.5 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Gregg Rosenthal is joined by bestselling author Chuck Klosterman to talk about his new book "Football". Gregg and Chuck take a deep dive into the fandom around the sport of football, Chuck growing up a Cowboys fan and how being on the wrong side of a moment like "The Catch" can change a fan forever, the future of football globally and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where we are always excited to talk about a new great football book. |
| 0:15.3 | My guest today doing something a little different after this holiday weekend is to welcome in Chuck Closterman. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm a longtime fan. |
| 0:26.2 | He is the best-selling author of a new book football that's like right in my background, |
| 0:32.5 | but also the author of a gang of book, Sex Drug in Cocoa Puffs, which I really enjoy, |
| 0:37.0 | the 90s, Fargo Rock City, |
| 0:39.0 | a couple novels, including Downtown Owl. |
| 0:41.9 | But Chuck, you're here because you wrote a book about football. |
| 0:46.4 | And let's start there. |
| 0:47.8 | I feel like we need more good current books about football. |
| 0:51.6 | Like, why don't we have more current books about football? |
| 0:54.5 | Well, it's funny. |
| 0:55.7 | You mentioned that because when I brought up the idea of writing this book, |
| 1:00.9 | the publisher was not exactly enthusiastic based on the concept that football books don't succeed. |
| 1:07.9 | But there is this cliche, I guess maybe it's not even cliche. |
| 1:11.3 | Maybe it's true that in sports journalism, sports writing, if you want something to be |
| 1:17.8 | successful, you want to use a game with the smallest possible ball. |
| 1:24.3 | There's lots of books about golf. |
| 1:26.3 | Okay. |
| 1:26.7 | There's actually a lot of books and lots of writing about tennis, some about baseball. |
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