The NFL Is A Political Weapon (w/ Dave Zirin)
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The Martial Nature of a Football
The martial nature of football makes people feel an identification with war. And this country has been in a permanent state of war since september eleventh, two thousand and one. When colin capernick took that knee, the entire nf el world just completely lost thir shid - i think it was more than oki's disrespecting the anthem. It was also that he was directly challenging this idea of forced americana. To do that in the context of this patriotic spectacle is like pulling the string on the sweater of the enepel business model.
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