Colin Kaepernick and the NFL

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In the good old days of football, it was a bunch of reasonably young, enterprising owners who loved football and owned teams. The league as itself and thus all the owners were cowboys trying to make it for themselves in the world. And those people all got old and didn't want to change at all. Now most of those people are dead and it's their descendants who are also old who own these teams. So there's these very interesting artifacts of the league being grown up, old and stodgy, something like that.

The NFL — it’s almost synonymous with America today. And its history is a fascinating lens to explore the nation’s development over the last 100 years, from WWII to TV and suburbs to the Internet and social media. What began as a quasi-illicit league in small midwestern towns is now the single largest media property in the world today by revenue. And whether you watch football or not, this is one incredible business story. Acquired is ready for some football — let’s kick this Season off right!

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