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Show Notes
As I told Chuck Klosterman, I planned to do a pod on his Football book with non sports fan Rob Henderson. So what did our favorite sports agnostic intellectual think of such a deep dive into America’s favorite game?
Topics! Include!
* When one’s job is a bigger marker of identity than one’s race
* Is the NFL a more positive racial story than what gets relayed in media?
* Why did conservative media know football was coming back during Covid?
* Most retired NFL players have painful daily injuries. Most of the injured have no regrets
* How does NFL culture deal with certain positions being higher/lower Wonderlic?
* Libs are fine with young women doing Only Fans; Cons are fine with young NFL players damaging their brains
* Rob Henderson is fascinated by the gender implications of how the WNBA reacted to Caitlin Clark
* Why are NBA teammates rarely friends?
* Rob is interested in why soccer is an elite sport in America but working class sport elsewhere
* Rob and I both loved one particular passage in Klosterman’s book about how his dad reacted to Doug Flutie’s miracle play
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