Underdog Sports is proud to announce that the newest podcast in our network is The Football Girl Podcast, hosted by Melissa Jacobs.
Finally, a podcast celebrating all the women who know and love football. TFG Managing Editor Melissa Jacobs talks to the most prominent female voices in all aspects of the NFL and shares a weekly musing on the intersection of football, society and feminism.
On this special edition of the TFG Pod, Melissa shares her views on the deeply disturbing new anthem policy wrong, and the possible ramifications for the NFL. She also discusses a recent Player’s Coalition event in Oakland rooted in criminal justice reform and a particularly poignant statement from 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman.
Then Howard Bryant, ESPN the Magazine senior writer and author of the prescient new book, The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America and the Politics of Patriotism, joins to offer his fiery lens on the anthem policy and what’s next for the players. Bryant is hopeful this policy will ignite a true coalition of players but is skeptical given the union’s decades-long lack of moral backbone.
Also, three NFL fans announce they are done with the league after the new anthem policy.
THE RUNDOWN
1:30: A fun announcement about the TFG Podcast
5:30: Melissa attends a Player’s Coalition event in Oakland
7:52: Richard Sherman on why sports and politics SHOULD mix
9:10: The NFL players got royally screwed by the new anthem policy
11:35: Melissa on the never-ending holes with the anthem policy
HOWARD BRYANT JOINS
18:25: New policy confirms skepticism toward union + “players got played”
20:32: We’re going to find out what the players are made of.
23:25: Solidarity among players should have taken priority over working with NFL
25:40: Players need to find more new, creative ways to protest
28:80: Hopeful that Malcolm Jenkins will change his tactics
29:50: How to keep original messaging on target
31:45: Up to the union to create a platform where player activism can be passed on
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