On the NFL’s opening week, best-selling author and MacArthur Genius Kiese Laymon joins Damon for an in-depth conversation on how they can enjoy such a violent, racist sport that profits on the destruction of (primarily Black) bodies. Plus, they find beauty in Black virtuosity and 90s-fine quarterbacks.
Chapters:
00:00 Open
00:26 Introduction
04:54 Growing up in the deep south as a football fan
08:38 Deion Sanders leaving his HBCU team to coach at a PWI
15:53 Damon roots for Mike Tomlin first, then the Steelers
22:40 Damon and Kiese can admit Jalen Hurts is an attractive man
29:17 The consumption of violence through the NFL
47:54 Outro
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