Bryan Weaver, founder and executive director of Hoops Sagrado, and Nate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, joined Political Misfits to discuss Covid forfeits and labor rights in the NFL, the way sports are coopted to carry jingoistic and nationalistic messages, and the importance of these ephemeral means of human expression.

Recorded and aired live on Radio Sputnik in Washington D.C. on Wednesday: December 2, 2020.

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Note: in case you can't tell lol, this is an ironic thumbnail of the NFL's 2020 summed up in this poster promoting -bitter rivals- Baltimore & Pittsburgh's unprecedented Hump Day afternoon kickoff -rather than its scheduled Thanksgiving NBC primetime slot.

Quick Commentary: the best critique of the NFL pressing ahead in spite of the pandemic is the injustice of rapid Covid-19 testing's -extraordinarily inconsistent- availability to the public, while the NFL is using up a staggering amount of available resources just to enable the games to go on. It's really a perfect illustration of the ever proliferating wealth gap in the U.S., and the worsening economic and social fragmentation that ensues as a direct result of neoliberal bipartisan consensus.

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