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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