Politico: How Nixon Turned Football into a Political Weapon
Victory Journal: A Political Education
Washington Post: The NFL Marketing Ploy that was Too Successful for the League's Own Good
US Sport History blog: 50 years of political positioning comes back to bite the league
Washington Post: The NFL: America's Socialist Utopia
Politico: How Nixon Turned Football into a Political Weapon
Victory Journal: A Political Education
Washington Post: The NFL Marketing Ploy that was Too Successful for the League's Own Good
US Sport History blog: 50 years of political positioning comes back to bite the league
Washington Post: The NFL: America's Socialist Utopia
Q & A with Andy and Andrew at Sport in American History Blog
Washington Post: on Nixon at the Lincoln Memorial
Public Seminar: Unsportsmanlike Conduct (on Trump and sports)
Zócalo Public Square: How the NFL and American Politicians Politicized Pro Football
slightly shortened version ran in SF Chronicle
We're History: Dave Meggyesy and the History of National Anthem Protests in the NFL
Washington Post: Long Before Colin Kaepernick, the NFL was Snuffing Out Dissent
radio: KALW "City Visions," Dec. 4, 7-8pm
radio: New Book Network--Sports podcast, May 9
book release party, Spruce restaurant, May 17, 7pm
reading group, UHS, May 21, 7pm
radio: Huddlin' with the Pros, May 23
book release party, Green Apple (Clement location), May 30, 6:30-8
Bruce Pratt talks about the book on Downtown with Rich Kimball, May 3
radio: KALW "City Visions," Dec. 4, 7-8pm
radio: New Book Network--Sports podcast, May 9
book release party, Spruce restaurant, May 17, 7pm
reading group, UHS, May 21, 7pm
radio: Huddlin' with the Pros, May 23
book release party, Green Apple (Clement location), May 30, 6:30-8
Bruce Pratt talks about the book on Downtown with Rich Kimball, May 30; I talk about the book with Bruce and Rich
film showing and discussion, Diesel Books, Larkspur, CA, June 20, 6-8
on Inside the Game with Pat Williams
reading: Books, Inc. (Chestnut St.), Sep. 12, 7-9pm
reading: Book Passage, Ferry Building, Sep. 18, 6-7:30pm
TV: Beyond the Game, with John Vorperian, Dec. 28
Sports by Brooks, Nov. 6, 2019 (we get tech issues worked out at 46:23 or so)
a fun conversation with Arnie Chapman at the Football History Dude podcast
conversation with Darin Hayes at Pigskin Dispatch
recommended reading in an article in The Society Pages
Gospel Coalition: 7, Maybe 8, Books to Read on Football and American Culture
Sports Biblio Digest: A Half-Century of American Football Culture Wars
Email me at jberrett AT gmail.com
Way back in 2001, I did a piece on the XFL. It's weirdly relevant again.
Here's a decent piece on The Tick
sports reality programming, circa 2001
a piece on CSI, which had just premiered, that holds up well