Football! Why So Popular When So Few Play & Actually Understand It? The Perfect TV Product or A Distraction from Real Issues? Is Jim Thorpe Greatest Ever with No Video Evidence? Is it Applied Track?  episode artwork

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Football! Why So Popular When So Few Play & Actually Understand It? The Perfect TV Product or A Distraction from Real Issues? Is Jim Thorpe Greatest Ever with No Video Evidence? Is it Applied Track?

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read comes from the new book by Chuck Klosterman, "Football."Zac & Don discuss the first half of the book. They wonder about why so few people play the game, if it's the perfect TV product, whether the game is applied track, and more!

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