The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: Super Bowls and Slavery

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

A hilarious deep dive into the NFL’s not-so-subtle plantation vibes, today’s episode of IDKMYDE flips the script on football, slavery, and why the Combine feels like an auction block with better lighting!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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starting February 11th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told, where I dig into crimes where a woman is not just a victim. She might be the detective, the lawyer, the witness, the coroner, the criminal, or some mix of those roles. Because these are the stories we need to know to understand the intersection of society,

justice, and the workings of the human psyche. Listen to The Greatest True Crime Stories told, starting on February 11th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On today's episode of I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either, I have a question. You ever notice how football feel like slavery, but with a halftime show? I didn't know, maybe you didn't need.

I didn't know, maybe you didn't need. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need I didn't know maybe you didn't need I didn't know maybe you didn't need I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know I mean think about it the NFL combine that's just a fancy slave auction with Wafaa they measuring wingspans 40 yard dash times hand sizes or yep this one here can carry a whole plantation's worth of footballs down the field in 4.3 seconds. Bruh, they got grown men in spandex doing shuttle drills while old white dudes whisper, they look strong, doesn't he? I'm like, where's Django when you need him? And let's not even start on college football. Before

NIL, these kids is out there getting hit like they owe somebody money, bringing in billions for universities and what they get? A cafeteria meal plan and a good luck handshake. Wasn't no paychecks, wasn't no health benefits, just a coach yelling, you gotta play for the love of the game. Meanwhile, that coach driving a Lamborghini and wearing a visor in the winter. Bruv, this ain't modern sharecropping, I don't know what is. And what about the NFL owners?

I mean, let's just start right there. You notice how we have to call them owners, not managers, not CEOs, owners. Just something about that word don't sit right in my spirit. They up in luxury boxes like, yeah, run faster, my boy. And the players, 75% black. Coaches, mostly white. Owners, whiter than unseasoned chicken. I'm just saying, how you gonna have a league full of black folks and not one team called

the Atlanta Wakandas? Where's the representation? And don't get me started on the physical toll. They out there breaking their bodies up, getting concussions, and then the league's like, here's a $50 gift card to Applebee's, thanks for your service. They even added an extra game this year for the NFL. I'm telling you, the NFL treats players like old cell phones. Oh, it's broken?

Trade it in for a newer model. Only difference is the NFL don't charge a restocking fee. But here's the twist, players starting to fight back. Colin Kaepernick kneeled and the world lost his damn mind. Like y'all cool with the injuries, the exploitation, the CTE, and the fact that my Dallas Cowboys ain't won a Super Bowl since the Clinton administration, but a brother taking a knee? Oh that's where we draw the line. I mean slavery had rebellions too.

Nat Turner and Cleats y'all. We out here flipping the system one touchdown at a time. Here's what I'm proposing. NFL players need reparations. Forget Super Bowl rings. Start handing out 40 acres and a time. Here's what I'm proposing. NFL players need reparations. Forget Super Bowl rings, start handing out 40 acres and a Bentley, and let's diversify ownership. I wanna see Jay-Z and Snoop running teams.

Imagine the halftime shows then. Hell, put me in charge of the Panthers. First move, we changing the name to the Carolina Black Panthers. Huey Newton jerseys for everybody. Ha! So yeah, football and slavery, not the same. But let's be real, they could be second cousins.

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policymakers, and so many other fascinating people, like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd. I love writing more than anything. You're left alone. You know, you do three hours in the morning, you write three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school, and write at night. And after nine hours, you come out with seven pages, and then you're moving on. Listen to Here's the Thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast, The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told, where I dig into crimes where a woman is not just a victim. She might be the detective, the lawyer, the witness, the coroner, the criminal, or some mix of those roles, because these are the stories we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice, and the workings of the human psyche. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told, starting on February 11th on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Coming February 11th, a new podcast, Obscuro, Invasion of the Drones, starting February 11th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.