Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Edmund Easterbrookis an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season, Easterbrook formerly wrote an eclectic column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback on ESPN.com, and that column migrated to the New York Times in September 2015. He has authored nine books, and writes for op-ed pages, magazines, and journals...
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Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.
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And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.
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I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.
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I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
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It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
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I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.
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Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
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I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.
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And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
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I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
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But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
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I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
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It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
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Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average years for Atlantic storms,