And the only time we see it, sometimes, is when they bring out a wounded soldier, for example. And maybe he or she has lost two or three limbs, but they’re brought out into an NFL stadium or an MLB baseball game. And the impression that you get is, ‘Everything’s OK, see?’ But we don’t see this person struggling to get around at home. And maybe being depressed because they’ve suffered this horrible wound in war.”
You all need to read Veterans Speak Out Agains The Militarization of Sports
I don’t want to over-excerpt from the article but there’s a lot of interesting things…
According to the league’s figures, only 10 of the league’s 5,000 employees are veterans.
“That’s genuinely difficult to accomplish,” Nick says. “Like, if your goal was to hire as few veterans as possible, that’s pretty impressive. I’m almost certain that there’s more than 10. But they’ve really gone out of their way to avoid being able to even identify the veterans. I’ve been arguing that for 10 years. Like, ‘Figure out who they are, so we can support each other and link up and try to address some of these issues.’ And they patently refused to be involved in that.”
Keep up the good work Nick. Let’s find out where that jersey money is going.
