post-super bowl links and things
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A collection of links, readings, thirst traps, and memes for your post-Super Bowl Monday. If this post is too long for your email, click the link to view it in your browser.
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And in case you missed it, I was all over the internet last week. I published two features at The Nation, one about the incredibly flawed process of USA Climbing’s attempts to pass a new trans participation policy and the other about the sport of Ultimate’s attempts to pressure their international governing body to take a stand in solidarity with Palestine. I was also on the End of Sport podcast and the Cancel Me, Daddy podcast to talk about Taylor Swift and the NFL.
Is anyone else watching “Couple to Throuple?” I have SO MANY THOUGHTS. I’m also watching “Fued: Capote vs. The Swans.” Paid subscribers, feel free to sound off on any of that in the comments!
sports links and reading
Let’s get the Super Bowl/football stuff out of the way at the top:
Anne Branigin at The Washington Post on how the image of a “WAG” has evolved over time:
Like Swift (but on a much smaller scale), the new WAG has helped endear her athlete partner to new audiences, said
: people who are less enamored with the front-office gossip that drives “serious” sports conversation (talk of “blue-chip” recruits and draft prospects) than they are the people at the center of it all. Sports fans who feel as comfortable talking about an athlete’s personal style as they are about trade deadlines. The new WAG may even defy heterosexual norms, rather than reinforce them — what athlete couple has matched the star power and swagger of Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe?
Marisa Ingemi at the San Francisco Chronicle on how Kristin Juszczyk’s viral NFL gear highlights how bleak the merch options for women are:
When Kristin Juszczyk, wife of 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, went viral during the postseason for the NFL merch she was designing for celebrities, [women] finally saw something made for female football fans that wasn’t just ugly… fans have been clamoring for her gear, which is not being sold to the masses — yet. A cursory glance at the NFL Shop online shows women’s options with primarily low cuts or tight fits, something not every fan would want. Not even every player that is available for men’s apparel has a jersey in a women’s fit.
Stephen Curry gifted a game jersey to Lindsay Lohan which is how I learned that Curry and his wife, Ayesha, are godparents to Lohan’s son.
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