Paul Tagliabue

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee.

In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.

A looks at how the events of September 11, 2001 impacted the NFL, its players and its fans. It is narrated by Mary McDonald-Lewis.

In late March of 1984, a moving company secretly packed up the Baltimore Colts’ belongings and its fleet of vans sneaked off in the darkness of the early morning. Leaving a city of deeply devoted fans in shock and disbelief. What caused owner Robert Irsay to turn his back on a town that was as closely linked to its team as any in the NFL? Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson, himself a long-standing Baltimore Colts fanatic, will probe that question in light of the changing relationship of sports to community. Through the eyes of members of the Colts Marching Band, Levinson will illustrate how a fan base copes with losing the team that it loves.

Go inside the high-stakes world of those who dare to lead the game they love to play. Pro football insiders take audiences behind the headlines on their thrilling American adventure in the coaching profession, where your calling is also your job, and the jobs, at the pinnacle of sport, are few. As with the elite athletes they mentor, teach, and train, opportunity is a linchpin that holds a decades-long career together or unravels dreams, even as they work to make the dreams of others come true.