Sports In America with David Greene

Time just seems to move differently in football. There are 60 minutes on the game clock, but the games take three hours to play. For the players, time can seem to slow down at certain moments, during certain plays. But then... the whole season seems to go by quickly. And most careers are over in only a few years. And it's not just football. For all of us, time flies, it crawls, it stands still, and when we look back we think... Where did it go? This episode looks at what “football time”

When you’re taught that winning is everything, losing the Super Bowl can be a significant blow. And after a dynasty that saw three titles in four years, a decade-long championship drought can hit hard. But sometimes the biggest failures can ultimately lead to success. GUESTS: Rich Ohrnberger, Xiaodong Lin-Siegler from Columbia’s failure-studies research center Thanks to ESPN and The JFK Presidential Library for the clips used in this episode.

Only one team in NFL history has had a perfect season, and it wasn’t Brady’s Patriots. In 20007 Tom Brady and the Patriots were on the cusp of perfection when they fell short against the Giants in the Super Bowl. But perfection is a spectrum, and how we define it depends on the metrics we use to measure it. Could that Giants team have been the one with a “perfect” season that year? Could even the 1972 Miami Dolphins’ perfect season have fallen short in some ways? GUESTS: Kevin Gilbride,

America’s collective adoration of the underdog means that people love to hate Tom Brady. In the world of sports, hatred is inevitable, so why are haters always gonna hate? And in the context of sports, could hate be a positive thing? What might it take to change one fan’s mind? Featuring: 12-year-old viral Brady-hater Ace Davis, Asst. Prof. of Psychology at Univ. of Central Arkansas Marc Sestir, and Chad Neidt, the Broncos fan who wrote the “FU Tom Brady” song. Thanks to Chad Neidt,

In 2001, Tom Brady became the Patriots’ savior when he helped the franchise win their first Super Bowl. But why did the city embrace a guy that might not have fit the profile of a blue-collar Boston fan? How did Brady help redefine what it means to be a Boston sports fan? And how much do the players we think of as “ours” really belong to the community that roots for them? Guests: Boston sports fans the Varela family, Seth Wickersham, Playwright and Boston fan Tori Sampson, and a Pats fan

Here’s the Tom Brady Origin Story: Twenty years ago, a hit by Mo Lewis knocked Drew Bledsoe out of the game. Brady stepped onto the field and a dynasty was born. One play determined Tom Brady’s future and the future of a franchise. Or did it? Is this story more myth than fact? What if that hit hadn’t happened? One small moment can make a huge difference, but is there more to it than that? Featuring Herm Edwards, Rex Ryan, New York Times Science Writer Dennis Overbye, Boston Sports NBC

Whether you love him or hate him or are somehow completely indifferent, you’ve probably spent the last 20 years thinking about Tom Brady. Brady has altered friendships, families and communities. He’s changed the trajectory of careers and reputations, enabled fairy tale dreams to be both realized and dashed. This 10-part series looks at those two decades of Brady through the eyes of the fans and the haters, those in the arena and those outside. As host, Gotham Chopra grapples with these big