The Marshall Project

The First Ever Marshall Project Guide to the Super Bowl

A criminal justice matchup

We at the Marshall Project won’t be covering the Super Bowl because, well, that’s not our mission. We don’t know each team’s third-down conversion rate, nor can we provide you with an edge that will help you win your Super Bowl pool.

What we can do is look at the game through the binoculars of criminal justice. In a contentious season marked by player activism, speaking out – or taking a knee – against racism and police violence, we found several players who have been in the protest spotlight.

It may be true, as , that with a few historical exceptions sporting teams “are products to be sold, not political totems.” But he tossed off that caveat in a long essay arguing that it’s okay for liberals to back the Patriots

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