Beauty & Violence | 6
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
The Boston Globe | Wondery
4.8 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In life, Aaron Hernandez weighed 240 pounds. In death, the most important part of his body was just over 3 pounds. When researchers analyzed his brain they were shocked by what they found. A lifetime of football had seemingly taken a tremendous toll, but could it explain his violent crimes?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez, and Football Inc. |
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| 0:13.0 | A listener note, this episode contains some adult language and themes. |
| 0:17.0 | As news of Aaron Hernandez' death broke, his former teammates were getting ready to take a trip to the White House. |
| 0:24.0 | No team has been this good for this long. |
| 0:28.0 | Patriots had won the Super Bowl a few weeks earlier. |
| 0:31.0 | The fifth under the team's owner, Robert Kraft. |
| 0:34.0 | He's built a culture dedicated to winning. |
| 0:39.0 | And he started it with his coach, and I want to tell you that is some special man. |
| 0:44.0 | Now they lined up on the South Lawn as President Trump singled out some of the players in especially the coach for praise. |
| 0:51.0 | It's called the Patriot Way, and that really starts with Coach Belicek. |
| 0:57.0 | And I want to thank all of you for being with us. |
| 1:01.0 | The Patriots are an incredible organization, and this Super Bowl victory was a complete team effort. |
| 1:09.0 | That's the beauty of what they do. They win as a team. |
| 1:14.0 | We have a brief statement to read on behalf of Aaron Hernandez' family. |
| 1:20.0 | But days later, in about 340 miles away, a spokesperson for the Hernandez family, |
| 1:26.0 | stood outside a Bristol funeral home to give a very different statement. |
| 1:31.0 | The family of Aaron Hernandez wishes to thank the public for its thoughtful expressions of condolences. |
| 1:38.0 | The family wishes to say... |
| 1:40.0 | In New England and beyond, reactions ranged from disbelief. |
| 1:44.0 | It's very hard for me to accept the fact that he may have committed suicide. |
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