Playing Through Pain | 8

Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

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4.8 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl again, and many current NFL players are feeling the physical toll the season has taken. Aaron Hernandez spoke to his former teammates nearly every day from prison: about the injuries they endured, and the drugs they took to dull the pain. Some of the drugs were legal, administered by the teams, but some drugs weren't. The drugs can help players remain on the field. But at what cost?

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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.
0:14.0	This episode contains some adult language and themes.
0:18.0	In football, pain is part of the game.
0:21.0	One of my earliest memories of football was in college.
0:26.0	A person on the medical staff stands up in front of us and says in football, there is a 100% chance of injury.
0:33.0	The pressure to keep playing even when you're hurt can be immense.
0:38.0	And after he said that, he says, and there's the door, no one left.
0:44.0	You're training to become a destructive human being and you go and pose your will on Sunday and it's fun and everyone loves it.
0:55.0	This is all.
0:58.0	Big, extended, and gentle.
1:01.0	On TV, you don't, you never get to see how loud and incredibly hard these hits are.
1:06.0	For these guys to get up is very impressive.
1:10.0	I'm not sure about this one.
1:11.0	Somehow it gets to its feet.
1:13.0	But those hits, those injuries, they take a toll in game after game, season after season.
1:19.0	Hello Super Bowl, New England.
1:22.0	It's heading back again for the third straight year.
1:26.0	Drugs, grounds winning and on to Super Bowl 53 they go.
1:30.0	By the time the Super Bowl rolls around, just late in the season, everyone's injured.
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