Earlier this week, Damar Hamlin, safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed following what appeared to be a routine tackle during a high-stakes football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. He received medical treatment on the field for nearly 10 minutes before being rushed to the local hospital. It took the NFL over an hour to suspend the game as coaches and members of both teams refused to play on.

We speak with Nathan Kalman-Lamb, nathan.html">assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport, and co-host of The End of Sport Podcast about the capitalistic underpinnings of violent sports, the role of spectators in the "commodity spectacle" of sports, and the social coercion that pushes athletes to put their bodies, and lives, on the line in the name of entertainment.

Earlier this week, Damar Hamlin, safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed following what appeared to be a routine tackle during a high-stakes football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. He received medical treatment on the field for nearly 10 minutes before being rushed to the local hospital. It took the NFL over an hour to suspend the game as coaches and members of both teams refused to play on.

We speak with Nathan Kalman-Lamb, nathan.html">assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport, and co-host of The End of Sport Podcast about the capitalistic underpinnings of violent sports, the role of spectators in the "commodity spectacle" of sports, and the social coercion that pushes athletes to put their bodies, and lives, on the line in the name of entertainment.