Ghouls? Jeff Pearlman on Why Strahan Should've Asked The NFL Question | DLS Bonus Episode
7/3/202621 min
Dan is being called a 'ghoul.' So is Jeff Pearlman. It's all happening because the duo simply suggested that when Michael Strahan sat across from NFL legend Chris Johnson as he revealed his ALS diagnosis, someone should have asked about the four times higher ALS risk NFL players carry for the rest of their lives. For that matter, it's a risk CJ2K had already posted about himself. Pearlman joins Dan to defend his take that set Twitter ablaze, and the two dig into why "not the right time" always seems to be the excuse for backing away from tough questions.
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First 90 secondsDan Le Batard· Host0:00
[electronic music] Jeff Pearlman has been a frequent guest of our show. He has written 10 books that are New York Times bestsellers. You can follow him at TikTok, @JeffPearlmanAuthor on TikTok. He's got a ton of followers, a really unique following. He's the author of Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, and also Season four of his very popular YouTube show, Pressbox Chronicles. It debuts on Monday. He and I are coming under some criticism. I actually borrowed the take from him, gave him credit for it, but when he mentioned the Michael Strahan interview with Chris Johnson, he brought up something that I had not considered, and I agreed with him, and now people are calling us ghouls because he said that Michael Strahan as a football player has to ask Chris Johnson questions about, uh, football somewhere within the context of the conversation. Jeff, thank you for joining us. Uh, what did you think and what did you feel of the criticism?
Jeff Pearlman· Guest0:59
Uh, I'm not just saying this. I think as I get older, it doesn't really bother me nearly as much as it used to. Um, I just think, Dan, you and I were brought up as journalists in a decreasing, decreasingly less journalistic age. And to me, if you have a football player who is coming to say he has ALS, and there is a... There was a study just a couple of years ago from Boston University and Harvard saying that, uh, NFL players are four times more likely to get ALS than general people, general population.