{"id":18585,"date":"2011-02-02T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:54:53","slug":"misogyny-and-other-super-bowl-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/02\/02\/misogyny-and-other-super-bowl-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogyny and Other Super Bowl Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-020211\/2011_02_02_zirin.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-020211\/2011_02_02_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/i\/tim\/\/2010\/03\/11\/es_pittfootballINTV2_0311_480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Roethlisberger\" \/>&#8220;Big Ben&#8221; Roethlisberger, the Pittsburg Steelers star quarter-back, will lead his team against Wisconsin&#8217;s Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Roesthlisberger, 28, is credited with being the power-house player behind the 2006 and 2009 Steelers&#8217; Super Bowl wins. His on-the-field-career is celebrated, but off-the-field he has a rocky past. Roethlisberger has twice been accused of sexual assault for incidents taking place in 2008 and 2010. Neither case went to criminal court, but one alleged victim is currently pursuing a civil suit. After the 2010 allegations were dropped the National Football League suspended Roethlisberger for violating the league&#8217;s personal conduct policy. The suspension was directly related to the circumstances surrounding the 2010 sexual assault allegations, which were made after Roethlisberger spent a night out drinking in a college-town bar. The NFL commissioner said Roethlisberger put college students and himself in danger by purchasing drinks for underage students and by drinking excessively. The initial suspension of 6 games was later reduced to 4, and Big Ben remains a celebrity. In the wake of last Spring&#8217;s allegations Sports reporter Dave Zirin said the NFL needed to send a strong message that misogyny and violence against women would not be tolerated. Women make-up football&#8217;s fastest growing group of fans.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Dave Zirin, new book, &#8220;Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Big Ben&#8221; Roethlisberger, the Pittsburg Steelers star quarter-back, will lead his team against Wisconsin&#8217;s Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Roesthlisberger, 28, is credited with being the power-house player behind the 2006 and 2009 Steelers&#8217; Super Bowl wins. His on-the-field-career is celebrated, but off-the-field he has a rocky past. Roethlisberger has twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}