Who is Steve Almond? How did he react to the Ingraham angle?

Damar Hamlin’s injury was the subject of Steve Almond’s appearance on Laura Ingraham’s show, but he was cut for criticizing the presenter. Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills collapsed to the ground after making contact with the Cincinnati Bengals’ Tee Higgins on a play Monday night.

The 24-year-old man got up after a fall and appeared to have recovered from his accident. The tragic event has sparked new concerns about the mental and physical health risks associated with playing soccer.

On Wednesday, author Steve Almond appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham to rekindle the age-old controversy over whether or not the violent sport should be banned in the United States. Until Almond brought up Laura’s earlier controversy, he was allowed to speak about the importance of economic incentives in making the game safer.

Who is Steve Almond?

Steve is a writer and essayist originally from Palo Alto, California. He was born on October 27, 1966. The 56-year-old author has had two books hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list: Candy Freak and Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto.

The latter talks about his time as a football enthusiast that lasted four decades before finally giving up. For the reasons he lays out, Almond wants the sport as a whole, not just the NFL, abandoned because he believes it encourages and even promotes greed, racism and violence.

Against Football also raises concerns about young players risking serious health problems, such as brain damage, because of a professional football career. He wonders, “What does it mean that in 2014 America’s most popular and unifying form of entertainment depicts huge muscular guys, largely African Americans, engaging in a sport that leaves many of them brain-damaged?”

Before writing his debut book, My Life in Heavy Metal, Almond worked as a newspaper writer in Texas and Florida. His second book, Candy Freak, won the American Library Association’s Alex Award and was selected as Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year.

He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Los Angeles Times, and his most recent pieces can be seen on WBUR. In his spare time, he enjoys hanging out with his wife Erin and their three children at their home outside Boston.

What did Steve Almond say about the Ingraham Angle?

According to Almond, if the NFL is financially motivated to enforce safety regulations, they will. He suggested a PR crisis, using the example of the Parkland shooting incident that had recently rocked Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show.

“Economic incentives are the main driver of behavior change,” he said. As an example, “When you mocked the survivor of the Parkland mass tragedy a few years ago, you only apologized after advertisers pulled out of your show.”

After Ingraham cut Almond, she said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice try, little man,” and then immediately ended the show. You have my thanks. This is typical behavior for them,” she continued. Watch the full video here. The host was called out for a tweet mocking David Hoga survivor of the 2018 Parkland Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, supposedly rejected by four institutions.

Consequently, Hogg tweeted a list of companies advertising on The Ingraham Corner, calling on them to end their sponsorship. After more than a dozen advertisers, including Nestlé and Tripadvisor, withdrew their support, Laura issued an apology.

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