When Football Was Played In An Internment Camp (Rebroadcast)

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government did something that it later apologized for and called a grave error: it rounded up and forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Japanese Americans, moving them to internment camps where they lived in extremely harsh conditions for years. Inside one of those camps, near Topaz, Utah, a high school football team was formed and surprised many of the local teams it played against. The Athletic's Christopher Kamrani brings us the story of Topaz High, where a group of high school kids used America's most beloved sport to show that they, too, were Americans. (This episode originally aired on November 6, 2020.)

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