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The WODcast Podcast

453 Vince Papale and Dennis Franks - Former NFL Football Players

The WODcast Podcast

The Wodcast

Health & Fitness, Sprinting, Functional, Crossfit, Weightlifting, Fitness, Gymnastics, Crossfitgames

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

These two former NFL football players have a special connection to the WODcast. One is the father-in-law to Eddie and the other is the person that the film Invincible with Mark Wahlberg was based.

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Wodcast podcast. I'm your host Eddie Eft coming at you right now from Charlotte North Carolina.

0:11.0

I am not touring I am not touring. I am on vacation, Christmas vacation with the family at

0:17.7

the in-laws where I recorded this episode. Pretty unique experience. I am doing some shows while I was here. I did a

0:26.6

show the other night here in Charlotte and I've got one more in Concord, which is right outside of Charlotte on the 23rd of December.

0:36.0

I'll put it on my site, I think, if you want to get tickets, some people have asked me about it.

0:42.0

It's pretty good to be back. I'm going to

0:45.4

be doing a lot of shows coming up in January, February, March and my album's coming

0:49.7

out the end of February, so big tour starting in March with that. My album's called Sweet Home

0:56.1

Alabama it's going to be available on iTunes and everywhere else you name it it'll

1:00.8

be there. But I am here doing you know at doing all the family

1:08.7

stuff and I had the I was lucky enough to my father-in-law is a former NFL football player

1:16.8

played for the Philadelphia Eagles in the late 70s or early 80s. And his best friend was over, who I had do the podcast with him.

1:30.8

And his friend is a guy by the name of Vince Papale you might know him from

1:36.6

the film Invincible which was based on his life. Mark Walberg played him in

1:41.8

the movie and it was a movie about

1:47.4

Vince was basically a lifelong football fan who had his dream come true and walked on to the Philadelphia Eagles and

1:55.6

tried out and while he was a high school teacher and became a player on the he was the oldest rookie in NFL history who got to play who played for

2:10.1

the Philadelphia Eagles. So, pretty incredible story and turned into a movie.

2:16.8

I mean, it's a real live rocky story.

2:19.0

And I've known Vince for a while,

2:21.6

and it was really nice to talk to him. He's very big into training, so is my father-in-law, and they're very big into nutrition and health.

2:29.4

So it was interesting to talk to them, someone from their generation, from their experiences in the

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