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🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Austin Ekeler. Running back. Fantasy stud. Twitch streamer? This man has a variety of interests off the field, in addition to absolutely killing it on the field. A fascinating conversation with a rising star, who took an unexpected path to the NFL. His stories about his college experience playing football will inspire the hell out of you.
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0:00.0 | What is up? How you living? How you doing? It is the LEF KOV. Man, and today I don't have a guy |
0:06.2 | that was born and linked in Nebraska, went to Colorado, came out of nowhere. |
0:10.6 | It was afterthought in the draft, came in as one of the most explosive running backs in the league right now. |
0:17.1 | I'm not on the call right now, a someone that is underrated, ready to put a spark back into this new |
0:22.4 | SoFi stadium. I am talking with the one the only, Austin Eckler Twitch streamer, who is ready to take |
0:29.1 | over the world as the first fully engaged Twitch streamer in the NFL. He's got his initials in the wall, Austin |
0:35.9 | Fuckin' Eckler. How you doing? Hey, yo, I appreciate that intro man, that was epic. I was like, I'm doing well, |
0:42.0 | but I'm doing what's glad to be here. I come on and he's wearing big headphones and I said, I am not going |
0:47.2 | to be outdone, even though I'm in an Airbnb, we're making it happen. Hey, find a way, right? |
0:53.3 | So listen, and I was ready to talk to you about all the football stuff. |
0:56.9 | And then I did my little research and I see these Twitch streams. And I see you talking to the |
1:03.1 | community and I see you giving out my favorite thing right now, sports cards and you're signing |
1:07.2 | memorabilia. You see the community. And I just want to know, is this something that you like watched a |
1:13.5 | lot as a kid and said, I want to do that? Or did this come out of nowhere and you were just enjoying |
1:18.2 | contents that I want to play? You know, it's kind of been a mixture of both, you know, before quarantine |
1:24.0 | started. I kind of watched Twitch here and there. I had like a little YouTube channel. So I |
1:28.8 | had been interested in content and I wanted to start creating my own and I found just my passion |
1:34.8 | and watching Twitch. I was like, you know, I wouldn't try that too. But at first I was like, oh, |
1:39.5 | I want to play video games. Like I see other people doing on Twitch and then quarantine happened. |
1:44.5 | And it was like an opportunity. It was like, there's no new content. Well, there's very limited |
1:49.2 | new content coming out. So I was like, well, this is an opportunity for me to, you know, get in touch |
1:55.0 | with my community. And at the same time, the things that I would be doing in the off season as far |
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