Ben Malcolmson, Seattle Seahawks Director of External Relations
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 144
Ben Malcolmson's official title is "Director of External Relations" for the Seattle Seahawks but if you see how around the team complex, his real title is "Assistant to the Head Coach."
Ben is the right hand man to Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who he met during his time as a student at the University of Southern California in the mid-2000's.
His first book was just released, "WALK ON: From Pee Wee Dropout to the NFL Sidelines - My Unlikely Story of Football, Purpose and Following an Amazing God." and is available on Amazon and everywhere books are found.
On this episode of the podcast, you'll hear the crazy story of how Ben went from hating football to covering football to then playing football at USC. A modern version of RUDY, Ben's journey included opportunities for him to live out his faith in the locker room and seeing how God can take terrible situations and turn them around for his glory.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.8 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Ben Malcumson of a CIA. Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:28.6 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Ben Malcumson of the Seattle Seahawks is brought to you in part by Compassion International. |
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| 0:45.5 | Today's guest on the podcast, he is Pete Carroll's right-hand man with the Seattle Seahawks. |
| 0:51.6 | His name is Ben Malcomson. |
| 0:53.9 | His official title is the Director of External Relations with the Seattle Seahawks. His name is Ben Malcumson. His official title is the director of |
| 0:55.7 | external relations with the Seahawks. And Ben has written a new book called Walk On, |
| 1:02.1 | from Pee We Dropout to the NFL sidelines, my unlikely story of football, purpose, and following |
| 1:09.4 | an amazing god. And Ben just released this book recently, and following an amazing God. |
| 1:14.7 | And Ben just released this book recently, and he joined us here on the podcast, |
| 1:17.4 | really enjoyed talking to him about his story. |
| 1:22.6 | And I first met Ben, and I'll mention this in the beginning of the podcast, back in 2010. |
| 1:27.8 | And it happened to be the day that Yankees owner George Steinbrenner passed away. |
| 1:31.7 | And that was the day that Pete Carroll had come to ESPN. |
| 1:37.3 | And I was assigned to spend the day with Pete and walk him around and take him on all the different shows at ESPN. |
| 1:41.2 | And there was this guy, Ben, who was trickling along behind him. |
| 1:46.1 | And Ben's job was actually to capture all the social media for Pete Carroll while he was walking around ESPN. So I first met Ben then in person. And that was when |
| 1:52.2 | coach Pete had his book come out. And now Ben has his book. And I'm excited to have you hear his |
| 1:57.9 | story because it's really a powerful one.'s really it's one that is just it just |
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