Ben Utecht, Super Bowl XLI Champion Tight End

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Episode 120

Ben Utecht played 6 seasons in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals. He was a 4-year starter at the University of Minnesota, but went undrafted in 2004 due to an injury.

He was signed by the Colts and head coach Tony Dungy. 2 years later, he was a part of a championship team, helping Indianapolis win Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears.

Ben signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2008 but soon thereafter, his career was over due to concussions.

9 years later, Utecht is now an author, speaker, musician, and business owner, sharing his story of faith and football.

On this episode of the podcast, Ben talks about overcoming 5 concussions, making the decision to retire, how he ended up on the Colts after a promise from Tony Dungy, what it is like to win a Super Bowl and how God has sustained him through the trials of post concussions symptoms, even to the point of thinking his mind might literally slip away.

You can order Ben's book "Counting the Days Until My Mind Slips Away" on Amazon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:14.9	collide.
0:16.1	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
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0:51.6	I promise you, you will not regret it.
1:01.5	Today's guest on the podcast, former NFL tight end Super Bowl 41 champion, Ben Utec is our guest.
1:06.7	He was a four-year starter at the University of Minnesota, grew up in Hastings, Minnesota,
1:11.2	and Ben then moved on to the NFL where he wasn't drafted, and in this podcast, he tells the story of how Tony Dungey, the former Colts coach,
1:16.2	the Hall of Famer, the man of faith, came, sought out and made a promise to Ben
1:21.6	and then eventually brought Ben to the Indianapolis Colts where he was a part of that team
1:26.3	for four seasons.
1:28.1	He won a Super Bowl there, Super Bowl 41 back in 2006, catching passes from guys like
1:33.3	Peyton Manning and certainly leading his team and helping to lead his team to a Super Bowl victory.
1:38.9	He also talks about the unique way that Tony Dungey incorporated faith into the Super Bowl
1:43.8	ring that Ben got and all
1:46.0	the other members of the Colts got, which is kind of cool. So definitely be listening for that.
1:50.7	But Ben's career started to take a turn for the worse, unfortunately, as he suffered five documented
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