Benjamin Watson - Former NFL tight end on his trip to Kenya with Water Mission and Christ guiding his steps
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Watson played 16 seasons in the NFL with the Patriots, Browns, Saints and Ravens. He retired after the 2019 season with 547 career receptions and a Super Bowl championship. He is currently a college football analyst with the SEC Network and the vice president of strategic relationships with the Human Coalition.
As a speaker and author, Watson has used his NFL platform to share the love of Jesus and speak up on issues including race, abortion and justice. His latest book, “The New Fight for Life,” releases in June 2023.
On today’s podcast, former MLB pitcher Scott Linebrink joins Jason Romano to talk to Benjamin Watson about his recent trip to Kenya with Water Mission. Watson shares about the role of faith in his involvement with Water Mission and how they witnessed the presence of Jesus in the people they met.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? I'm excited about Sports Spectrum today. You know why? Because we got Benjamin Watson back on the show, the longtime NFL tight end, currently working with the SEC Network with college football in the fall, of course. And we are in the off season here, which means Ben is freed up to do some things like go on a trip to Kenya with Water Mission. |
| 0:20.9 | And that's what we want to talk about with Ben today and why it's important to get out of our comfort zones, go overseas and see what culture is like in a different land, particularly in Africa, which is where Ben and his dad recently went as part of a trip with Water Mission. |
| 0:39.2 | Now, you know about Water Mission. |
| 0:40.7 | They do amazing work, clean water, safe sanitation, hygiene solutions all over the country and the world. |
| 0:48.1 | And they're a Christian nonprofit, which makes them even more awesome because their mission is not just to bring clean water, |
| 0:55.1 | it's really to bring the gospel to as many people as possible. |
| 0:59.3 | And Scott Limebrink is an ambassador with Water Mission in a longtime Major League Baseball pitcher. |
| 1:04.3 | Scott's also going to join us today. |
| 1:06.1 | He's going to serve as a sort of co-host. |
| 1:08.6 | You know, Scott as the host of the Get in the Game podcast here on |
| 1:12.5 | Sports Spectrum. And Scott's going to sit in with me today. And we're going to talk to Ben Watson |
| 1:16.4 | about this trip to Kenya. I promise you, you're going to be really inspired. There's some |
| 1:21.8 | amazing stories. And I think you'll get a little bit more of an inside peak in the work that |
| 1:26.7 | Water Mission is doing, |
| 1:27.8 | which is just fantastic. |
| 1:30.0 | And that is coming up in just a moment here on Sports Spectrum. |
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