Benjamin Watson - Former NFL tight end returns to discuss college football players being bold in their faith
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Watson is a former NFL tight end and current college football analyst with the SEC Network.
Today, Benjamin returns to Sports Spectrum to discuss the influx of college football players that have been bold in their faith and how they can live that faith out to help backup their proclamation. We also preview the CFB National Championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame and Benjamin and Matt make their championship picks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20, splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.2 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.3 | Forte, Diamond Catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.2 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:31.0 | What's up, Sports Spectrum? |
| 0:32.4 | It's Matt Forte here with my man Jason Romano, Jay Nice, as we call him. |
| 0:36.5 | And I got my man Ben Watson, my big brother |
| 0:38.6 | in the pro athletes arena, my big bro. And we, I mean, we had a heck of a weekend with football, |
| 0:45.9 | college and pro, and we got a heck of a weekend coming up. And I wanted to talk to Ben, |
| 0:49.9 | who is an analysis for the SEC network as well. And so he knows these guys. I don't know these guys. You know, I know one guy. We interviewed him from Ohio State in Mecca, Egbuka. And I know him, but, you know, yeah, it's too many guys to keep up with. I don't know how you do it, Ben, but you do. Well, I do you do SEC. I said, I just do the SEC, and we don't have anybody in the game, unfortunately. |
| 1:14.2 | So, you know, some people watching like y'all. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, yeah, that's why we got you on here, too, because you know all these college athletes. |
| 1:23.2 | But you had a tweet about these college athletes. |
| 1:28.1 | And shout out to all the chaplains and the spiritual leaders on these teams. |
| 1:31.6 | Because if you've noticed this year, maybe a little more than usual that a lot of guys are using their platform to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ and how faithful he is, has been in their lives. |
| 1:43.9 | And whether win or |
| 1:45.4 | loss, they've been able to do that and be unashamed of the gospel. So Jason, please read that |
| 1:51.8 | tweet that been tweeted out. Yeah, absolutely. He tweeted it out a few days ago. And I, you know, |
| 1:58.4 | we've been seeing it really throughout just for context for those listening. |
| 2:01.8 | I'm sure they know this, that, you know, not just Ohio State or Notre Dame, but so many |
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