Benjamin Watson, New Orleans Saints Tight End
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Episode 219
Benjamin Watson has played 15 NFL seasons as a tight end with the Patriots, Browns, Saints and Ravens.
After an all-SEC senior campaign with Georgia, he was drafted in the 1st round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots. As a Patriot, Benjamin received a Super Bowl ring in his rookie season of 2004 as well as appearing in another Super Bowl in 2007.
He also play with Cleveland, New Orleans, Baltimore and then returning to New Orleans in 2018 for what would be his final NFL season. Watson announced he was retiring from the NFL in late December after playing 15 years as a tight end. The 38-year-old caught 35 passes for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns this year as New Orleans received a bye and now has home field advantage throughout the 2018 playoffs as they look to make a Super Bowl appearance in Atlanta in early February.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Benjamin about his decision to retire, preparing for a final playoff run, his wife and he expecting twins, faith in the Saints locker room and his hosting Football Sunday in churches Super Bowl Sunday morning.
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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. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome, everyone, to the Sports Spectrum podcast. I am Jason Romano. Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.6 | And before we get to our interview with Benjamin Watson, New Orleans Saints' tight end, |
| 0:28.6 | I want to tell you about Football Sunday. |
| 0:30.6 | Football Sunday is a project that Sports Spectrum is a part of and has helped |
| 0:35.6 | created, along with our parent company, Pro Athletes Outreach and the Increase. And it's a part of and has helped created along with our parent company pro athletes outreach and |
| 0:39.3 | the increase and it's a collection of free media resources for churches to use on super bowl sunday |
| 0:46.2 | to create and introduce believers and nonbelievers to NFL athletes many of whom are playing in this |
| 0:52.8 | year's super bowl and who knows benjamin watson might be playing in this year's Super Bowl. And who knows, Benjamin Watson |
| 0:55.6 | might be playing in this year's Super Bowl as a member of the Saints. They have home field |
| 1:00.0 | advantage throughout. And they actually have the best chance of any team to make the Super Bowl, |
| 1:04.6 | which would be a pretty neat thing, to see Benjamin playing in the Super Bowl and also a part of |
| 1:08.6 | Football Sunday. Benjamin is the host of Football Sunday, and it's an evangelistic media presentation |
| 1:15.0 | that points unapologetically towards Jesus and displays how these NFL athletes are decreasing |
| 1:20.8 | so that the life of Christ might increase in and through them. |
| 1:25.6 | Now, this year, this is our fifth year doing this. We have stories |
| 1:28.8 | from quarterback Kirk Cousins of the Minnesota Vikings, Case Keenham from the Denver Broncos, |
| 1:34.9 | and linebacker DeMario Davis from the New Orleans Saints. It's all hosted like we said by our |
| 1:40.0 | guest today, tight end Benjamin Watson on location in New Orleans. And Football Sunday is a |
| 1:45.1 | movement that has gone global. And this year promises to speak to your church and your community. |
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