BONUS EPISODE: Matt Forte joins us to announce his retirement from the NFL
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
After playing 10 seasons in the NFL, running back Matt Forte has announced his retirement from professional football.
On this bonus episode of the podcast, Matt shares exclusively with Sports Spectrum why he decided to retire, the role his faith in Christ played in his decision, his favorite memory as an NFL player, his love for the Chicago Bears fans and why preaching the Gospel and making disciples is his number one priority in retirement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports collide. |
| 0:09.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome everyone to a special edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.7 | It is great to have you joining us on the program today. |
| 0:20.0 | Joining us as our guest is Matt Forte, 10 years in the NFL with both the Chicago Bears and the New York Jets. |
| 0:27.4 | And Matt today announced his retirement from the NFL after 10 professional football seasons. |
| 0:33.4 | He announced that on Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:35.1 | You can check that out over at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:38.0 | And we welcome Matt here to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | Matt, how are you? |
| 0:42.7 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:43.6 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:44.5 | It's good to have you. |
| 0:45.4 | Good to talk to you, my friend. |
| 0:46.7 | And congratulations on an amazing NFL career. |
| 0:49.8 | And I'm really just curious about the moments that you kind of started thinking about retirement. |
| 0:54.7 | Take me into that moment. |
| 0:56.0 | When you first started thinking about making that decision, what led you to make the decision |
| 1:00.1 | to end your pro football career right now? |
| 1:04.2 | A lot of moments that go into it before, you know, actually after my ninth season and |
| 1:10.6 | heading into my 10th season, I was already, you know, thinking about, you know actually after my ninth season and heading into my 10th season I was |
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