Chris Finke joins The Shamrock!
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the shamrock presented by BetMGM, the exclusive betting partner of the athletic signup at BetMGM.com using the promo code, the athletic pod. I'm Pete Sampson, |
| 0:22.6 | joined by my co-host Matt Fortuna today, special guests, former Notre Dame walk-on receiver |
| 0:28.6 | and former Notre Dame walk-on since he went on scholarship, Chris Fink. We wanted to have him on the show |
| 0:33.1 | for a while. But the fact there was an actual fox on a college football field really put that, |
| 0:39.9 | kind of spoke that into existence. Chris, I guess first, thanks for taking time to us catch people |
| 0:45.1 | up on kind of what you're up to as you're sort of kind of going through the NFL grind, |
| 0:50.4 | trying to stay with it and catch on. Yeah. First of all, thank you guys for having me on the show. |
| 0:56.6 | I really appreciate it. |
| 0:57.9 | It should be fun getting to talk some Notre Dame football with you guys. |
| 1:01.0 | But, yeah, so basically I'm in my second year trying to play in the NFL. |
| 1:07.1 | Kind of been plagued by injuries a little bit here and there. |
| 1:11.3 | So I had recovered from, you know, any injuries I had after the first year. |
| 1:16.4 | I was feeling really good. |
| 1:17.5 | It was with the Kansas City Chiefs all summer and playing well. |
| 1:20.3 | And, you know, then just went to training camp and got hurt again. |
| 1:23.0 | So I got let go and pretty much since then been rehabbing and staying in shape |
| 1:27.0 | and hoping I get another |
| 1:28.1 | chance this season. It's pretty volatile. We'll see if anything comes through, you know, |
| 1:33.0 | teams work out guys throughout the year. You know, having missed the preseason, that definitely |
| 1:38.8 | hurts me because there's no film out there for me. But, you know, I'm still working at it, |
| 1:43.7 | not giving up yet, and staying in shape |
| 1:45.8 | and hoping something comes through. Chris, this is a huge day for the pod. I'm sure if you're a |
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