Chris Mortensen, ESPN Senior NFL Insider

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 249

Chris Mortensen is an award-winning journalist and one of the most respected and accomplished reporters covering the National Football League today. A senior NFL Insider, Mortensen joined ESPN in 1991. He regularly appears on NFL Insiders, NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, SportsCenter and other programs. Mortensen also contributes to ESPN’s annual Super Bowl week and NFL Draft coverage, and his work regularly appears on ESPN.com.

Mortensen, who was honored by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) with the prestigious Dick McCann Award for his long and distinguished contribution to pro football in 2016, has covered every Super Bowl since 1985 with the exception of Super Bowl 50 when he was forced to take a leave of absence after being diagnosed with Stage IV throat cancer. Even while undergoing treatment, Mortensen broke one of the biggest news stories of the NFL offseason when his report in March 2016 confirmed that future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning would retire after 18 NFL seasons.

Mort, as so many call him, is also a follower of Christ and on this episode of the podcast, he shares with us an update on his ongoing battle with cancer, his journey to faith in the Lord, how he navigates sharing his faith as a public figure, and the reason he has Matthew 18:6 on his Twitter page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Chris Mortensen from ESPN is brought to you by Compassion International.
0:27.4	We are so thankful and excited and grateful to have compassion as a sponsor here with our ministry at Sports Spectrum.
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1:12.2	Compassion.com slash sports spectrum. Compassion.com slash sports spectrum. $38 a month, release a child
1:20.4	from poverty today. I'm very excited to have Chris Mortensen as our guest today here on the podcast, the ESPN Senior NFL Insider.
1:30.8	He's been covering the NFL for so many years.
1:33.5	He's been at ESPN since 1991, and he won the Dick McCann Award back a few years ago in 2016,
1:42.0	honored by the professional football writers of America and received that award at the
1:47.3	Pro Football Hall of Fame in the ceremonies in Canton, Ohio.
1:52.2	And in this episode of the podcast, we talked to more about his career at ESPN and his career
1:57.3	covering football, but even more about the day he found out he had stage four throat
2:03.2	cancer in January of 2016.
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