Craig and Rachel Terrill - Life as a married couple in the NFL - Episode 39
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Craig Terrill played 7 seasons as a defensive tackle in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks from 2004-2010.
He was selected in the 6th round by Seattle (189th overall) and was part of four NFC West division championships (2004-2007) and a member of the 2005 Seahawks team that won the NFC and made it all the way to Super Bowl XL.
Dubbed “Dr. Love” for her work on marriage and relationships, Dr. Rachel Terrill is passionate about making marriages work.
When Rachel's husband was drafted to Seattle in 2004, Rachel launched what has become a thirteen year journey of investigating love and marriage in the NFL. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from The University of South Florida. Her research interests include relational communication - what makes people fall in love and what makes people stay in love.
Rachel teaches at Purdue University and Northwest University, writes for the National Football League’s Player Engagement website, and serves as a family advisor for the NFL Players Study at Harvard University.
Rachel and Craig are the parents of three daughters.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Craig and Rachel about their journey to the NFL, what it was like to find out your life was changing the instant you are drafted into the NFL, the myth on relationships in sports, and how the glorious life in the NFL isn't so glorious.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:09.8 | collide. |
| 0:10.8 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:13.7 | This is episode number 39 of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:18.4 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.7 | Thank you so much for being a part of our program today. |
| 0:22.4 | Wherever you are listening, we do appreciate you tuning in and checking us out. As always, |
| 0:27.3 | you can subscribe and download the podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, |
| 0:32.6 | everywhere podcasts are found. We are there. And of course, all of our content is found at sportspectrum.com, |
| 0:40.9 | where we have daily articles, a daily devotional, and all of our content, including the podcast there. |
| 0:45.7 | So check it out. Everything is at sportspectrum.com. Today's guest, it's a different type of |
| 0:51.6 | interview that we've done on the podcast. It was actually one of the first ones we ever taped we taped this back in early march in Orlando Florida at a conference that |
| 1:01.0 | I was at our guests are Craig Terrell who played with the Seattle Seahawks for seven seasons and his |
| 1:07.6 | wife Dr. Rachel Terrell now most interviews that we do are just with the athlete, just with the player. |
| 1:16.1 | And Craig was great. |
| 1:17.2 | Craig played seven seasons in the NFL. |
| 1:19.0 | He retired in 2011. |
| 1:21.9 | Staple with the Seattle Seahawks played his entire career there. |
| 1:25.3 | So you might recognize his name, but his wife, Dr. Rachel Terrell, |
| 1:29.1 | also joins us. And she's unique because right now she's working and Craig staying home taking |
| 1:35.8 | care of their daughters. But also, Rachel, she did this eight-year plan, sort of a study on |
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