D'Brickashaw and Kirsten Ferguson - Football, Faith and Family (Pt 2)
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Episode 212
D'Brickashaw Ferguson played 10 seasons in the NFL from 2006-2015, all with the New York Jets. He was selected 4th overall in the 2005 draft after playing college football at the University of Virginia.
He announced his retirement from football in April of 2016 at the age of 33.
In his decade of football, Ferguson played and started in every game of his career. He played in 10,707 out of 10,708 offensive snaps and was named to 3 Pro Bowls.
Married to his wife Kirsten, the couple has 2 daughters.
In part 2 of our two-part podcast, D'Brickashaw and Kirsten share the difficulties they walked through trying to become parents, what they learned from God in that process, how they bring faith now into parenting their 2 little girls, and what Sundays now look like after retiring from football.
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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. |
| 0:19.9 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with former New York Jet DeBricshaw Ferguson and his wife, Kirsten, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:13.5 | Today on the podcast, part two of our conversation with DeBricka Shaw and Kirsten Ferguson. DeBricashaw |
| 1:19.3 | Ferguson played 10 seasons in the NFL, all with the New York Jets, former offensive lineman, |
| 1:25.2 | three-time pro bowler, and he was one of those players that |
| 1:28.9 | never missed a game. We're talking about 167 games, 167 games played, 167 games started. That's what |
| 1:39.4 | it's about with this guy. He was an Iron Man. He never missed a game. He missed one snap. And if you |
| 1:44.1 | listen to part one of our conversation, a game. He missed one snap. And if you listen to part |
| 1:44.6 | one of our conversation, you'll hear what that one snap was. A great story because I always think, |
| 1:51.2 | man, your whole career, 10 years and you missed one play? What was that play? And it wasn't anything |
| 1:57.0 | to do with an injury, which you might think it would have been, but it was something else. |
| 2:01.3 | So go back, listen to Part 1 to hear that story and to hear their faith journey, how they came to Christ |
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