Danny Wuerffel - Heisman Trophy Winning QB
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Episode 541
Danny Wuerffel is one of the most decorated college football players of all-time. He was a two-time SEC Player of the Year and won the Heisman Trophy in 1996, when he helped lead Florida to college football's national championship.
He was selected in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft by the Saints, and went on to play six seasons in the NFL from 1997-2002 with New Orleans, Green Bay, Chicago and Washington. In 2013, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Wuerffel is currently the executive director for Desire Street Ministries, helping under-resourced areas across the Southeast by partnering with leaders to create thriving and sustainable neighborhoods.
On today's episode of the podcast, we talk to Danny Wuerffel about navigating 2020, overcoming an autoimmune disorder, being sanctified and how he began to appreciate the forgiveness in God during college at Florida.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, guys. Welcome to the show. I'm Jason. My email host, Jason Romano. Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Jason. |
| 0:23.1 | My email address is Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:26.9 | Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:28.9 | You can email me directly. |
| 0:30.3 | I'd love to hear from you. |
| 0:31.3 | I'd love to hear from you. Any guest ideas that you might have for future shows here at Sports Spectrum? |
| 0:38.7 | Love to hear from you. |
| 0:39.6 | You can email me directly, jason at sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:43.3 | And we are presented today by Water Mission, a nonprofit Christian engineering ministry |
| 0:48.3 | that fights the global water crisis with safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing countries and |
| 0:56.1 | disaster areas. The work they do is so important. And you can learn more by checking out their |
| 1:02.6 | website, watermission.org. You can pray with them, fighting the global water crisis, watermission.org. |
| 1:10.5 | We're also presented today by Compassion International, the most |
| 1:14.3 | trusted child development ministry in the world. And right now you can join with compassion |
| 1:20.4 | and their pro-athlete friends to team up and help release children from poverty. That's right, children that are in poverty all around the |
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| 1:48.0 | release a child from poverty today. We are excited to welcome Danny Werfel for the first time to |
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