Darren Woodson - Dallas Cowboys 3-time Super Bowl Champion
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Episode 536
Darren Woodson played 13 seasons as a safety in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys from 1992-2004. In 1992 he was selected in the second round by the Cowboys after a successful college career at Arizona State. Woodson was a member of three Super Bowl teams in 1992, 1993, and 1995, was a four-time first-team All-Pro, was selected to five Pro Bowls and in 2015, was elected to the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor.
After retiring in 2004, Woodson would move on to a successful career in broadcasting, where he was an NFL analyst with ESPN for over a decade. In 2005, he was inducted into the Arizona State University Hall of Fame and in April 2009, Woodson was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2020, he launched a new podcast called "The Darren Woodson Show."
Today on the podcast, we talk to Darren Woodson about starting his new podcast, his decision to leave ESPN, overcoming a Covid-19 diagnosis, how his faith in Jesus has guided him and what it was like to win Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.4 | My email address is Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:26.9 | Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
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| 0:30.2 | Any questions you might have. |
| 0:31.5 | Any thoughts on today's guest, Darren Woodson, or anything you want to add to today's show. |
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| 0:58.2 | partner today. Very excited to welcome Darren Woodson to Sports Spectrum today. Darren's one of |
| 1:05.1 | the great guys you'll ever meet. Longtime Dallas Cowboy played with the Cowboys from 1992 to 2004, retired after that 04 season, |
| 1:14.7 | originally selected in the second round of the 1992 NFL draft, 37th overall out of Arizona |
| 1:21.7 | State. He was a linebacker in college. He came to the Cowboys. They converted him to safety, |
| 1:26.8 | and he was a pretty darn good one. |
| 1:28.3 | He won three Super Bowls, a five-time pro bowler, a four-time first-team all-pro, |
| 1:34.7 | and then in 2015, he was named to the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor. |
| 1:39.8 | After retirement, he went on to have a long NFL broadcasting career at ESPN from 2005 to 2019. |
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