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Sports Spectrum Podcast

David Nelson, Florida Gators National Champion Wide Receiver - THROWBACK

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

David Nelson won 2 National Championships at the University of Florida and caught touchdown passes from Tim Tebow. He was undrafted in 2010 and signed a free agent contract with Buffalo. His NFL career lasted 5 seasons with the Bills, Browns and Jets.

On this Throwback Thursday episode of the podcast, we hear David's story from Episode 11 on his former teammate Tim Tebow and the type of guy Tim is away from the field and the spotlight. 

You can listen to the entire interview with David here

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Transcript

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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

Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast. I am Jason Romano. Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast.

0:22.4

I am Jason Romano.

0:23.6

Thanks for joining us here on the program today.

0:25.7

As we do every single Thursday, we're going to look back at a previous episode on the Sports Spectrum podcast and play a little snippet just to give you a little snackable taste of the podcast and maybe

0:38.7

entice you to go listen to the entire interview.

0:42.2

And one of my favorite podcasts that we've done, and we did it early on, just a couple

0:46.9

months into the release of this podcast and the debut of this podcast back in late March

0:52.7

of 2017, was an interview we did with David Nelson,

0:57.1

former NFL wide receiver, played college football at Florida

1:00.5

and won two national championships there,

1:03.3

catching passes from Tim Tebow.

1:05.6

He was undrafted in 2010,

1:08.1

and then signed a free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills and played with the

1:11.5

bills, the Browns and the Jets and really just has a great heart for God and we talked a lot

1:18.5

in that podcast about how an encounter with a stranger is what actually led him to his faith

1:25.7

in Christ and just what time at Florida was like and just

1:31.0

becoming more of a man of God as he got to the NFL. But this little portion that we're

1:35.7

going to play for you on the Throwback Thursday edition was a question that I felt obligated to ask

1:40.9

about Tim Tebow and what his former teammate was really like, sort of behind

1:45.8

the scenes. We see Tim in the spotlight. Obviously, he's playing baseball now in the Mets

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