David Nelson, Former NFL and Florida Gators WR

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Episode 11

David Nelson won 2 National Championships at the University of Florida and caught 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.

During the 2012 NFL offseason, David took a trip to Haiti that would change his life. Seeing the conditions, the children, the poverty, Nelson felt called to do more and began a ministry called ImMe to bring the sustaining and empowering structure of family to the orphans of the world through care, prevention, and stewardship.

On this episode of the podcast, David Nelson talks with Jason Romano about his faith, the moment where a stranger helped make an encounter with Christ become real, his early struggles in college at Florida under Urban Meyer, and how his teammate Tim Tebow, helped show him what it really meant to be a man of God.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:09.7	collide.
0:10.9	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:14.1	And welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:16.9	My name is Jason Romano.
0:18.5	This is episode number 11. And we are so grateful and thankful to have you
0:23.1	joining us here. My prayer is that you become encouraged. My prayer is that you become educated. My prayer
0:29.4	is that you become entertained in the Lord in listening to the stories of these different people
0:34.5	intersecting the world of sports and of faith.
0:38.8	As always, you can leave a review on iTunes.
0:41.3	Just search Sports Spectrum and you can write your review.
0:44.6	And we've had so many wonderful messages and reviews left from people.
0:49.2	So we are thankful for that.
0:50.9	And as always, Sportspectrum.com is our home.
0:53.9	You can check that out. Lots of great articles
0:55.7	there, daily content, including a daily devotional every morning at 6 a.m. that's published.
1:01.1	So definitely check that out as well. Today's guest is David Nelson, and he joins us on the
1:09.2	podcast. He is a former NFL wide receiver. He won two national
1:13.1	championships as a member of the Florida Gators. You might have heard of his quarterback, a guy named
1:17.5	Tim Tebow. He played with the Bills and the Browns and the Jets from 2010 to 2014. And he and his
1:24.6	brother Patrick have started a nonprofit organization called I Am Me,
1:29.6	the letter I, the letter M, and then the word me, that focuses on ending the orphan cycle in Haiti.
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