Denny Duron - Louisiana high school football coach and pastor on new God. Family. Football.
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Denny Duron is the head football coach at Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana. The longtime senior pastor of Shreveport Community Church is a former college quarterback at Louisiana Tech. During his playing days, he helped his team to the 1972 and 1973 Division II national championship and was named 1973 Southland Conference MVP.
After college, he played in the World Football professional football league for two years and signed with the NFL's Washington Redskins in 1976.
Duron's Evangel Christian Academy football team is featured in the new Amazon freevee series God. Family. Football. streaming for free on the Amazon freevee app.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, Pastor Denny Duran, who's actually not a pastor. |
| 0:05.0 | He's the head football coach at Evangelist Christian Academy. |
| 0:08.3 | If you have Amazon Prime, I hope you've discovered this new series, God, family, and football. |
| 0:15.0 | It's free. |
| 0:15.7 | It's on the Amazon Prime app and the freebie area there in Amazon, and it's wonderful. |
| 0:22.1 | It's amazing. It came out September 1st. If you haven haven't watched it yet that's what we're going to talk about today |
| 0:25.6 | with Denny Duran who is the featured head coach of Evangelical Christian Academy that team is |
| 0:31.3 | featured in the series God family and football I loved it I loved it so much watching it |
| 0:36.3 | can't recommend it more. |
| 0:37.7 | And I think you're going to get a real big kick out of learning the story and the journey |
| 0:42.8 | of Denny Duran, the head coach at Evangelical Christian Academy. He played his college football at |
| 0:47.9 | Louisiana Tech. He was inducted into the Louisiana Tech Hall of Fame two-time national champion, |
| 0:56.8 | 1973 Southland Conference MVP. |
| 0:58.8 | He's a pretty good football player. |
| 1:04.2 | Man, does he have stories to share with you all here today on Sports Spectrum? |
| 1:06.5 | Pastor Denny Duran coming up in just a moment. |
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