Emmanuel Acho

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Emmanuel Acho is a former college and NFL linebacker. He currently works in television as a football analyst. He dropped in to The Forward studio to talk: paying NCAA athletes, the business of football, the helmet technology in contact sports. He also discusses his family work in Nigeria and his experience in getting cut by NFL teams at interesting times.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to the forward podcast. I'm your host, Lance Armstrong.
0:05.2	How's everybody doing? You have a good holiday weekend. Hotter and hell down here in Austin.
0:12.3	Like I say every week, any questions, comments, concerns, suggestions,
0:17.5	funny stories, whatever it is you want to do send me an email the forward podcast
0:21.6	at we do Sport.com.
0:24.0	My guest this week is Emmanuel Acho.
0:29.0	An amazing conversation.
0:31.0	And for you non-Texas Longhorn fans, bear with the first part of this conversation.
0:37.3	Obviously a lot going on here in Austin with the University of Texas and their football program.
0:41.5	After the first game, they were favored by 18 points against a team that looked like they should have been at the Kentucky Derby.
0:48.0	They lost by 10. Had to talk about it.
0:51.0	Emmanuel, so for you, well, I should say for you UT fans, you're going to love. talk about 10
0:55.0	10 minutes, I should say for you UT fans,
0:54.0	you're gonna love what he has to say.
0:56.6	And for you non-UT fans, give it about 10 minutes
0:59.2	because it gets this one.
1:01.6	Everybody in the room today said, wow, everything from head injuries, CTE,
1:07.8	growing up as a first generation American to Nigerian parents, all the humanitarian work that he does down there with his father's charity
1:16.3	Living Hope Ministries, calling Kapernick.
1:20.5	We talk, should student student college student athletes who make hundreds of millions of dollars for their universities should they be paid or compensated in some way and finally
1:31.3	the best part or the cutest part of the whole thing we talk about how a girl
1:35.1	he didn't even know asked him to go be her prom date her senior year in high school in Virginia. He said, well if you get 2,000
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