Faith & Football

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

Sports

4.4 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this week's episode, Adam sits down with two men (Eric LeGrand and Vernon Turner) who each share their incredible stories of inspiration, hope, and football. Both men hope to add some perspective and offer insight into their journey with football and how it helped them cope with their individual struggles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me tell you about Swagoo and Perkins, ESPN podcast led by its namesake hosts, Marcus Spears, Swagoo, and Kendrick Perkins.
0:08.9	Perk.
0:09.3	With new episodes every Tuesday morning, Spears and Perkins will bring listeners the latest NBA and NFL news, as well as look inside their lives, career journey with can't miss conversations.
0:20.5	That's Swagger and perk.
0:22.4	Listen wherever you get your podcasts and also available on ESPN's YouTube channel.
0:35.3	Welcome back to another Adam Schefter podcast. And on today's podcast, we are going to bring the
0:41.1	stories of two incredible men that provide inspiration, hope, and perspective. One is Eric LeGrand,
0:49.9	the former defensive tackle from Rutgers, and the other is former NFL wide receiver Vernon Turner,
0:57.5	whose life story is about to be turned into a movie. As for Eric Legrant, as we mentioned,
1:03.8	former defensive tackle turned entrepreneur. Legrant's life changed forever in October of 2010
1:10.0	after sustaining a spinal cord injury
1:13.5	that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
1:16.5	He does not let the injury define him.
1:18.4	LeGrand has since published a memoir.
1:20.8	He's created the Team LeGrand Foundation,
1:24.0	which has raised over $2 million for spinal cord research. And he's now channeling his
1:30.1	incredible spirit into his business, LaGran Coffee House, a brand new coffee house. He's opened
1:36.3	up in New Jersey that's thriving already, producing his own coffee beans, doing great work.
1:42.4	And he also is a whiskey company that's going to be producing
1:46.2	its own whiskey that's coming out here in the near future. LeGrand has continued to defy all odds,
1:53.0	and he always will. As for Vernon Turner, he basically rose from being a five foot six high school
1:59.1	quarterback to make it to the NFL, and now Hollywood
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