Former Alabama football player Keith Pugh on playing for coach Bear Bryant and going into ministry
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Keith Pugh played football with the University of Alabama from 1977-1979. The wide receiver was a member of the 1978 and 1979 Crimson Tide national championship teams. After football he went into ministry and served as a senior pastor in several churches in Alabama for multiple decades.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Keith about his time at Alabama, playing football under coach Bear Bryant, giving his life to Christ and making the decision to go into ministry as a pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by our friends at Compassion International. |
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| 1:12.0 | You can sponsor that child right now, or you can pray about it, talk about it with your family, |
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| 1:22.3 | Compassion International. |
| 1:24.2 | Check them out at compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 1:37.3 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 1:42.8 | conversation. Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 1:47.7 | And hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. I am Jason Romano. And so glad you're joining us here |
| 1:52.7 | on the Sports Spectrum podcast. We are the intersection of sports and faith here in |
| 1:58.1 | 2023. It's amazing to think this is year six of the sports spectrum podcast and our goal, |
| 2:05.5 | our desire, our heart. |
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