Former NFL player and coach Jim Zorn on his love for Seattle and leading with Christ at the center
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jim Zorn is a former NFL player and NFL head coach who was the first ever starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks in their expansion season of 1976. Zorn would remain the starter for the next 7 seasons and finished his Seahawks career in 1984. After a few more seasons, he was finished with football after the 1987 season and then turned his attention to coaching.
In 2001, Zorn returned to the team he played with for so many years and was the quarterback coach for the Seahawks. In 2005, his team won the NFC championship and went on to Super Bowl XL against the Steelers. Zorn had a stint as an NFL head coach in 2008 and 2009 with Washington.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Jim Zorn about his NFL playing career, living his faith out each day, the comparisons of coaching and playing as a Christian and his desire to finish well as he approaches 70 years old in 2023.
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| 1:20.2 | spectrum podcast where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 1:24.0 | conversation. |
| 1:25.5 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 1:29.6 | Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.1 | I am Jason. |
| 1:32.9 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast, and we are so grateful that we get to do what we get to do here, |
| 1:38.9 | keeping Jesus in the sports conversation, and that we get to share the conversations |
| 1:43.6 | like the one today with Jim |
| 1:45.1 | Zorn to all of you. May God get the glory through his story and through this podcast. |
| 1:51.1 | And Jim Zorn is our guest today, the former NFL quarterback and former NFL head coach as |
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