Former NFL QB Jeff Kemp on football, faith and following God's call on his life
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Kemp is a former NFL quarterback who played 10 years of pro football from 1981-1991 with the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks and Philadelphia Eagles. He had his best season in 1984, where he led the Rams to a 10-6 record and a playoff berth.
Growing up in the 1960's, Jeff Kemp watched his father Jack Kemp win multiple AFL championships as a quarterback with the Buffalo Bills. Jack Kemp was also a well known politician who went on to run for president. Jeff, post-playing career, is now a motivational speaker and author, and an ambassador for the Fatherhood CoMission.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Jeff about his NFL playing career, playing with Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Eric Dickerson, Jerry Rice, Steve Largent and Reggie White, the parallels of football and faith and why Jeff knew his post-playing career calling was to go into ministry.
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| 1:22.7 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports conversation. |
| 1:29.6 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
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| 2:12.9 | Now, we got a great conversation today with Jeff Kemp. |
| 2:15.8 | And I began the conversation telling him that I was a child of the 80s. |
| 2:20.1 | And so where I began my formative years of loving sports was usually in that early 1980 frame to the mid-1980s. |
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