Former NFL QB Randall Cunningham on his football career and being called to be a pastor
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Randall Cunningham played 16 seasons in the NFL as quarterback with the Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens. During his career, he was a four-time Pro Bowler and a three-time Bert Bell award winner for the NFL's player of the year.
The UNLV grad was selected in the second round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Eagles and played 11 seasons in Philadelphia and in 2009, was inducted into the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Randall Cunningham about being called to be a pastor, how the progression of his faith intersected with the progression of his football career, and the joy he finds watching his children participate in sports.
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| 0:46.7 | Welcome into the sports spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 0:52.2 | conversation. Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:58.6 | I am Jason, and this is Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:01.5 | We are so grateful that you have tuned in and are listening to today's show. |
| 1:06.2 | You can find us at our website, Sportspectrum.com, and that's what we do here. |
| 1:11.0 | We intersect sports with faith, and on this football Friday, therepectrum.com. And that's what we do here. We intersect sports with faith. |
| 1:12.8 | And on this football Friday, |
| 1:14.3 | there's no better guess that we can find to do that |
| 1:17.2 | than Randall Cunningham. |
| 1:18.4 | Pastor Randall Cunningham, |
| 1:20.3 | but he's also a former NFL MVP. |
| 1:22.5 | And if you're a kid who grew up in the 80s |
| 1:25.1 | and into the 90s, |
| 1:26.7 | Randall Cunningham's poster was on a lot of walls of a lot of my friends, |
| 1:30.8 | including my brother, Chris Romano, |
| 1:33.0 | who is the biggest Philadelphia Eagles fan that I know. |
| 1:36.4 | And all he wore was number 12 jerseys and had that number 12 poster hanging from his wall. |
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