Freddie Stevenson - Former Florida State running back on coming back to God after hitting rock bottom
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Freddie Stevenson is a former fullback with Florida State, where he helped the Seminoles to a national championship in 2013. He is the author of "Trials to Triumph" released in 2021 and in 2023, he released the new documentary "Trials to Triumph."
Today on the podcast, we talked to Freddie Stevenson about his time at Florida State, winning a national championship, hitting rock bottom and choosing to come back to God.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, Freddie Stevenson, former Florida State National |
| 0:05.0 | Champion fullback from that 2013 team, that team with James Winston, that went all the way |
| 0:11.0 | and won the national title. That was the last year of the BCS championship before the college |
| 0:16.0 | football playoff began the following season. But Freddie Stevenson is not really here to talk football. |
| 0:22.7 | We'll talk a little football with him, but he's got a very powerful story. |
| 0:26.3 | This is a guy who went and hit rock bottom after his football career ended when he realized |
| 0:32.1 | that he wasn't going to get an opportunity to play professionally like he had hoped. |
| 0:37.4 | And many thought he had the talent, but politics come into play and opportunities don't |
| 0:42.0 | come along the way you would hope. |
| 0:44.3 | And Freddie kind of went to the dark side, if you will, after playing. |
| 0:48.8 | And God got a hold of him. |
| 0:51.0 | In fact, to the point where he released a book and a documentary on his life called |
| 0:56.0 | Trials to Triumph. So think about that. Trials to Triumph. That's a story that needs to be told. |
| 1:02.6 | And Freddie Stevenson, without God, he is nothing. Those are his words. And he's going to share his |
| 1:07.9 | powerful story coming up on Sports Spectrum. First, I want to tell you |
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