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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Gamer BearDaBeast explains how Khyree Jackson could have made it in gaming

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Team, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Minnesota, Vikings, Sports

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Vikings draft pick Khyree Jackson said he nearly became a professional gamer rather than sticking with football so Matthew Coller visits TWolves Gaming star player BearDaBeast to find out what life is really like as a gamer and whether Jackson could have actually made the cut. Follow them on social media @TWolvesGaming and @BearDaBeast Then Hobie Artigue of WVID in Detroit (previously FOX9 in Minneapolis) joins the show to talk about covering JJ McCarthy up close last season and Detroit's outlook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Oh, Hey,

0:28.0

everybody welcome Inside Wisdom Gaming Studios here with T-Wolves Gaming.

0:33.8

Legend you want to go with, Bear Debeast,

0:36.7

and I'm sure that my audience is wondering

0:39.1

why I am here interviewing a 2K gamer,

0:42.3

but the reason is because the Minnesota Vikings drafted

0:45.7

Kyrie Jackson out of Oregon and Kyrie Jackson had a choice in his life of

0:50.6

whether to play football or to become a professional 2K

0:55.0

gamer. He chose football now he's with the Vikings I think he made the right

0:58.6

choice but that really got me thinking as a fan of video games what would it have been like if Kyrie Jackson had instead

1:05.7

chased the video game career?

1:07.3

So I found a guy who has a video game career in 2K. Bear, thanks for doing this man. I really appreciate it and I would love to just hear you talk about your career to start off and then we can talk about how you got here. But the day-to-day basis of being a professional

1:24.8

gamer what what is that like?

1:26.8

Shout out Kyrie because he's a really good guy had a few conversations with him.

1:30.3

Oh you did okay that's awesome he's a really good do but it's kind of just like any other

1:35.5

profession or any other job any other career we we put in a lot of time a lot of hours I could

1:40.4

say I wouldn't say it's so much nine to five because we play video game so in season we are we're

1:46.7

more like a 11 to five and then we go home from seven to whenever we can get some sleeve in.

1:54.0

So it's a lot of time, a lot of hours.

1:56.2

We enjoy what we do, so it makes it a lot easier to put the time in.

1:59.6

But for the most part, man, if you just think of NBA structure and not so much what it takes physically but the time that these guys the athletes have to put in if you think of my world consists of trees and sponsorships and the whole thing

2:18.6

is just kind of it's NBA but virtual. Yeah that makes sense. What is a practice like for you? I mean how do you go

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