Inky Johnson - Former Tennessee Football Player, Motivational Speaker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today we listen to a portion of our inspiring interview with former Tennessee Volunteers football player Inky Johnson.
With a dream of playing in the NFL, Johnson rose from a life of poverty and drugs in the ghetto of Atlanta to play college football with the Volunteers. In 2006, his dream was shattered when he suffered a life-altering injury on the football field that would take him from starting defensive back to sitting in a hospital wondering if his life would ever be the same.
Today, Johnson travels the country sharing his story and encouraging others as a motivational speaker. He’s a mentor to many athletes and teams both in college and professional sports.
On this Throwback edition of the podcast, we turn it back to May of 2018, Episode 112 with Inky sharing his story of faith and how an accident on the football field changed his life forever.
You can listen to the entire interview with Inky from May of 2018 here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrums podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.6 | It's a throwback Thursday edition, and this one was one of my favorite interviews that we ever did, |
| 0:29.6 | and it was with Inkey Johnson, the former Tennessee defensive back and now motivational speaker. |
| 0:36.6 | If you've never heard of Inkey Johnson or know about any of his videos, |
| 0:41.3 | please go to YouTube and just Google his name or YouTube his name and watch and listen |
| 0:46.7 | and learn and be inspired. |
| 0:49.1 | Inky Johnson. |
| 0:49.8 | It was episode number 112 of the Sports Spectrum podcast, |
| 0:58.4 | and we're really only going to give you a little bit, a little taste of Inkey Johnson. |
| 1:08.1 | And then I want to encourage you to listen to the entire episode because, man, this guy is full of encouragement, full of positivity, and just a great dude. |
| 1:13.0 | He's a motivational speaker, former college football player with the University of Tennessee, |
| 1:19.2 | and he had a dream of playing in the NFL, rose from a life of poverty and drugs in the ghetto of Atlanta, made it all the way to Tennessee to play with the volunteers, and then in 2006, |
| 1:25.3 | his dream was shattered, and he'll tell that story on the Sports |
| 1:30.2 | Spectrum podcast. Throwback Thursday edition with Inkey Johnson, episode number 112 from May |
| 1:37.1 | of 2018. Take a listen to Inky Johnson on Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:43.4 | When did faith become part of your journey? |
| 1:46.9 | Was there any faith growing up as a kid? |
| 1:48.8 | Was that talked about? |
| 1:49.9 | Was church anything in your life at that time? |
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