Jason Wright - Team President for the NFL's Washington Football Team
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Jason Wright is president of the Washington Football Team. His responsibilities include leading the organization's business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing.
He is the first Black team president in the history of the NFL and currently is the youngest team president in the League. He is the fourth former NFL player to become president of a team.
On today's podcast, we talk to Jason about his new role, the importance of the golden rule in his job, why integrity is important, how his faith strengthened during a poignant time in college and how being an NFL running back has helped him in his new role with Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. My email address that I like to give out to everyone is Jason at sportspectrum.com. Jason at Sportspectrum.com. We're so glad you tuned into today's show. And I'd love to have any feedback from you. Maybe you have a thought on today's show. |
| 0:37.7 | Maybe you have a guest idea. |
| 0:39.1 | Maybe you just want to say hello. |
| 0:40.6 | You can reach me directly, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:44.5 | We are presented today by the International Justice Mission, and their goal, their hope, is to end slavery in our lifetime, and they are helping to protect |
| 0:55.7 | more than 150 million people from violence across the world. |
| 1:00.3 | It's a great opportunity for you to join the fight against violence and oppression with |
| 1:04.7 | IJM by checking out their website, IJM.org slash TF, IJM.org slash TF to become a freedom partner today. |
| 1:16.5 | Today on sports spectrum, we welcome Jason Wright. |
| 1:19.8 | He is the team president for the Washington Football Club in the NFL. |
| 1:24.8 | He's the first black team president in the history of the NFL, named to his position |
| 1:30.3 | August 17th, 2020. Before his role with Washington, he was an NFL player. From 2004 to 2010, |
| 1:42.0 | he played running back in the NFL with the 49ers, the Falcons, the Browns, and the Cardinals. |
| 1:47.8 | And in his words, he was cut a lot. |
| 1:51.3 | And so he really went through what a lot of guys go through in the NFL, kind of team to team, trying to make it, trying not to get cut. |
| 2:03.1 | And, of course, the numbers game in the NFL dictates that some players unfortunately do get let go. Interestingly enough, Jason |
| 2:08.1 | was undrafted coming out of Northwestern in 2004. And in 2003, he won the Bobby Bowden Award and was |
| 2:16.7 | a co-MvP of the 2003 Motor City Bowl. |
| 2:20.1 | He left as Northwestern's fourth all-time leading rusher with 2,625 yards, |
| 2:25.3 | and the third all-time all-purpose yards leader with 4,030 yards, |
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