Luke McCown - Former NFL Quarterback
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Luke McCown played quarterback in the NFL from 2004-2016. He was selected in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns. His 12-year career was spent with the Browns, Buccaneers, Jaguars, Saints and Falcons.
In 2017, he was inducted into the Louisiana Tech Athletics Hall of Fame. His brother Josh is a longtime NFL quarterback and his brother Randy played QB at Texas A&M.
Today on the podcast, Luke shares incredible stories of playing with Drew Brees, his first ever NFL start against Tom Brady, baptizing teammates in New Orleans and the importance of keeping Christ at the center of his life.
Check out Katy McCown's new book "She Smiles Without Fear."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:13.6 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.1 | Hey, guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:18.1 | I am Jason. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:20.4 | Got a really great conversation today |
| 0:22.9 | with Luke McCown, a longtime NFL quarterback. He played 13 seasons in the NFL with Cleveland, Tampa, |
| 0:31.0 | Jacksonville, New Orleans, Atlanta, and in 2017 was inducted into the Louisiana Tech Athletics Hall of Fame. |
| 0:39.6 | He was a stud quarterback in high school and in college. |
| 0:43.2 | In high school, he's from East Texas in that Tyler, Texas area, and grew up the youngest of three boys. |
| 0:49.2 | He also has a younger sister, and his oldest brother Randy McC, played quarterback at Texas A&M, his middle brother, |
| 0:57.2 | also his older brother, Josh McCown. |
| 0:59.2 | You guys know Josh played in the league for many years as an NFL quarterback and actually |
| 1:04.3 | has been on this show as well. |
| 1:07.1 | And then there's Luke. |
| 1:08.2 | And Luke has his own unique story selected in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL |
| 1:12.7 | draft, pick number 106 by the Cleveland Browns, and still ranks 25th on the list of NCAA, |
| 1:20.1 | Division I, FBS, career passing yardage leaders, 12,66 passing yards in college. We have a great conversation. I really didn't |
| 1:31.7 | know where this was going to go, but let me just tell you something. Luke McCown is one of the |
| 1:35.7 | great storytellers that we've had on this show. And the stories that he shares about, particularly |
| 1:42.2 | some Hall of Famers like Derek Brooks, his former teammate in Tampa, |
| 1:47.0 | and of course Tom Brady. |
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