Mark Chapman meets….JJ Watt

Football Daily

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

NFL legend and Burnley co-owner JJ Watt chats to Mark Chapman. They discuss everything from bench pressing with the Burnley players to the uncertainty of the NFL draft. Watt opens up on why he decided to invest in Burnley – and why once he did so, he was determined to win over the fans, just as he did after moving to Houston as an American footballer. They also discuss goalkeeper James Trafford, the difference between sports that do and do not have relegation and the contrasting schedule between the NFL and the EFL.

TIMECODES 0 mins: JJ’s interest in learning about the business of football 4 mins: The importance of community when you join a club 5 mins: The danger element of investing in a sport that has relegation 8 mins: The insight that JJ can offer the board as a former professional athlete. 12 mins: James Trafford – and the art of goalkeeping 16 mins: The difference in football and NFL schedules 19 mins: JJ’s experiences in the NFL draft 25 mins: The big salaries paid to sportsmen and how they handle them 26 mins: The importance of giving back

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0:00.0	Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.
0:05.0	But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,
0:09.0	lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.
0:13.0	On a match day, everyone was your enemy.
0:15.0	We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.
0:19.0	It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.
0:22.6	They were destroying the football club.
0:24.9	The game I alone.
0:26.0	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:30.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.1	The Football Daily Podcasts with Mark Chapman.
0:41.4	JJ What?
0:42.3	Hello, welcome to the Football Daily.
0:44.2	Thank you very much for being here.
0:45.6	You've just come out of a Burnley board meeting.
0:49.1	Do you enjoy those?
0:50.3	I told them at the end.
0:51.2	I said, I'm going to do a BBC interview now.
0:53.7	You guys will see all this on TV in about an hour.
0:56.7	Everything we just talked about, open book on it. No, it was good. It was really good. I mean, it's certainly one of the most
1:02.8	enjoyable parts for me because that's why I got into all this is the passion, the history to the tradition, but also I love the competition aspect of it,
1:13.0	the business side of it, seeing how you can improve not only on the pitch but off the pitch,
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