Matt Forte shares his NFL Draft Day experience in 2008 and what he learned at Easter Sunday service
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast:
- Matt and Jason talk Easter Sunday and Matt shares what he learned at church. (00:36)
- Matt shares his NFL Draft Day experience from back in 2008 when he was selected in the second round by the Bears. (15:45)
- Matt talks through his favorite running backs from this 2025 NFL Draft class. (29:24)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:30.1 | What's up, y'all? |
| 0:31.0 | It's Matt Forte here with Jason Romano as well on Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome again. |
| 0:36.2 | And, man, how was your Easter weekend? |
| 0:38.5 | Man, it was good. |
| 0:39.5 | It was packed, I'll say. |
| 0:42.9 | Saturday, we went and visited my family in New York, |
| 0:45.8 | my wife's family, and then Sunday. |
| 0:48.3 | We normally have two services at our church here in Connecticut, |
| 0:51.9 | Hillside Community Church, |
| 0:52.9 | and we did three services for Easter. |
| 0:55.5 | And, you know, I'm on the elder board and the leadership board. And, you know, I kind of take |
| 0:59.9 | ownership that if it's Easter, we're in it for all three. And that's kind of what we did. We attended |
| 1:05.2 | the first one. And then the other two, we kind of just helped out. I do announcements at my church every so often, so I did the announcements at church. |
| 1:13.0 | But it was busy. |
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