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🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Episode 421
Mike DeVito played nine seasons in the NFL with the Jets and the Chiefs. He was undrafted coming into the league in 2007 from the University of Maine, where he was a First-Team Atlantic 10 selection his senior year.
During Mike's career, he played in two AFC Championship games with the New York Jets in 2009 and 2010 and retired from the NFL in April of 2016 at the age of 32.
Mike is currently back in college studying theology and philosophy and also is the co-host of his 3-Point Stance podcast.
On this episode of the Sports Spectrum, we talk to Mike about the difficult adjustment to NFL retirement, enrolling back full-time into college, coming to Christ in 2007 and managing pain as an NFL defensive lineman.
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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. |
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| 1:32.7 | Today on the podcast, one of my favorite interviews that we've done in a while, and this is with |
| 1:37.6 | Mike DeVito. |
| 1:38.5 | Mike is a former NFL defensive lineman played nine seasons in the NFL with the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs. |
| 1:47.0 | He was with the Jets from 2007 to 2012, played with Brett Favre in that 2008 season with the Jets, |
| 1:54.0 | and then led by Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez, played in two AFC championship games in 2009 and 2010 with the Jets. |
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