REPLAY: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif: From Super Bowl Champ to the COVID Frontline

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🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As a bonus episode on the eve of Super Bowl LV, we are respinning our December show on Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. In February 2020, Duvernay-Tardif was hoisting the Lombardi Trophy after the Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV...and then, everything changed. With the world coming to a standstill as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Duvernay-Tardif, the only player in the NFL today with a medical degree, immediately took action and began working at a long-term healthcare facility in his native Quebec. In July, Duvernay-Tardif became the first NFL player to opt out of the 2020-21 regular season to continue his efforts on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19. Canada's TSN feature producer Matt Dorman has covered Duvernay-Tardif’s singular journey up-close, and shares his remarkable story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Pablo, and yes, I am invading your phone on a weekend, but here's why.
0:06.7	With the Super Bowl tomorrow, we wanted to bring you one of the best stories we've ever done about the Kansas City Chiefs from back in December.
0:13.6	It's about a player you will not see on the field this Sunday, because the Rant-Duvernais Tardif opted out of this season. The Montreal native happens to be
0:23.1	the only doctor in the NFL, and he's been using his medical degree to work on the front
0:27.9	lines of the coronavirus pandemic up in Canada. Laurent told the Washington Post recently that
0:33.5	he's missed football more and more as his team has plowed through the playoffs and now
0:38.3	plays for their second straight Super Bowl.
0:41.2	But he believes he made the right decision.
0:44.2	So here's the story.
0:49.4	I'm a huge Larry do-nate-R-D fan, so I understand the dedication that it takes to be a doctor.
0:57.0	We're all blessed to have doctors in our lives.
1:00.0	They're givers, they're not takers, they're givers, and so Larry has that quality.
1:07.0	I just think it's tremendous dedication to his profession, what his future is going to be,
1:13.3	and mainly to the people that he gets to help.
1:39.3	That was Chief's head coach Andy Reid, talking about a player who hasn't played a snap this whole season, but has contributed more in 2020 than anyone across the NFL. And while he's Larry in Kansas City, Laurent DuVernay Tardif is more than just a football
1:46.2	player in his native Quebec, Canada.
1:49.3	He's a hero.
1:51.2	Today, Matt Dorman, a fellow Canadian, tells the singular story of an athlete who passed
1:56.4	up a shot at another Super Bowl, for a job he deemed even more important.
2:04.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday
2:06.7	December 24th.
2:08.9	This is ESPN
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