Ryan Shazier On His Perilous Football Journey

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to former Pittsburgh Steeler Ryan Shazier about his new book: Walking Miracle: How Faith, Positive Thinking, and Passion for Football Brought Me Back from Paralysis...and Helped Me Find Purpose.

We also got “Just Stand Up” and “Sit Your Ass Down” awards to a courageous Formula 1 driver who is speaking out against racism in the sport, and Enes Freedom, who appears to be posturing as a right-wing NBA athlete that the Fox News crowd can support. Don’t miss another great edition of Jake’s Takes as well. All this and more on this week’s show!

Ryan Shazier

Twitter: @RyanShazier

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0:00.0	Welcome to the edgy sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. This week we are talking to former
0:15.4	Pittsburgh Steeler Ryan Shazir. And if you don't know Ryan Shazir's story, you probably don't
0:20.8	follow the NFL.
0:22.6	He's the player who in a fateful game several years back against the Cincinnati Bengals
0:26.7	lost his ability to move. He was paralyzed with a back injury. And he's come just about all the way
0:36.1	back. So he does a book out about it called Walking Miracle,
0:41.0	how faith, positive thinking, and passion for football brought me back from paralysis
0:45.9	and helped me find purpose.
0:48.1	He co-wrote the book with Larry Platt.
0:50.3	He's a great writer.
0:51.6	So I'm very excited to be talking to Ryan Shazir about this today.
0:55.9	Also, I got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards.
0:59.1	I got Jake's takes.
1:00.7	And I got a quick word from Kaepernick Watchland for the first time in a hot minute.
1:05.7	But first, let's talk to the great Pittsburgh Steeler, Ryan Shazir.
1:15.0	Thank you. to the great Pittsburgh Steeler, Ryan Shazir. First and foremost, just to get it started, how are you doing?
1:18.3	How's life? What's life like for Ryan Shazir right now?
1:21.7	Oh, I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Right now, life is going well.
1:28.3	My health, I feel it's doing good, I'm constantly getting better.
1:32.3	My family continue to do well.
1:35.3	Right now, I'm an entrepreneur, so I've been a little bit busy with that,
1:42.3	so that's kind of exciting. And then with the book
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