What's up, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum.

I am Jason Romano.

Today on the show, we get an opportunity to do this each and every year.

And today we're going to hear from members of the San Francisco 49ers, your NFC champions for the 2023 season as we get ready for Super Bowl 58 on Sunday.

49ers against the Chiefs.

The first conversation you're going to hear is an opportunity to talk to Brock Purdy, 49ers quarterback, at media availability earlier this week. Brock Purdy, 49ers quarterback. Take a listen. Brock, let me ask you a question about your faith. Jesus. How you doing? Doing good. How you doing? Good. Tell me about scripture this year. Some of the Bible verses that you've been reading and passages that's maybe helped you this year. Yeah, this year for me, it's been Psalm 23. Yeah, the Lord is my shepherd. I have what I need. He lets me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. And then it goes on. But for me, you know, playing this game, playing this sport, there's a lot that goes into it.

And, you know, you can, it's easy to get wrapped up in, you know, wanting and feeling, like, wanting to be loved.

You know, obviously by your teammates and everybody, but like the world.

And so, for me, like in that passage, it's talking about, you know, I already have what I need from the Good Shepherd and Jesus.

So, I don't know.

I've just been studying Psalm 23 throughout the whole season and been going back to it.

It's what I start off with actually every single day.

I just read off Psalm 23 to myself before I start off with some solitude and then I go about my day. I talked to your dad a couple days ago. He said he prays his guts out when he watches you play. Yeah. Do you pray when you're playing during a game? Yeah, yeah, I do. You know, and it's not, can we, God, can we win here? Can we do something great here? It's more just to have that peace, that steadfastness, and all the chaos.

That's really what it is.

It's sinking back into, like, Holy Spirit, you know, take over and lead me here in this moment

and allow me to think clearly, allow me to, you know, obviously go through my reeds

and, like I said, just have a even-killed state of mind

that I get from Holy Spirit.

That was Brock Purdy.

Now we're going to hear from the guy he hands the ball off to Christian McCaffrey, the MVP

candidate running back for the 49ers.

Our John Ackerman was with me covering the Super Bowl this week,

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