Super Bowl Champion Jake Bequette
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Jake Bequette was a college football All-American at Arkansas. He went on to be drafted by the Patriots. How fitting for a man who would then enlist in the military and later run for office. This may be the first you've heard of Bequette, but it likely won't be the last.
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| 0:00.9 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tafoyk podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Jake Beckett is my guest. |
| 0:06.9 | When you see his name, you'd think it was Beckett, but it's pronounced Beckett. |
| 0:11.2 | I'll ask him why that is. |
| 0:13.4 | You may recognize him because he has a Super Bowl ring with the Patriots, even though he didn't play all that much. |
| 0:18.8 | But he was a defensive end. |
| 0:20.9 | He was also a United States Army infantry officer. |
| 0:24.1 | He served in Iraq. |
| 0:25.6 | He ran for office out of the state of Arkansas. |
| 0:28.6 | He is a very interesting young man. |
| 0:30.5 | He was a college football All-American. |
| 0:33.2 | And I think he's someone you're going to see a lot of in the future. |
| 0:36.3 | He's got some very interesting impressions of the world, having traveled it broadly, and very interesting perspectives on sports, the military, America, women's sports, Supreme Court. |
| 0:49.4 | It goes on and on. |
| 0:50.8 | He's an interesting guy. |
| 0:52.0 | Stay tuned for Jake Beckett. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome to the Michelle |
| 0:55.1 | Tofoya podcast. Jake, welcome. It's great to see you again. One of the things that I noticed |
| 1:04.5 | right away about your name. And people mispronounce it all the time. They want to say |
| 1:09.6 | Jake Beckett. But it's Beckett. |
| 1:13.1 | How did that happen? That's a great question. You can blame my ancestors who came over from France with that name. |
| 1:22.1 | I'm sure they had the opportunity to anglicize it, to change it from. So apparently Beckett is a pretty common name in France. |
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