Thomas Davis, Los Angeles Chargers Linebacker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On this throwback edition of the podcast, we look back to April 2018, Episode 103 and our conversation with NFL linebacker Thomas Davis.
Thomas is a three-time Pro Bowl linebacker with the Carolina Panthers. He was the 2014 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, and played in Super Bowl 50 with Carolina.
Selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by Carolina, Davis played the first 14 seasons of his career with the Carolina Panthers. In March of 2019, he signed a deal to play with the Los Angeles Chargers.
On this podcast, we hear from Thomas about growing up in small-town Georgia and why not having a dad in his life as a kid has formed how he parents and loves his own children.
You can listen to the entire interview with Thomas from Episode 103 here or by searching his name on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or anywhere else podcasts are found.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of the |
| 0:22.4 | Sports Spectrum podcast. I am Jason Romano. Thanks for joining us here on the show today. We're |
| 0:27.5 | going to look back to April 26, 2018 today on the show, as we remember a conversation that we had |
| 0:36.1 | with Thomas Davis, the then Carolina Panthers |
| 0:39.9 | linebacker, who's now with the Los Angeles Chargers, and it was episode number 103 of the |
| 0:47.8 | podcast. It's interesting because at the time we talked to Thomas, it was in the the spring late winter and spring of 2018 and |
| 0:56.7 | Thomas of course a three-time Pro Bowl linebacker 2014 Walter Peyton man of the year he played |
| 1:03.5 | in Super Bowl 50 with Carolina but Thomas at this time had announced that he was going to be retiring at the end of the 2018 season. |
| 1:14.1 | And if you know his story, he decided he wanted to come back and play one more year. |
| 1:19.4 | And so he signed with the Los Angeles Chargers. |
| 1:22.3 | And that's where he is getting ready to play in 2019. |
| 1:26.2 | But this podcast was a lot of fun because we got to sit down in person, Thomas and I, |
| 1:31.3 | to talk about his journey. |
| 1:34.0 | And this snippet of the podcast that we're playing for you right now is towards the beginning |
| 1:38.6 | of the interview when he takes us back to what it was like growing up in this small town |
| 1:44.1 | in Georgia and just the stack, |
| 1:48.8 | the deck stacked against him to succeed to find a way out and certainly to not make it to the |
| 1:56.1 | NFL. |
| 1:56.7 | Like that was not even thought of, I don't think, when he was a little kid. |
| 2:00.5 | And Thomas made it. |
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