TUESDAY MORNING RB - Mahomes/Parsons injuries, 45 y/o Philip Rivers, Bears/Packers and Matt's fishing trip
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today on the "Tuesday Morning Running Back" edition of the podcast for December 16, 2025:
Chapters:
(01:27) - Matt's surprise 40th birthday trip
(07:03) - Patrick Mahomes/Micah Parsons injuries
(12:41) - Grieving injuries as an NFL player
(18:30) - 44 y/o Philip Rivers is back in the NFL!
(24:55) - Bears/Packers preview
(33:24) - Matt's Workhorse of the Week
(38:10) - What we learned at church
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:30.3 | What's up, y'all? |
| 0:31.2 | We're back here with Tuesday morning running back. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm your boy. |
| 0:34.2 | Your favorite running back's favorite running back. |
| 0:35.8 | Matt Forte. |
| 0:36.7 | I got my guy, Jay Nice, |
| 0:37.9 | Jason Romano with me. And we're excited to talk to you, man, huge weekend of football. Oh, I mean, just a huge weekend just every week, but just there's a lot that happened this week. I don't even know where to start. Well, I know where to start, Matt, you kick us off. Because I need to know how your 40th birthday went. |
| 0:55.4 | Because if you follow Matt Forte on Instagram and you heard Tuesday morning running back last week, you heard, you know, you were talking about turning 40 and reflections on turning 40. And then you actually did turn 40. And Danielle had your wife had a little surprise for you so tell us tell us about your trip yeah man |
| 1:13.2 | i have the best wife in the world i swear she uh it's hard to surprise me but she has done it twice |
| 1:20.3 | this year for my 40th obviously earlier in the year with the horse gumbo and then um we were in the airport leaving for our, you know, my birthday |
| 1:30.0 | trip, which he didn't tell me where we're going. All these people show up with fatheads |
| 1:35.5 | of my face in the airport. And if you know me, you know that's like not me. I'm like trying |
| 1:41.1 | to cover my face almost like, oh my gosh, this is too much attention. |
| 1:45.2 | But in the terminal at the gate, you know, all my, you know, closest friends and everybody, |
| 1:51.2 | they come up and they got one of the one of the portable JBL like box, music boxes, |
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