Two-time Super Bowl champion Damien Woody on ESPN, faith and giving back
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Damien Woody is a two-time Super Bowl champion who played 12 seasons with the Patriots, Lions and Jets. He was selected 17th overall by the New England Patriots in the 1999 NFL Draft and played five seasons with the Pats, four with the Lions and three with the Jets. He announced his retirement from the NFL in July of 2011 and joined ESPN as an NFL analyst a few weeks later.
During his career, Woody played with and blocked for legendary quarterbacks Brett Favre and Tom Brady and was a member of two Super Bowl winning teams in 2001 and 2003 with the New England Patriots.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Damien about his NFL playing career, his transition to broadcasting, his journey of faith, why he has a heart to give back to children and how he became an NHL super-fan with the New York Islanders.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by Compassion International, and it's the new year. |
| 0:07.6 | It's 2022. Happy New Year, everyone. And what I'm thinking about the partnerships that we have here at Sports Spectrum, I am so grateful and thankful to have a partnership with Compassion International and thinking about the great |
| 0:23.4 | organization that they are, the great work that they do, releasing kids from poverty in Jesus' |
| 0:29.6 | name. I mean, teaching them God's word and helping them live a life that they might not |
| 0:34.6 | otherwise have lived. Man, what an honor and a privilege to not only |
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| 1:07.8 | letting them know how they're doing, letting us know what they're interested in. |
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| 1:54.3 | Yeah. This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 1:56.6 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 1:59.1 | And welcome, everyone, to the show. |
| 2:00.0 | I am Jason. |
| 2:03.0 | So glad you're tuning into our show today. |
| 2:06.6 | The Sports Spectrum podcast, the intersection of sports and faith. |
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