Ep 175 - Never Quit Mentality with Nate Boyer
What's Next with Eric Wood
Eric Wood
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Nate Boyer is what many would deem a renaissance man. The Army Green Beret is also a philanthropist, humanitarian, and former football player for the Texas Longhorns (despite never playing a down of organized football prior to the Special Forces), and later for the Seattle Seahawks becoming the oldest rookie in NFL history at age 34.
Boyer and Fox Sports NFL Insider Jay Glazer co-founded the nonprofit organization Merging Vets & Players (MVP), with the aim of bringing together combat veterans and former professional athletes as each tries to redefine their sense of purpose after their respective uniforms come off.
Today on the show, Eric and Nate discuss trying new things, Nate's never quit mentality and his incredible journey in the football world. Other topics include:
(7:30-14:10) - Nate's career path from actor to Green Beret.
(14:10-25:20) - Special forces training. Never Quit.
(25:20-36:45) - Nat's decision to play football late in life. Becoming the long snapper at Texas.
(36:45-49:45) - Starting MVP, similarities between Vets and former NFL players.
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| 0:00.0 | Went back overseas, went to Afghanistan that summer, brought a couple footballs with me. |
| 0:08.0 | Any downtime I had just like in the prior deployment to Iraq, I was training, you know, and I |
| 0:13.2 | was long snapping, like at least 30 minutes a day, if not more. |
| 0:17.1 | Started to get the spiral down, started to get the accuracy down, trying to work on my velocity. |
| 0:22.6 | That was the biggest issue. |
| 0:24.6 | Came back, you know, went to, in preseason training camp, and I won the backup job. |
| 0:31.7 | So first game of the year, I'm the backup. |
| 0:33.6 | And they had recruited a kid to come in and do it, you know, and he was a freshman. |
| 0:37.3 | And there's 101,000 people. |
| 0:39.3 | He's like more than that now, but at the time there was 1001,000 people in Texas Memorial Stadium. |
| 0:46.3 | It's nerve-wracking. |
| 0:48.3 | And he didn't have a great first game. |
| 0:50.3 | And so I got an opportunity the next week and started for 38 straight games after that |
| 0:55.6 | until I graduated. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in |
| 1:06.1 | life your best yet. Our next guest is Nate Boyer. And Nate is an absolute Renaissance man. The former |
| 1:13.0 | active duty Green Beret is also a world traveler, a philanthropist and community leader, and a |
| 1:18.1 | professional athlete is a member of the Seattle Seahawks. Nate is the co-founder of the |
| 1:22.6 | organization merging vets and players, which has helped countless individuals transition out |
| 1:27.4 | of professional |
| 1:27.8 | sports and the military. He's also the director of the new movie MVP, which is available in |
| 1:33.9 | all 30 NFL markets and will be on streaming services. This is an episode of the podcast you |
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