Tampa Bay's Ndamukong Suh on the Super Bowl and business beyond football

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4.5 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tampa Bay defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh will be on the field this Sunday, trying to win his Buccaneers a championship. Off the field, Suh has been quietly building a business empire that has nothing to do with sacks or touchdown dances. Dan speaks to Suh about the trend of pro athletes forming non-sports careers well before retirement, his thoughts about the big game and his favorite NFL quarterback to hit.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dan Pramak and welcome to Axios Recap, sponsored by Amazon.
0:07.0	Today is Friday, February 5th. GameStop stock is back up, the unemployment rate is down,
0:13.0	and we're talking to someone you'll be watching on your TV this Sunday night.
0:20.0	As of taping, we are about 48 hours away from the Super Bowl, when either the Tampa Bay
0:25.3	Buccaneers or Kansas City Chiefs will get the trophy, the confetti, and the lifetime
0:30.6	adulation from their football hometown.
0:33.2	We wanted to do something a little bit different today.
0:36.0	Talk to one of the people who hopes
0:37.6	he'll be making news on the field, Tampa Bay defensive lineman, the Domeca Sue. Yeah, definitely
0:43.5	about his thoughts about the game. We will get into that. But we also want to speak to him
0:47.8	about how he's become part of this growing group of athletes who are building business
0:52.2	empires off the field. For example, Sue was listed as an
0:56.0	advisor on the SPAC that earlier this week agreed to pay $6.6 billion to purchase the parent
1:02.4	company of Golden Nugget Casino and restaurant chains like Del Friscoes and Bubba Gump Shrimp.
1:08.4	Sue's also somebody I first met in New York three years ago.
1:12.1	He was part of a group of NFL players who were together to meet with CEOs and startup
1:17.0	executives from all different sorts of industries to get a better understanding of what
1:21.9	they want to do off the field and after their careers.
1:25.8	Oh, and Sue is also a three-time all-pro, Heisman
1:28.7	trophy finalist, and one of the modern football era's most fearsome pass rushers. So we will
1:34.4	talk to Nadamika Sue in 15 seconds from the Tampa Bay Bucks meeting room. But first, this.
1:43.8	We're joined now by Nadomika Sue of the NFC champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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