Kurt Warner on Think Eternity with Matt Brown Podcast: ‘Underdog’ Story Shared by Most of Us
Former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner whose rise from an undrafted free agent to a two-time Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP, said his story, told in the biopic American Underdog resonates with many who see the film.
BY ALEX MURASHKO
MEDIA ON MISSION/THINK ETERNITY
“Although my story is well-documented as the ‘athlete who worked in a grocery store,’ I think so much of life for most of us, is about having our ‘supermarket moment,’ right? We have our moments where we find ourselves someplace we don’t want to be, where we never expected to be….[and] at a particular time that we’re chasing after whatever it is that we’re chasing,” Warner said during his interview podcast on Think Eternity with Matt Brown (below).
He said it was during the times of struggle that he grew as an individual and he grew in his faith.
“To this day, I’m still growing in my faith. I’m still evolving in my faith,” Warner said. “Those moments helped me to reflect on who God is in my life. You go through these rough moments and you start to realize it’s so much less about you, and it’s about Him and what He wants to do with your life.”
He said that the film, released in December 2021, captured not only the underdog story of his life but his wife, Brenda’s, and son’s story as well.
“The movie is called ‘American Underdog,’ but it maybe should have been plural, as in ‘American Underdogs,’ because it wasn’t just my underdog story that everybody kind of understands, but my wife had an underdog story with all the things that she had to overcome, such as being a single parent, being a single parent of a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those challenges,” Warner said. “Then, the underdog that is my son, Zach, who was a primary aspect of the movie as well, and how our three stories kind of were interwoven, and we learned and taught each other through different things that we went through.”
“By every right, he is a huge underdog, too, with everybody that overlooked him and told him what he couldn’t do and what he couldn’t accomplish. Watching him continually grow, evolve, and overcome has been incredible.”
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Alex Murashko is a Christ follower, husband, journalist and writing team leader for Think Eternity, a site for powerful faith content to help you live the fulfilled life in Jesus. Murashko is also founder of Media on Mission.
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