nfl academy

Jo Maher (Pro Vice-chancellor for Sport), Lamonte Winston (Head of NFL Academy at Loughborough) and Steve Hagan (Head Coach at the NFL Academy at Loughborough) talk about the NFL Academy, Super Bowl and the future of American football in the UK.

Timestamps

00:00 - 02:24 - Introductions to guests, topic and backgrounds
02:25 - 09:25 - How did the partnership between Loughborough and the NFL Academy start?
09:26 - 12:21 - The transferable skills from other sports
12:22 - 24:33 - Where are we today with the standard of the NFL Academy?
24:34 - 28:59 - When will we see a Loughborough student at the Super Bowl?
29:00 - 41:19 - How is the partnership going and what can be achieved in the future? 41:20 - 42:27 - Final thoughts, thank you and goodbyes.

Welcome aboard to episode 12. So far, we've had guests on affiliated to different sports including basketball and football, but we haven’t had anybody that specialises in American Football, until now. Enter George Reynolds. Not only is he the quarterback for the NFL Academy in Great Britain, but he’s also had personal coaching from some big names including Andrew Luck, Quincy Avery and also the current starting QB for the Houston Texans, DeShaun Watson. You’re gonna hear about how he first got into the sport, what a standard day at the NFL Academy looks like, the experiences that he’s already had over in America, plus with the 2020 NFL regular season up and running, we take a look at what franchises and players we think are gonna light it up this year. America, watch out, you may be having a QB from the UK arriving onto the high school and college scene very soon...