- Content: Super Bowl Host James Brown’s Says ‘Faith is the Foundation’ to ‘Everything’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Emmy award winner James Brown is getting ready to host his eleventh Super Bowl.
“My whole focus has always been to do the best to make my colleagues look good. It’s a team-oriented sport,” Brown said of sportscasting on the Sports Spectrum Podcast. “I’ve always been focused on the whole body. I’m usually the host of a team doing this.”
Brown explained that the Super Bowl differs from a regular game because it has a much broader audience.
“The overwhelming majority of people who are tuned in are either in the category of casual fans or maybe sometimes kind of fans. So, we’re speaking to a much broader audience with a lot of the early offerings on that day,” he began.
“I want to understand the game exceedingly well. The people, the teams that are competing, what they do, the strengths and weaknesses. What my guys, my colleagues are studying so when they’re fully prepared,” he added.
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Throughout his successful broadcasting career, Brown recognizes that, ultimately, Christ is his “boss.”
“I don’t compartmentalize my faith, my faith is the foundation, it is essential to everything that I do,” he told Liberty University students. “I may be compelled or disciplined to have a list of things to do, but I always ask Him, ‘What are the priorities?’ At the end of the day, if I’ve accomplished everything (on my list) but I feel exhausted, and I don’t feel fulfilled in that I didn’t follow what His leading was, then it’s all about me. As opposed to reacting, I want to respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit in doing such.”
His faith impacts his work for the NFL as well.
“I know that my company did not hire me to proselytize,” Brown explained. “They hired me to do my job excellently. My faith is what they get because that is who I am. I try to model my faith, but I don’t walk around trying to beat people over the head with a Bible. If they ask me a question, they are going to get a biblical answer.”
“I don’t go around trying to beat people over the head with the Bible,” he told Sports Spectrum in 2017. “I try to model it in my lifestyle.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Brown:
The broadcaster joined the “Sports Spectrum” podcast, and host Jason Romano asked Brown if he ever struggled with his identity.
“You know what, Jason? It is probable that maybe in the early walk of my life I might have,” Brown replied. “But you know what? The overwhelming majority of people that God has called are working in secular society. And you’ve heard the expression that some in Christendom, that there are seven mountains of influences in society.”
“You and I happen to be on the mountain of media and arts, so I’m called to model Christ in what I do in society. I understand I am engaged in an environment, a culture that may not embrace Christ in culture, but that is who I am. No, I don’t struggle with it, but I try to model it,” he explained.
He continued, “People say, ‘There are often many who would rather see a good sermon before they hear a good sermon.’ So, that’s the good works. It is by faith that we are saved, but we’re saved unto good works. It is not faith or works. It is a faith that works. So I try to model that in what I do.”
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