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#382 NFL Star Exposes The “Godfather” Culture of Early CrossFit | John Welbourn

When a guy like Dave Tate calls, you don’t show up with half a story. You show up with the whole damn playbook and a few pages Dave didn’t even know existed.

John just dropped into Dave Tate’s Table Talk, and the episode is everything you’d expect when two decades of NFL grit sits across from the godfather of under-the-bar truth-telling.

They get into the early CrossFit underground, the “Godfather culture,” the good, the bad, and the part nobody else had the stones to talk about. They hit athlete development, real strength, real coaching, and what actually happens when you spend your life chasing speed and power instead of trends and shortcuts.

If you want the real lineage of CrossFit Football, the origin story of Power Athlete, and a peek behind the curtain of John’s time in the league, this one’s mandatory listening.