Danny Parkins talks NBA & Bears
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I could do Stephen A. 's job, guys. It's not that hard. Danny Parkins. QB1 party.
All are invited. Host of Fox Sports 1's First Things First. Coming in at number six, though, the team that should be the favorites in the NFC North, though the odds makers say they're the third best team, my Chicago Bears. Why can't the Chicago Bears be the best offense in football? The Bears, plenty of reason to doubt them.
What are Danny Parkins' thoughts on the Chicago Bears' potential?
Caleb Williams, no.
Former host of 670 The Score, before he abandoned us. That's a Caleb Williams custom, baby.
Jersey number one is going to the Raptors.
You guys made it seem like a Chicago Bears fan. We had our guy, Danny Parkins, all these guys. Danny Parkins on 104.3 The Score.
Why could the Chicago Bears be the best offense in football?
Wait just a minute. Did I see Danny Parkins on not just the expanded hour of First Things First? Why, yes, I did. He was talking to Tyler Reddick. He is hosting all three hours of First Things First this week from 2 to 5 on Fox Sports 1. He is at Danny Parkins on X. And he joins us on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago via our Circus Sports Illinois hotline. Download the Circus Sports app today. Yeah, Danny, I saw you talking to Tyler Reddick about the Daytona 500. NASCAR Danny was revving up.
Yeah, listen, you know, not even pretending to be a huge NASCAR guy, but I am a huge story guy. Tyler Reddick's story is incredible. You know, it's one thing, you know, listen, having Michael Jordan as your boss is one thing. Like, that's pretty cool. So we talked to him about that and what he talks to Mike about, and so that was cool for me for sure. But, yeah. He has two kids, and his eight-month-old was sick and had a tumor growing on his kidney that was leading to heart failure, and he had to have emergency surgery a couple of months ago. But they get the tumor out. They get the kidney out. The heart starts functioning normally. He starts developing normally. And in the lead up to the Daytona 500, he crawled for the first time.
So his kid was like crawling up and pulling himself up on the Daytona trophy. I thought it was a beautiful story, and it was a really cool moment. So, you know, am I a big auto sport guy? No. But I love good human interest stories, so it was great.
But that's how you get hooked. There are a ton of storylines. And the Michael Jordan connection to this is pretty significant because we were talking about it yesterday, Mark Grody, Danny, that that may have been the happiest MJ has looked since when exactly after that win at Daytona.
I thought it was pretty funny that he intentionally recreated the trophy-hugging photo. He said he felt like he had won a championship. I have a hard time believing that's 100% true, but he's obviously a crazy person. Whatever it is, when his fishing team does well, when he wins a couple of grand at the Grove,
off somebody like the guy the guy loves competition and so i guess the lebron jordan debate is now settled you know jordan jordan got a trophy in another sport so i guess i guess it's now over i mean that's a good point i i'm curious danny like do you cry when football season ends because i feel like that is your one true passion and i know we're talking good human interest stories and everything else but come on danny we know what you're here for you know you know why you're here
Yeah, well, I'm here to raise my kids and be a good husband. That too, that too. I love the NFL. I think it's the best product in sport by far. But we do a lot of NFL offseason stuff here at FS1. We get to take vacations in the offseason. I'm going to the Bahamas coming up in a few days. It's funny. I love the NFL, but our work schedule during the NFL is so insane that by the time the playoffs come around, I'm like, man, when does NFL end? And then we'll do combine and draft and free agency and all sorts of NFL things. It never really ends. But I'm a huge NBA guy, Marshall. I wrote a book on coaching and management structure in basketball. These playoffs should be amazing, especially the Western Conference.
So, you know, NBA, Tiger Woods teasing the Masters. I'm a huge golf fan.
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