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The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington

Best of The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington

Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

Football, News, Basketball, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Rob discuss Russell Wilson’s controversial claim that he opened up a lot of doors for Black quarterbacks in the NFL, tell us why federal investigators felt compelled to clear Shohei Ohtani of all wrongdoing involving an illegal sports gambling ring and explain why Adam Silver would be wise to banish Jontay Porter from the NBA if it's proven true that he bet on basketball games. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.2

Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast.

0:07.6

Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern, 4-7 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

0:16.6

Find your local station for the odd couple at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream stream us live every day on the IHeart radio app by searching FSR.

0:26.4

You're listening to the best of the odd couple with Chris Brousso and Rob Parker.

0:34.7

All right, Rob, so Russell Wilson, Rob G.

0:43.3

Russell Wilson was named like Sexiest man alive or something like that by Essex, Essence Magazine?

0:50.2

Close. He was named Essence Magazine's Sexiest Man of the Moment this week. Now, I don't know if that means. What is of the moment? I have no idea. Maybe sexist man alive is copyrighted or whatever.

0:52.0

But that's their version. Probably robbed you. Yeah. So he was their sexiest man of the moment. And they did a whole feature article about him. The photos are fantastic. If you haven't seen him yet, go check him out. Sexy? Sure. If that's the word you want to use. but in the article he focused a lot on his

0:53.1

points of his faith

0:54.5

and him out. Sexy? Sure, if that's the word you want to use.

1:15.7

But in the article, he focused a lot on his points of his faith in his household and his family and things like that.

1:17.5

And there was also a large portion of the feature that focused is on him being a black

1:24.4

NFL quarterback because, you know, for a long long time there weren't very many of them at all

1:27.9

and Russell Wilson himself was quoted as saying that he thinks that he feels that he blazed a new

1:35.5

trail for black athletes in the NFL here's his quote for me to be able to go back to back

1:41.5

Super Bowls and win one of them I think opened up a lot a lot of doors. Now you see guys like Mahomes who want it. It's really just us so far, but there's more coming. The emergence of quarterbacks. Who else? Wait a minute. He said, who else? There's only been three. Okay. I know, but he made it like, like it was a floodgate because he come on man like like like go ahead rob so he

2:02.8

he continues the emergence of quarterbacks like my home jaylon hurts lamar jackson c jroud to name a few

2:07.5

is indicative of a new era of football and a glimpse into what the sport is trending towards what

2:12.7

i love to see is guys getting drafted early and a lot of teams these days have black quarterbacks

2:17.2

playing for them.

2:18.0

It's all across the league, and it's showing how the NFL is starting to evolve, change, and

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