This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys on tap today.

Over the next month or so, next six weeks or so, we're going to be doing a series of shows. We're going to buy or sell NFL off seasons. Just a little pull behind the curtain here. We're originally going to do just a small set of teams and then figured, well, why wouldn't we just do all the teams? So what we're going to do is

we're going to split this into four shows because eight teams a show felt right. And we're

going to divide it by pecking order within the NFL. So we're going to have the teams in transition,

rebuilding teams, the teams in the middle class, the contenders. But today we're going to start with the playoff hopefuls in the NFL, some teams that made

the playoffs last year, some teams that are projected to make the playoffs this year.

And to help us do that, we're going to welcome my friend from 670 the score here in Chicago,

Danny Parkins.

Danny, how you doing, man?

Robert, an honor. I like this role reversal. You've been on the show a few times, so it's a, what took you so long to return the favor? Not true. Not true. I don't think I have. I've been on with, this is going to be very not interesting for people who are familiar with Chicago local radio, but I've been on with Dan and Laylo a bunch of times on 670,

but I don't know if I've ever been on your show before. I know you've been on my show before,

and that's how memorable it was that you are denying that it's happened. Yes, you do go on

with our midday show more than you come on with us,

but I will just say first time, long time for me with the athletic football show as a listener,

but congratulations to Nate. You guys built something absolutely amazing. And it's an honor to be

here. And I will send you the link to your appearance from the Parkinson's Spiegel show. I promise you. Now I feel like an asshole that I don't remember. But I don't. It's been a while. That's what I'll say. If I have been on, it has been a while. Yeah, last season. Okay. All right. What, uh, no, I feel even worse. worse. Are you from Chicago originally?

I don't think we've ever talked about this.

Where are you actually from?

Yeah, so born in the city, raised on the North Shore, so grew up in Glencoe, went to

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