AllAZ video call features Arizona sports coaches, players, celebrities
May 13, 2020, 3:56 PM
The most ambitious crossover event in sports history:
The #AllAZ Celebrity Zoom Party. pic.twitter.com/zO12rHNO7z
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) May 13, 2020
An AllAZ Zoom video conference call released on Wednesday grew and grew as it went on, with the guest list getting more eclectic as it went along.
The call started out featuring Fox Sports Arizona television host Jody Jackson with Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury, D-backs manager Torey Lovullo, Suns head coach Monty Williams and Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet. But each of those participants reached out to others to join the call, and that they did.
Former Coyotes captain Shane Doan and current Sun Mikal Bridges were the first to hop on after it started. Bridges pointed out his coach’s huge beard, something he didn’t sport back before the pandemic began.
Other athletes, like D-backs David Peralta and Archie Bradley, eventually came on. Mercury head coach Sandy Brondello joined the coaches that stopped in.
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But the guest list expanded outside of just athletes, as MLB Network host Chris Rose eventually came along, as did comedian Larry the Cable Guy. Even Twitter star Rex Chapman — who also played for the Suns — made it on the chat.
Bradley, who was formerly recruited to the University of Oklahoma as a quarterback, happened to be in the same virtual space as Kingsbury, the former Texas Tech head coach.
“I tried [to recruit him],” Kingsbury said. “He didn’t want to play for me. But he can sling it. He can really throw it. I think he made the right decision though. I don’t think he’d like to get hit that much.”
