DMN Blog: Take the ES out of ESPN: Emmitt Smith out at the World Wide Leader

[Chocolate Lab]

The "Win a date with bbgun" charity auction netted slightly less than that.

So how much did WG end up paying?

 

[bbgun]

So how much did WG end up paying?

We worked out a deal: I bring the pizza if she brings the "sugar."

 

[mldardy]

Yes, he was. But he did improve during his time there.


Irvin was horrible at first too, and he also showed great improvement and eventually became my favorite analyst on the show.


So basically... they wait for a player to actually start learning how to do the job...


Then they fire him.


That's BSPN for you.

I thought he improved a lot this year too. He was still bad in spots but some of those MNF games he was making some very good points. It just wasn't enough.

 

[wxcpo]

Love ES, my all time favorite Cowboy, but one of the worst analyst of all time. The only one I have ever seen that was worse was Magic Johnson.

 

[lane]

emmitt was dreadful.

 

[bmf31]

It's for the best he was a diamond surrounded by trash!!!!

 

[jchap]

Emmitt's Greatest Hits

My favorite Emmitt quotes. I had trouble deciding which ones to put here. I love them all.

1. "Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... uhhh... blown... blown out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had... blown out. (Commentary: Don't believe he actually said this? I don't either. But check out Emmitt's Blunder as seen on Jimmy Kimmel Live.)
2. "Defensively, they're solid. They have solid defenses." (Commentary: From the redundancy department of the department of redundancy.)
3. "You hear Andy Reid going online and say, Donovan McNabb is my starting quarterback." (Commentary: It appears as though Emmitt is confused between "online" and "on the line." Does this mean Emmitt uses America On The Line Instant Messenger to chat with his friends?)
4. "Now the Colts are probably playing with more confidence than they ever have played since they been with the Indianapolis Colts." (Commentary: Right... That makes a lot of sense. As opposed to the Colts playing with more confidence than they ever have since being with the Jacksonville Jaguars.)
5. "They need to right the score to get revenge." (Commentary: Right the ship, right the score. Tomato, tomahto.)
6. "This will get you completely blowed out." (Commentary: Blowed? What will get you blowed? Turning it over a lot, or bringing flowers on a date?)
7. "They did a good job flying around the football field and carowzing the football carrier." (Commentary: Carowzing, eh? Guess Emmitt's old professors looked the other way when he used this word in his essays.)
8. "Brady will put up monster numbers because he can throw." (Commentary: Seriously, where else can you get this sort of analysis?)
9. "You cannot change the stripes of a leopard." (Commentary: Now, Emmitt, repeat after me. A cow says moooo...)
10. "The hill represent another rushing title this year for the season. For others watching this thing who've worked out on hills, this is a opportunity to build strength within." (Commentary: What... the... hell... is Emmitt talking about? First of all, again with the repetition. Rushing title this year for the season? And I love how Emmitt's appealing to the working-out-on-hills demographic because those people never get any love.)
11. "...Go to Arizona, sharp as a whistle, and do some finishing touches, so we can go down in the Super Bowl and play our best football of the whole entire season."(Commentary: Yeah, watch out for those sharp whistles - they can be really pointy.)
12. "The strength of the Patriots, their offense, got... DEBACLED." (Commentary: I was 99 percent sure Debacled wasn't a word, but I made sure in Microsoft Word. I typed it in, but instead of placing a red line below it, Microsoft Word just laughed at me.)
13. "That can be a swing their way eventually. I just hate to be the team that they winned it against." (Commentary: Let's see... butcher the English language, add an article where you don't need one and make up a word called "winned." Just another day in the life of Emmitt.)

http://BAN-INCOMING-IN-3-2-1/emmitt.php

 

[Beast_from_East]

He was truly horrible as an analyst, no surprise at all the got the axe.

 

[tyke1doe]

Only names? Try the English language.

:laugh1:

My only question: Who's going to provide the comic relief?

 

[tyke1doe]

"You cannot change the stripes of a leopard." (Commentary: Now, Emmitt, repeat after me. A cow says moooo...)

All ... Time ... Favorite.