Emmitt on Cowherd... it's ugly!

[speedkilz88]

He probably heard the Peter King article claiming Roy never lifted weights before and tied that in with the reports about needing to lose weight from last season and the route running stuff from last year.

 

[jazzcat22]

I love him, but he really needs to stay away from interviews and TV in the future!

Same here, he was my favorite player. But far from my favorite TV sports personality [well, I don't have any favorite] But he needs to be banned. Or change his stripes, or is that spots.....

 

[MetallicBlue]

7-9 to 9-7 is about right for this bunch. Wade is still Wade and we didn't help ourselves at all in the draft.

 

[Big Dakota]

Am I the lone Cowboy fan who doesn't like what I see of Emmitt Smith as a person? If anything, the guy's somehow underrated as a player, but every time I hear him talk he comes off sounding petty and opinionated. Not a good combination. I never liked the stories about how he handled autographs. I also have a hard time forgiving him for Dancing with the Stars.

It's got nothing to do with his opinions on this particular team, because I'm not aware of him being particularly critical. He just comes off as one of the guys from the 90s teams I'd least like to have a beer with.

I know a guy who's a police detective and he's an only child of a pretty wealthy old farming couple. Dude has cash and he's into autograph shows. He goes about once a months and flys all around the country going to shows. He's as big a Cowboys fan as anyone here and he's met Emmitt on several occasions at these shows and he always says what a jerk he seems to be. He's met dozens of Cowboys players through these shows he attends but swears Emmitt is the worste at being polite. Maybe he detests autograph hounds, don't know.

 

[superpunk]

my gosh, now we are trashing one of our greatest Cowboys of all-time because he has an interview after a 9-7 season where he says he thinks we'll win 7 games? sometimes you guys are ridiculous.. you do realize that Emmitt was the biggest reason we won 3 Super Bowls in the 90's, don't you? and the man bleeds silver and blue, if anything he has always been accused of being too biased when it comes to talking about the Cowboys.. he literally cheered for them when he was working for ESPN and always said, 'we' and 'us' when referring to the Cowboys.. sure guys, go ahead and defend a WR that's scored a grand total of 1 touchdown for us in favor of a man that gave it all he had for us so we could become 3 time world champions..

oh, and by the way, i have an incredible Emmitt signed birthday picture.. he was nothing but pure class to me, and actually went out of his way to do something amazingly nice for me.. reading Pearlman's book is like reading the National Enquirer.. but some of you guys probably do think that some mom in Utah gave birth to an alien's twin babies too..

Gotta separate Emmitt the Cowboys legend from Emmitt the Broadcaster.

 

[PoetTree]

Is it as ugly as his inability to express himself properly? I love emmitt for obvious reasons, but he has easily become one of my least favorite 90s cowboys. I think it all started with the "diamonds among trash" comment.

Ya know, I think Emmitt expresses himself just fine... when he's allowed to speak how he naturally speaks. It was ESPN forcing him to speak anglo-saxon that caused his troubles in communication. If they simply would have allowed him to talk ebonically, with his natural colloquialisms, I don't think he would have been seen as the stumbling orator that he's known as now.

I've listened to Emmitt speak on various subjects over the years, sometimes at length, and I never had a hard time understanding a single thing he said. He expresses himself just fine. He just doesn't express himself the way the corporate media (ESPN, in this case) requires when pandering to white America. And I'm white myself, so this is definitely not a racial issue for me.

Ebonics IS a recognized language of its own these days, so why a black man can't be accepted on national television speaking like that is a mystery to me. But listen to him talk when he wasn't trying to "force" the King's English out of his mouth, and he talks just fine. It was trying to make Emmitt act like someone he isn't that caused his elocution problems.

And as for the Diamond surrounded by trash comment, I'm willing to give him a pass for it. That was a very hard time for Emmitt, and while not an honorable statement, I can empathize. I wished better for him myself. Here he is, possibly the greatest player at his position in NFL history, breaking one of the most hallowed records in NFL annals, and he's playing on probably the worst team he's ever played on... who couldn't even manage to ride the passion & pride he broke the record with that day and deliver him a win to savor it with--which I guarantee put a damper on that day for him, a man for whom winning and elevating his team has always been of the utmost importance. And then he's released from the only team he knows & loves. Bummer.

It's true that those thoughts would have been better left on the inside. But quite frankly, he was right. He WAS a diamond surrounded mostly by trash that year, in terms of the caliber of player he was surrounded by. Yeah, he shouldn't have said it. But it doesn't take a lot of insight to understand his frustration, or indeed, to find compassion for it. At least not for me.


Emmitt is my favorite player and my favorite Cowboy in NFL history. And he's human.

Seems like if we'd accept his humanity, it'd be easier to accept his heroism, too.



:starspin

 

[Alexander]

Gotta separate Emmitt the Cowboys legend from Emmitt the Broadcaster.

It is impossible not to. Listening to him speak is utterly brutal and it really makes me sad.

I never noticed it when he was a player, but it was shocking when he became a studio personality. It doesn't change my opinion of him as a player in the least. Still GOAT. Now as a broadcaster/personality, WOAT.

 

[Big Dakota]

This should be good

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Utah twin alien babies >>> Emmitt Smiff

 

[BHendri5]

Emmitt, is the still one of my favorite Cowboys, Irvin is number one, then Emmitt, now Romo, Barber, Choice, Jones, Ware, T.O.

I do not care what Emmitt says about the Boys, that is his opinion, it is no different than many others, besides we have not done anything to prove anyone is wrong, so until we do, their opinion is valid in their eyes.

As far as stretching the field, all we need is chain movers, and we have those.

 

[lqmac1]

Its obvious Emmitt is trying to get these guys amped up.

I hope your right... I really do. But to me it seems since he's started his horrific anaylsis career he's been bashing the cowboys at every chance, he's a legend an all but as years keep counting the more I dislike the guy... I mean after all we did CUT his ***...

 

[lcharles]

Well, that does it. I'm changing my prediction back to 7-9


:flipflop:

 

[RS12]

Why is it that if someone in the media doesn't think the Cowboys are going to the Superbowl, THEY have a problem and must be sucking up to make money.

We all want the Cowboys to do well this year, but the fact is we don't know if they will be better or worse than last year. We didn't see anything in the preseason that we haven't seen in previous years (except long kickoffs).

How about we let the season play out and let people have their opinions until the Cowboys prove them wrong on the field.

Could not have said it better. Seems the pom pom squad is at full strength this AM.

 

[big dog cowboy]

-Will win seven games....maybe

Put him in a debate wiht Michael Irvin. That would be interesting to watch.

 

[Jon88]

When he learns to speak right I'll take him seriously.

 

[Rampage]

Boy people getting bent out of shape over Emmitt's comments. I don't remember people getting this mad when Deion or Troy made their predictions about this year's team. Deion pretty much said the same thing Emmitt did a few months ago and Troy has never really endorsed this team but Emmitt gets all of the hate I guess.

well since other past greats are not very high on this team either that leads me to believe 2 things and maybe 3.

#1 they think this team is gonna fold or quit again like last year.

#2 they are trying to motivate this underachieving team

#3 maybe both.

fact is Emmitt's pinkie toe has accomplished and done more for this franchise than the whole current team has done in over a decade. but this season i'm not caring about what people are predicting us to be like. i'm just gonna sit back and watch it all play out.

 

[mldardy]

well since other past greats are not very high on this team either that leads me to believe 2 things and maybe 3.

#1 they think this team is gonna fold or quit again like last year.

#2 they are trying to motivate this underachieving team

#3 maybe both.

fact is Emmitt's pinkie toe has accomplished and done more for this franchise than the whole current team has done in over a decade. but this season i'm not caring about what people are predicting us to be like. i'm just gonna sit back and watch it all play out.

Me Too. I would almost rather it be this way than be the Giants where everyone thinks it is a given that they will win the division. I kind of like the underdog status the Cowboys have.

 

[vta]

Ya know, I think Emmitt expresses himself just fine... when he's allowed to speak how he naturally speaks. It was ESPN forcing him to speak anglo-saxon that caused his troubles in communication. If they simply would have allowed him to talk ebonically, with his natural colloquialisms, I don't think he would have been seen as the stumbling orator that he's known as now.

I've listened to Emmitt speak on various subjects over the years, sometimes at length, and I never had a hard time understanding a single thing he said. He expresses himself just fine. He just doesn't express himself the way the corporate media (ESPN, in this case) requires when pandering to white America. And I'm white myself, so this is definitely not a racial issue for me.

Anglo-Saxon? ESPN tries to make it's commentators speak Anglo-Saxon??

 

[alancdc]

Put him in a debate wiht Michael Irvin. That would be interesting to watch.

Irvin in a 1st round knockout.

 

[Alexander]

Ebonics IS a recognized language of its own these days, so why a black man can't be accepted on national television speaking like that is a mystery to me. But listen to him talk when he wasn't trying to "force" the King's English out of his mouth, and he talks just fine. It was trying to make Emmitt act like someone he isn't that caused his elocution problems.

When it is taught in an educational setting, it is a recognized language. Until then, it is what amounts to slang. He doesn't have to "force" himself to use "The King's English". It is not elocution. It is the fact he doesn't know how to properly use half the words he uses. Case in point, "debacle".