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We haven't said much about ESPN's Emmitt Smith over the past few days. (Actually, we have. But most of it was in the latest Monday night Live Blog.)
A few of his comments bear repeating here.
Even before the game or the five-hour on-air run-up to it began on Monday, Emmitt was doling out wisdom on ESPN Radio, including this free advice to the Cowboys: "If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record."
Then, during the hour-long SportsCenter that spills into Monday Night Countdown, Emmitt addressed whether the Cowboys are on the same level as the Pats and the Colts with this inherently contradictory gobbledygook: "The Dallas Cowboys are not far behind, they are a distant third, they're close but they're not quite there yet."
After the game, Stu Scott asked Emmitt and Steve Young to describe -- in two words -- what they believed would have happened if they had been told before the game that the Cowboys would commit six turnovers and force only one. Emmitt said, "Cowboys lose big time."
And Emmitt also mangled one of the all-time great sports quotes by tritely comparing Jim Valvano's courageous battle with cancer to the ability of the Cowboys to come from behind to beat the Bills.
As anyone who ever saw Valvano's riveting, heart-warming, and heart-breaking speech at the 1993 ESPY awards knows, from instant recall memory and without having to pull up the video on YouTube, Valvano's key line, delivered with a resolute yet slightly breaking voice, was: "Don't give up. Don't ever give up."
So Emmitt completed his latest bad night by desecrating one of the phrases by which Valvano should always be remembered when Emmitt said, "Never quit. Don't quit."
Emmitt -- we urge you to deviate, right now, from your version of Valvano's motto.
We haven't said much about ESPN's Emmitt Smith over the past few days. (Actually, we have. But most of it was in the latest Monday night Live Blog.)
A few of his comments bear repeating here.
Even before the game or the five-hour on-air run-up to it began on Monday, Emmitt was doling out wisdom on ESPN Radio, including this free advice to the Cowboys: "If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record."
Then, during the hour-long SportsCenter that spills into Monday Night Countdown, Emmitt addressed whether the Cowboys are on the same level as the Pats and the Colts with this inherently contradictory gobbledygook: "The Dallas Cowboys are not far behind, they are a distant third, they're close but they're not quite there yet."
After the game, Stu Scott asked Emmitt and Steve Young to describe -- in two words -- what they believed would have happened if they had been told before the game that the Cowboys would commit six turnovers and force only one. Emmitt said, "Cowboys lose big time."
And Emmitt also mangled one of the all-time great sports quotes by tritely comparing Jim Valvano's courageous battle with cancer to the ability of the Cowboys to come from behind to beat the Bills.
As anyone who ever saw Valvano's riveting, heart-warming, and heart-breaking speech at the 1993 ESPY awards knows, from instant recall memory and without having to pull up the video on YouTube, Valvano's key line, delivered with a resolute yet slightly breaking voice, was: "Don't give up. Don't ever give up."
So Emmitt completed his latest bad night by desecrating one of the phrases by which Valvano should always be remembered when Emmitt said, "Never quit. Don't quit."
Emmitt -- we urge you to deviate, right now, from your version of Valvano's motto.
