I can't remember any other football commentator facing the kind of criticism that ESPN's Emmitt Smith has gotten this year. Smith is one of the league's all-time great running backs, but his malapropisms and non sequiturs make it hard to remember that he must actually know a lot about football.But it's now gotten so bad for Smith that even people in other sports are taking shots at him. A Charlotte Observer profile of UNC-Charlotte point guard DiJuan Harris concludes with this:
What he would like to do after college: "I think I would like to be an ESPN analyst because I could do just as good a job as Emmitt Smith does when he's commentating. Half the stuff he says is incorrect, so I think I can do that."Ouch. Kind of a low blow from Harris there, but not totally unwarranted.
Hat tip: Pro Football Talk.




