Speaker 1: All right, Jules, Let's get on to our first Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: guy who has plenty of Thanksgiving ties through the NFL.
Speaker 2: Let's get on to Emmitt Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm Att Smith, running back Dallas Cowboys from Pensacola, Florida.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the synopsis of I'm at Smith says.
Speaker 3: From the Great AI ladies and Ji.
Speaker 2: We need ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm at Smith standing at five foot nine inches and
Speaker 1: weighing two hundred and twenty one pounds. That's a big
Speaker 1: boy for five mins.
Speaker 3: Gee, oh Molly, what are you? You're five to ten?
Speaker 3: What playing weight? Man?
Speaker 2: I was big, though I was thick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was even thicker, two set thick.
Speaker 1: He played running back in the NFL, primarily for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and later for the Arizona Cardinals. Drafted seventeenth
Speaker 1: overall by the Cowboys in nineteen ninety from the University
Speaker 1: of Florida, Smith quickly established himself as a durable, high
Speaker 1: caliber player, known for his resilience and agility on the field.
Speaker 1: He retired as an NFL's all time leading rusher with
Speaker 1: eighteen three hundred and fifty five rushing yards, one hundred
Speaker 1: sixty four touchdowns, and earning three Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Rings, all with the Dallas.
Speaker 1: Cowboys, an MVP Award, and an induction into the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Was he first ballot? First ballot? Was he was? He
Speaker 3: first ballot? For sure? He was one hundred have been.
Speaker 3: And here's a quick fun fact.
Speaker 1: How am its pregame ritual included eating two packs of
Speaker 1: peanuts M and m's, making him one of the most
Speaker 1: efficient candy fueled athletes ever. Man, Now, that might be
Speaker 1: the most impressive thing about his career. And I wonder
Speaker 1: if he ate those peanut m and ms on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day after Thanksgiving dinner, or if he indulged into some
Speaker 1: like pumpkin pie instead, or some apple pie with some
Speaker 1: ice cream and whipped cream with a cherry on top.
Speaker 1: Or did he love those peanut m and ms that
Speaker 1: much that he wanted sacrifice even on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I think it was probably became a superstition thing early on.
Speaker 4: I mean running backs in their candy. You got Marshawn
Speaker 4: with Skittles, you got Emmitt Smith with Peter and M
Speaker 4: and ms. I mean, it is what it is. These
Speaker 4: guys are sometimes like most of the time, the running
Speaker 4: backs specimen that just needs fuel and they could eat
Speaker 4: anything they want because they running and getting blown up
Speaker 4: all day and they're touching the ball a lot. What's
Speaker 4: the first thing that comes to your mind when you
Speaker 4: think of Emmitt Smith, one of.
Speaker 1: The greatest running backs of all time, exemplified what being
Speaker 1: a star really meant, especially being on the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: like he was that star symbol when he was playing
Speaker 1: with Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is that is true.
Speaker 1: Jarry Jones did say that, but he really did exemplify
Speaker 1: it that much. He exemplified what being a running back
Speaker 1: truly meant. They truly ran the ball and ran it
Speaker 1: with you know, conviction, with resilience. And also he's like
Speaker 1: one of the first guys to truly start that era
Speaker 1: of everyone wanting to be a running back growing up.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, no one really wants to be running
Speaker 1: back anymore. It's it's twenty twenties and it's all about
Speaker 1: being a wide receiver, quarterback, tight end it. Back in
Speaker 1: the day when it was Amitt Smith, everyone wanted them
Speaker 1: want to be running back, everyone of myself, and I
Speaker 1: knew I wasn't a running back.
Speaker 4: I mean, Emma Smith is huge. When I think of
Speaker 4: Emmt Smith. I just think I think of the Cowboys,
Speaker 4: and I didn't like them. I didn't like them, but
Speaker 4: you were so damn good. I was a forty ninety
Speaker 4: nine Ers fan oka and this was prime in like
Speaker 4: when I was watching football in the nineties, and they
Speaker 4: were just so good. Him the triplets, Him, Aikman and
Speaker 4: Michael Irvin, and it just seemed like that often he
Speaker 4: would low you to sleep behind that offensive line. He'd
Speaker 4: get lost behind the line, and I just hated him
Speaker 4: because he'd always beat us in Candlestick.
Speaker 3: It didn't matter.
Speaker 4: Cowboys were always beating us except for ninety five peanut
Speaker 4: epin MS. Did you have any superstitions before games or
Speaker 4: what What was your pregame food.
Speaker 3: I had a pregame ritual.
Speaker 2: I can't remember you just eating hella pasta.
Speaker 1: I did eat helapasta, but there was also the peanut
Speaker 1: butter and jelly I made with my mom's jelly.
Speaker 3: That was always a routine.
Speaker 1: If I had to do every single Sunday to get
Speaker 1: me prepared and get me you know mentally right that
Speaker 1: I was on the right track and kept the tradition
Speaker 1: going of always having a pp and j with my
Speaker 1: mom's homemade jelly and then on top of it a
Speaker 1: chocolate milk. Man, I love chocolate milk to this day,
Speaker 1: and I just felt like, you know, getting that protein
Speaker 1: in my system and the carbs.
Speaker 3: What better way to make.
Speaker 1: The tradition sustainable with my mom's homemade jelly. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: the best jelly in the game.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that?
Speaker 4: Going around uncrustables in the NFL, there's like seven thousand.
Speaker 4: I heard PMT and the boys talking about it. It's
Speaker 4: crazy because peanut butter and jelly's always been like the
Speaker 4: athlete snack. Like you need a little quick calorie burned down.
Speaker 4: You need some calories, a cup of protein, some sugar,
Speaker 4: some bread, a little fuel. Right before you get a
Speaker 4: PB ANDJ throw a little honey on there for a
Speaker 4: little little NOAs a little extra sugar. That's what I
Speaker 4: would do as a kid. What jumps out when you
Speaker 4: watch Emmy Smith's tape.
Speaker 1: I mean he was a solid receiving back as well
Speaker 1: as being a great runner. I mean he has a
Speaker 1: strong upper body. You've seen defensive lineman bounce off of
Speaker 1: him like he can go into a hole and it
Speaker 1: looks like he's surrounded by five players, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he just has that killer stutter step with
Speaker 1: the backstep propeller, and then he's out of that freaking
Speaker 1: like pile of dudes and he's running to the outside now.
Speaker 1: And then he's kind of like a rabbit out there,
Speaker 1: like all these dogs are chasing this rabbit, and none
Speaker 1: of these dogs can get the rabbit. The rabbits just
Speaker 1: playing games like silly rabbit. He's just you know, eating
Speaker 1: the carrot while he's running around everybody. But that's what
Speaker 1: made him so special too, man, Like no one can
Speaker 1: get to him. And that that upper body strength, along
Speaker 1: with his ability and his footwork, just his versattility is
Speaker 1: what truly made him that special and so hard to
Speaker 1: take down.
Speaker 2: What do you say, who you who do you hate
Speaker 2: going against? What kind of defensive ends?
Speaker 3: Well, shorter Shorter.
Speaker 2: Stocking is Emm Smith.
Speaker 3: He's a bowling ball.
Speaker 2: He's just got built in pad level man.
Speaker 3: Yea, almost, that is what it is.
Speaker 4: You'd watch him get behind the offensive line. It seemed
Speaker 4: like their offensive line was fucking gigantic, and like he
Speaker 4: would sit there and be patient and then he'd have
Speaker 4: the quickness to jump, cut and then hit the fucking hole,
Speaker 4: make someone missing the second level. He always had long runs.
Speaker 4: And that's what like I always think of Emmitt Smith,
Speaker 4: just little little patiot runner, pay shiot runner, play behind
Speaker 4: his pads, low see the hole, hit it and go,
Speaker 4: and like man did he he did it better than
Speaker 4: a lot of people. He was the best running back
Speaker 4: when he retired. He had all the numbers.
Speaker 2: I remember that. What did you think about when he
Speaker 2: went to Arizona?
Speaker 3: You remember, I.
Speaker 1: Don't really remember too much when he went to Arizona
Speaker 1: because he exemplified being a cowboy, you know so much.
Speaker 1: He has insane records, that's for sure. He has the
Speaker 1: most career rushing yards with over eighteen thousand yards rushing.
Speaker 1: He has the most career rushing touchdowns at one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen. Was that beat now he did at that time?
Speaker 3: Is that beat touchdowns?
Speaker 1: The players that have more than one hundred six four
Speaker 1: career touchdowns but not not rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: And he has the most the most.
Speaker 1: Career rushing attempts as well, with over forty four hundred two.
Speaker 4: Man, that's what's almost even more impressive, because what's the
Speaker 4: what's the number right now that everyone talks about running
Speaker 4: back has about four hundred carries and then they get hurt.
Speaker 2: That's ten four hundred.
Speaker 3: Carries, thirty six fumbles on.
Speaker 4: On touching the ball forty four hundred times. That's insane.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: He didn't have like the wow speed, he didn't have
Speaker 4: the wow like stiff arm, but he was always just
Speaker 4: always productive.
Speaker 3: He had the wow lateral cuts he had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but when you think of lateral cuts in this generation,
Speaker 4: who do you think of one of the guys that
Speaker 4: we'll be talking about a little later.
Speaker 2: Oh whoa, we'll bleep that.
Speaker 3: We'll bleep that, well, bleep it.
Speaker 2: How about the Emmett Smith game, Oh man.
Speaker 1: When he you know, popped out his shoulder and his
Speaker 1: shoulder going while he went in the locker room for
Speaker 1: like what a minute or so, went to the sidelines
Speaker 1: wherever he went. He just came back out and play
Speaker 1: the rest of the game and had like what fifteen
Speaker 1: plus carries.
Speaker 4: Against the Giants. Do you ever remember playing someone banged
Speaker 4: up and having a ball out like that? Like I
Speaker 4: was banged up, you were banged up.
Speaker 1: I mean I never had it to the level of
Speaker 1: I'm at Smith where he could barely even move his
Speaker 1: shoulder and every time he found he was practically screaming
Speaker 1: on the ground, but he just kept going going and
Speaker 1: telling himself that he's not in pain.
Speaker 3: That's a football player right there. Man got shot up,
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think he definitely got light of kin right up
Speaker 2: in the shoulder. He put that needle right direct injected right.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but if you watch the game, you
Speaker 1: could tell man, he's in pain a little something.
Speaker 2: I've done it. I've shot up that shoulder a thousand times.
Speaker 3: But you can still feel it. But it just takes
Speaker 3: the edge off.
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of numb, but then like you'll
Speaker 2: feel cracky and stuff. You're like, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 1: I can recall, you know, the AFC Championship game. It
Speaker 1: was not like I'm at Smith's story, but I went
Speaker 1: up to see him. It was versus Baltimore Ravens. It
Speaker 1: was my second year in the league. I was having
Speaker 1: that wonderful year and I caught the ball on the
Speaker 1: Bernard Pollard. It was kind of a hip draft tackle,
Speaker 1: and I swear like ninety percent of the time on
Speaker 1: hip drop tackles, the player does get injured.
Speaker 3: That's getting tackled.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just not properly made to fall down
Speaker 1: that way with someone falling on top of you. If
Speaker 1: you're falling backwards and someone's on top of you, no problem.
Speaker 1: But your body is not made for someone to fall
Speaker 1: on top of you when you're landing on your stomach
Speaker 1: or on your chest. And that's what happened. Got tackled,
Speaker 1: he landed on my ankle. It twisted and I had
Speaker 1: a you know, super high ankle sprain, went in the
Speaker 1: locker room, got it taped up, and literally I had
Speaker 1: the same mindset, Hey, I'm not in pain. This is
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game. I may never be back. If
Speaker 1: we win this game, We're going to the fricking super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That's what you know, you're just dreamed of as a kid.
Speaker 1: So I had to go back, and I'm telling you
Speaker 1: that shit or I took it wasn't lyto kine.
Speaker 3: It was the tour it all shot, you know, right
Speaker 3: there on the spot.
Speaker 1: I don't think it really did much because you know,
Speaker 1: a high ankle sprain and you're in a lot of pain.
Speaker 3: I mean I went out there, I was limping a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: No more catches, BT, some serious blocks to get to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That Yeah, what was the craziest injury
Speaker 1: you ever played through in a game?
Speaker 2: That crazy snowstorm game first verse.
Speaker 3: Ten, when you guys want fifty nine to nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was still at the University of Arizona.
Speaker 2: I was in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: I got to play a bunch being a slapstick slaptick back.
Speaker 4: Then cut a ball and Vanderbosch fell on me and
Speaker 4: I broke my arm. I snapped my forearm and I
Speaker 4: look over to Ivan Fears the sideline.
Speaker 2: I go, Coach, I think I'm hurt. He goes, stay in.
Speaker 2: We ain't gotta know whatever was out.
Speaker 3: A football coach.
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, all right, And then freaking Hoyer
Speaker 4: threw me the ball Like the next drive, I caught
Speaker 4: a ball with a broken arm.
Speaker 2: It was fucking crazy. And I come off and I'm like, chatty,
Speaker 2: I think I broke my arm.
Speaker 4: Dude like he's like, oh well, I think everyone's kind
Speaker 4: out right now. I'm like, yeah, all right, whatever, let's
Speaker 4: do it. And so play with the broken arm.
Speaker 1: That suck, bro I mean, it's bad, and then it's
Speaker 1: bad asked to play through an injury, but it does suck.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: I heard it suck heard like that mother effort. It's
Speaker 4: part of the game. The guys, the greatest players like EMMITTT.
Speaker 4: Smith for this situation, when they're banged up, they find
Speaker 4: a way to be productive and they adjust their game
Speaker 4: to the deficiencies with their injury, and they still go
Speaker 4: out and ball. That's what makes a great player. Well,
Speaker 4: Emmy Smith was a fucking guy that did that with
Speaker 4: the shoulder game.
Speaker 1: What about his most all time rushing yards on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day as well, with over eleven hundred.
Speaker 2: Yards I mean Turkey Day.
Speaker 1: He owned the most rushing tds on Thanksgiving thirteen Jesus.
Speaker 1: His best Thanksgiving was about twenty nine carries, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five yards and three touchdowns in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: He's a three time Super Bowl champion with the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and he helps secure back to back Super Bowls and
Speaker 1: they were both blowout wins versus my hometown, the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: People still talk about those losses. How the Bills went
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I think four years in a row.
Speaker 1: Was it three or four years or I was only
Speaker 1: one years old, two years old, three years old, four
Speaker 1: years old. But it still hurts the city of Buffalo
Speaker 1: that Emmett Smith put that big of a pounding on them,
Speaker 1: And a huge shout out to Jimmy Johnson, Michael Irving
Speaker 1: on the team. I mean, what a solid team they had,
Speaker 1: man and Troy Aikman was he the quarterback? That's the
Speaker 1: team right there, the triplets.
Speaker 4: Now what do you think of the Lions and the
Speaker 4: Cowboys always playing on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: I mean, I love how those teams are the tradition.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the Cowboys, they are America's team. They
Speaker 1: draw the most represents the Thanksgiving. You need the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys on TV. The Detroit Lions, they became so bad
Speaker 1: at one point that it really.
Speaker 2: Was like their super Bowl. Yeah, yeah, it was their
Speaker 2: super Bowl because that was like their only primetime game
Speaker 2: for a long time.
Speaker 1: At one time, they were like, oh fifteen, only sixteen
Speaker 1: the league. They were winning two three games. At the time,
Speaker 1: it rarely wasn't important that Detroit was playing on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: It might have been important for the city, but it
Speaker 1: was important to of America that the Dallas Cowboys were
Speaker 1: playing on Thanksgiving. But now it's just as important when
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Everyone loves Detroit, right, now they're kind
Speaker 1: of becoming like America's up and coming team, America up
Speaker 1: and of of the middle upper.
Speaker 2: Midwest they call Midwest. They call it the Midwest, you
Speaker 2: know upper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've always bordering the Canada actually always Canada's team.
Speaker 4: Actually, well technically Detroit is the only city where Canada
Speaker 4: is south of it. Emmy Smith always He's also known
Speaker 4: for his his game day fits.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, pullovers, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's that's what he's endorsed by now pullover diapers.
Speaker 1: Depends, right, yeah, because he's always dependable in Dallas.
Speaker 3: He's always dependable.
Speaker 1: Now he's representing depends adult diapers because you can depend
Speaker 1: on EMMITTT.
Speaker 3: Smith. That take a dump.
Speaker 1: On the other opposing team defense, Yes, on the defense.
Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: He did that whole polka doont like overall outfit back
Speaker 4: in the day when guys would always wear a suit
Speaker 4: and tie. Like to think about it now, like that's
Speaker 4: how everyone dresses now, everyone dresses like it's a fucking
Speaker 4: runway before the game to get your shot, to show
Speaker 4: that you're cool, your.
Speaker 2: Style this, you're that. And Emma Smith was like a
Speaker 2: pioneer in that. Look at that fucking outfit. That's kind
Speaker 2: of fire. Would you wear that, Rob if it was Halloween?
Speaker 2: What was your game day? What was your game day outfit?
Speaker 3: My game day outfit? Man?
Speaker 1: You know me, I was a shortened T shirt guy.
Speaker 1: Every single week that was all free T shirt, free shorts,
Speaker 1: free sandals. I was showing up every game like.
Speaker 4: That guy wore Jordan sandals nine years that I've known him,
Speaker 4: the same pair in the locker room. That's what he
Speaker 4: roll up in, just like this. He look exactly how
Speaker 4: he was dressed right now, just like this, because this
Speaker 4: is all free stuff.
Speaker 2: And he'd roll up in the game. He roll up
Speaker 2: in the game that you'd see him.
Speaker 4: You see him in the cafeteria, grab some food, grab
Speaker 4: a couple of PV and jays, and I'm good.
Speaker 3: And then he's good, just thankful for it. Just the basics, Jules.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've I think I've come across Emmett
Speaker 4: at a like a banquet or a function or a
Speaker 4: charity event or some event. Emmy Smith just looks like
Speaker 4: happy and cool and rich anytime I see him. He's
Speaker 4: got a great smile, he has an age. He looks
Speaker 4: exactly the same as he did in high school. I
Speaker 4: don't think he's got the hair anymore, but salt and
Speaker 4: pepper beer. I mean, I guy could cut a rug too.
Speaker 4: Emmitt Smith actually won Dancing with the Stars. Does Dola
Speaker 4: win Dancing with Stars? Like Emma Smith?
Speaker 2: Right now, this is after Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3: Did Danny win? Wait, this is after we don't know
Speaker 3: if Danny went, but.
Speaker 4: Right now we can imaginary think that like if he
Speaker 4: if he wins, and you say he won right now,
Speaker 4: then we'll look like genius, says But if we say
Speaker 4: he didn't he won and he didn't win, then we'll
Speaker 4: look like morons.
Speaker 3: I think Danny is gonna win Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: You think, no, he won?
Speaker 3: Da Dan, Danny won Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: Fucking let's go Dola shout out time. What kind of
Speaker 2: dude is Emmitt Smith?
Speaker 4: I would say on three one two three, DoD.
Speaker 3: I mean he was relentless man.
Speaker 1: I mean like dogs, dogs get hurt and they don't
Speaker 1: care one bit, They just keep on going.
Speaker 3: I mimm Smith just kept going.
Speaker 2: He's a crazy stud.
Speaker 4: Because you think about it, when you think of that generation,
Speaker 4: like when I think a dog, I think of someone
Speaker 4: who like he won every year.
Speaker 2: He didn't have to have to be a dog like
Speaker 2: he was the pedigree. Everyone knew.
Speaker 4: He was the guy, one of the faces of the
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys, which was America's team. He had the pedigree.
Speaker 4: He went on Dancing with the Stars. He won Dancing
Speaker 4: with the Stars. You're telling me, dogs go out there
Speaker 4: and win some Dancing with the stars.
Speaker 1: No, dogs don't go out and went Dancing with the stars.
Speaker 1: Studs do dogs go out there and Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars and lose the first round because they're just so
Speaker 1: happy to be there and they're just roughing around and
Speaker 1: they can't figure out what to do because they do
Speaker 1: they do it at one hundred miles per hour and
Speaker 1: going out there and just being so careless and running
Speaker 1: over everything in sight.
Speaker 2: Motivated to win, but yeah, how to do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So then I just talked to you. I talked to
Speaker 2: you and talked me into it. You all sees a
Speaker 2: stud stud stamp it
Speaker 1: M