ESPN First Take host and podcast host Stephen A. Smith knows exactly how to get under the skin of the Dallas Cowboys fanbase. It’s why he wants to eventually go deep in the heart of Texas one day and record an episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show among his most arduous haters.
In an interview with USA Today, Smith said doing his podcast on location at AT&T Stadium on Cowboys gameday was something he aspired to do.
“One of my dreams is to do a show from the parking lot of AT&T Stadium during a tailgate party, before the game,” Smith said.
Stephen A. is arguably the biggest troll of Cowboys fans. His bombastic gloating celebratory videos after every Dallas defeat are guaranteed to instantly go viral and draw vitriol from Cowboys supporters.
Smith said he gets after Dallas fans because they annoy him to no end.
“Their fans are the disgusting, nauseating fanbase that gets on my last damn nerves,” he said.
But despite those feelings, Smith made it clear in an episode of his show from October that he doesn’t mean anything personal by it.
“If you played like garbage, I got to say you played bad,” Smith said. “But there’s a glee and a joy from this that I take from the Dallas Cowboys stinking up the joint, because Dallas Cowboys fans get on my last damn nerves
“But I say that in all seriousness out of fun,” he added. “It’s oxymoronic to use those two words in the same sentence, but it is applicable. As serious as I am, I’m just having fun. It’s sports…It’s all in fun. That’s what fandom is all about.”
