Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe don't want to hear “First Take” coming from the mouths of their two ESPN colleagues.
Smith and Sharpe both addressed comments made by Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler during their time College football game announced on Monday's edition of the popular sports talk show.
And when Smith was more specific about his response, Sharpe let it be known that he doesn't care how many ESPN executives he has to go through if he hears a shot at “First Take” again. .
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Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith appears on the podcast. (PBD podcast)
“I'm going to be a good team member,” Sharpe told Smith. “I'll let it slide. Everybody's on ESPN. Because if you hadn't taken the path you took, I would have lit their a-es. If we were going to be on the team one, if we are going to serve the same network, don't do that.
“Kirk, Chris Fowler, I promise you, if you talk about any of the platforms I'm talking about again, 'I wonder what they're going to say about being careless,' I'll tell you.” 'come on, ESPN doesn't have enough bosses. Leave me alone, don't play with me.
The comments from Herbstreit and Fowler were there Ohio State Buckeyes head football coach Ryan Day, where Smith accused them of misquoting him by calling for the coach to be fired.
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“Stop it,” Smith said into the camera during his speech on the matter. “'Take First has to fire him,' that's not true. I did! Not 'Take First.' It was me, Stephen A. Don't misquote. What I said was, 'This man Ryan Day, if he doesn't get a national championship, he needs to go.' I didn't stutter a bit, I don't stutter now.”
Herbstreit and Fowler were in the running for the Buckeyes of the Tennessee Volunteers to advance to the next round of the playoffs.
As Day led the team to a big win, Herbstreit expressed the “crazy excitement” he felt at Ohio State, which fired Day after losing for the fourth year in a row to Michigan in the playoffs. see the competition.
Kirk Herbstreit throws a football to fans at ESPN's College Game Day at the University of Texas, before the Longhorns' game against the Georgia Bulldogs in Austin, Oct. 19, 2024. (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman/USA TodayNetwork via Imagn Images)
Then, Herbstreit turned the conversation to “Take It First.”
“'First Take' tried to fire him,” Herbstreit was heard saying. “They thought he was done. So, I'll be interested to see what they say on Monday after this operation. They had him out. They're trying to find others. But here he is. He's still wearing his hat. He's training.”
At the time, Herbstreit's comments were interesting, to say the least, considering he was talking about a show within his network.
Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe chose their ESPN colleagues to comment on something they said about “First Take.” (IMAGN)
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But, as they have done in the past with other callers, Smith and Sharpe responded quickly, even if it meant putting their colleagues on alert.
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