Earlier this week, the Falcons shipped ESPN personality and beloved sports yeller Stephen A. Smith a jersey, part of a rollout that saw the team share their new apparel with a variety of celebrities. That rollout earned more than a little grumbling from fans who have been waiting for their jerseys for a long time and many continue to do so for weeks or even months.
The gesture also did not save them from Smith’s wrath on Monday, when he eviscerated the Falcons for their 40-39 loss to the Cowboys yesterday. In the screed our Evan Birchfield shared below, he calls the Falcons “the dumbest team I’ve witnessed in the modern era” and said he threw his jersey in the trash, primarily on the basis of the disastrous and instantly emblematic failure to fall on the onside kick near the end of the loss.