Emmitt Smith forged his post-football television career via ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, where he proved that he can cut a rug.

As a result, he’s now a fixture on ESPN, where he often talks as if he’s cut his tongue.

We wonder how Emmitt feels about his current employer’s sister network, ABC, poking fun at his shortcomings as a broadcaster.  Specifically, Jimmy Kimmel recently stuck it to Emmitt, with a highlight reel of some of Smith’s verbal gaffes.  Here it is, courtesy of our friends at Awful Announcing.

Though the prevailing thought has been that Emmitt will be one and done in Bristol, the folks at ESPN who hired him might not want to admit defeat by firing him so quickly. 

And maybe, just maybe, they’ve decided that Emmitt is actually good for business.  Heck, plenty of our own readers now are glued to the TV whenever Emmitt is on the air, in order to witness his next verbal gem.  He’s a modern day Yogi Berra, and there’s room for a guy like that on television, if Emmitt is able to realize that Kimmel’s audience wasn’t laughing with him.