It is always interesting to see Molly Qerim’s face when Stephen A. Smith makes his threats.
She looks like she rather be anywhere else in the world. Stephen A. has often cautioned current and former athletes about talking about him because he could expose a lot of their dirty secrets. I am not sure what he has on Tiki that we don’t already know, but he was unequivocal that he knew something.
Tiki famously left his wife, pregnant with twins, to hang out in dorm rooms with his now current wife, Traci Lynn Johnson. What else could Stephen A. know?
Here is why Stephen A. is mad.
One day later, Smith, a devout Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers fan, made it clear on First Take that he didn’t believe a “damn word” the team said in its statement:
“There’s no one more incriminating than the New York Giants when it comes to Black coaches. We are in the year 2022. All of these years, damn near a century for crying out loud, there is one single franchise that has not had a Black coach. That is the New York Giants.”
Smith’s claim is only partially correct.
As of February 2022, six NFL teams have never had a full-time Black general manager or head coach. The Giants are not among them because Jerry Reese, who is Black, served as their GM from 2007-17, though they have never employed a Black head coach.
Later that day, on WFAN’s Tiki & Tierney, Barber fired back at Smith’s commentary and the overall idea that the Giants have racist hiring practices.
“I can’t sit here, with conviction, like Stephen A. — who doesn’t know anybody in the Giants’ organization — and claim that they’re a racist organization,” Barber said. “I would never do that. The only reason I would do that is because I’m trying to make a point, and my point is that Brian Flores is trying to make a point.”
Smith waited until the end of First Take to let Barber know he doesn’t want to make an enemy out of him.
Flip the page for the DIRECT threat he made about Tiki and Tiki almost crying over the Giants being called racists.
