Interview with Emmitt Smith: Business and Football

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00:00Inside the big game continues from New Orleans, Louisiana. We're

00:26sitting beside a man that needs no introduction. He's the only

00:29the all time leading rusher three times Super Bowl champion,

00:33Super Bowl MVP, NFL MVP, and a very successful entrepreneur

00:38right now, Mr. Emmett Smith in the house with us. It's an honor

00:42to have you on the show, my man. Thanks for joining us.

00:44Thank you for having me. Looking forward to it.

00:46So listen, you're a Super Bowl veteran. You've been here with

00:48the Dallas Cowboys before, but you're here with Tableau right

00:51now.

00:52Yes, yes. Tableau and I are here to help people understand if

00:55they want to watch the big game on Sunday, they can order their

00:58Tableau at Best Buy, they can have it shipped over to them

01:02from Amazon. And once you get it, you hook up the antenna and

01:05link up the device to your Wi Fi network and you can stream it

01:09all throughout all the TVs in your house. No subscription, no

01:14fees whatsoever. And you can get over 300 channels and watch the

01:18big game and watch all your sporting events. You can pause

01:20it, you can rewind it, you can record on it and everything

01:24else. So trying to help people cut down on all the

01:28subscription fees that they're paying for all the different

01:31apps that are out there.

01:32Yeah, money is tight right now. And cable bills aren't cheap,

01:35man. And as you stated, I'm one of the cool things about about

01:37Tableau, you can record anything at once. Yes. So if something's

01:41going on, you record something else without without a contract

01:44as well. Pretty bad.

01:45Well, you know, contracts, subscription agreements and all

01:48those kind of things.

01:48Unless you're getting paid at it, right? That's a good

01:50contract.

01:50Even if you are getting paid, I think even just because you have

01:54money don't mean that you have to spend it all.

01:56Yeah, that's how you stay rich.

01:57At the end of the day, if you got something like Tableau that

02:00cuts down on your subscription fees and everything else, and

02:03chop some of your bills in half, especially television bills,

02:08especially when the TV is off while you're working all day. So

02:10it's not like you're watching TV all day. So being able to save

02:14money in areas like this, this is this is a wonderful thing.

02:17Let me ask you, I mean, there's so many players who've seen so

02:20many stories, especially from former football players,

02:22especially, you know, in the 70s and the 80s, that have struggled

02:25financially didn't think about their post careers. You're a

02:29very successful entrepreneur. And you just recently have a big

02:33shopping district and development complex going on in

02:37South Carolina right now, right? A lot of other deals. At what

02:41point in your career was it in your career that you thought

02:44when I'm done playing? I want to be a businessman, I want to be

02:47an entrepreneur. Magic Johnson was one of the first guys to

02:50really take it right to the next level. Was there someone that

02:52influenced you? Or did you do this by yourself on your own?

02:54I didn't do nothing on my own. No one does anything on their

02:57own. No one becomes successful by themselves. I mean, the

03:00vision and and and and everything else comes from

03:04inspiration from others. Magic was one of those guys that was

03:08also an inspirational and a great mentor and a leader as

03:10well. Roger Staubach was one. Even my hot even one of my

03:14coaches when I was a kid, actually birthed him birthed in

03:17me this entrepreneur spirit. So growing up seeing what others

03:21was doing Jerry Jones himself growing up in the house of the

03:24Dallas Cowboys and watching how that organization function and

03:28operates and not only that but uh conduct business on the real

03:33estate level. All of those things became very inspirational

03:37for me and and for players like myself and many others. You

03:41know, I don't I think I think I had the desire to want to do

03:45more and wanted to learn more and I think that in itself

03:49helped me. And branch out into different fields, right? Try

03:52different things. Try different things and see what

03:54works and what doesn't work and you you learn a lot and and for

03:58me, I settled in on the real estate space. Magic, like you

04:01said, Magic Johnson was very successful. Once he started in

04:04the real estate space, Roger Staubach has been very

04:06successful in the real estate space and I'm working my way to

04:09to do this, do the same thing. So, you mentioned the Dallas

04:11Cowboys. I never think it's fair when people judge trades

04:15or coaching hires. We don't know, right? You've gotta let

04:17it see how it's gonna play out. Exactly. But at the same point

04:20in time, so I feel bad for coach Schottenheimer right now

04:23due to the reaction and I think it was almost because a little

04:26bit of the tease out there of a potential Deion Sanders reunion

04:30with the Dallas Cowboys. Right. I know a lot of former Cowboy

04:34players thought it would have been a positive infuse of

04:37energy. I think so. Into the football team. What was your

04:40take on the situation? I think it would have been all of those

04:42things. I think it would have been obviously it would have

04:44been the biggest and the most talked about story on a

04:48national and global stage. Didn't it seem like the stars

04:50were just sort of aligned with the right timing? Yes and no.

04:55Yes and no. I mean, right now, it's about as low as the

04:58Cowboys can actually get. So, it's been great for Prime. Prime

05:01would have came in and probably would have changed everything

05:03around and brought more energy and more focus. The question

05:06becomes the connection between players. Not that he he's not a

05:09great communicator. He's a great motivator but you also have a

05:12bunch of grown men that have been in the system right now

05:15that you have to get their attention and that would have

05:19been something that Prime would have had to adjust to but he has

05:24the right message. I think the question would have become how

05:30does he feel about having an impact at that level on

05:34players' lives like he hasn't has an impact on young men's

05:38life. I think Prime is really changing lives at the level

05:42that he's at. The highest GPA ever in Colorado's history. I

05:46mean, that's something that people don't probably talk

05:48about. People talk about D on this and all these and D on

05:51that. The highest GPA ever. Yeah. The kids are going to

05:55class, bro. Yeah, cuz he's he's a father figure to them and

05:59he's a he's not only a father figure but a mentor to them and

06:03he can connect with them because he has been where

06:06they're trying to go and the same thing translate at the

06:09professional level. He has been what a lot of these guys are

06:12trying to go. The question, bringing in the right resources

06:16around him, supporting him, giving him as much leeway to

06:20run the organization as he needs to. That was the part

06:23that's remaining to be seen. For Jerry, we don't know and and

06:30so we don't know how those dynamics would have played out.

06:32I would have loved to have seen it. Uh I know one thing, it

06:36definitely would have been the most talked about franchise in

06:39the history of all the sports because it would have went

06:42global in terms of the highest rate of regular season games in

06:44history. Period. I mean, but Cowboys get that anyway. Yeah.

06:48They get that anyway. It just would have just put it. It was

06:50just put it over the top. Put it over the top and the same

06:52thing would have happened on the scrutiny. Yeah. And all

06:55these other things would have happened as well because of the

06:58visibility. So, uh it had been interesting to see it. It

07:02really would have and and I believe that Dion would have

07:05done an excellent job. I wanna ask you and I know we only got

07:08a couple of minutes left and we really appreciate your time uh

07:10here on Media Row. The great, the term greatest ever gets

07:14tossed around a lot. You're the all-time uh leading rusher. A

07:17lot of talk about Patrick Mahomes. I'm thinking you're a

07:20guy cuz I hear Wally's won three times and and all these

07:23other guys. Does Troy Aikman not get enough love now in

07:26today's day and age? Cuz I think when he was playing, he

07:28did. Mm hmm. But I don't, you know, is does he get enough

07:31love now when people talk about great winning quarterbacks? I

07:35don't think he gets enough respect and um because I mean

07:42every everybody has their opinion about what a

07:45quarterback does. I think people are so busy comparing

07:48eras to one another era that he never played in. So, they

07:53don't know what kind of quarterback he could have been

07:55in this in this system. I mean, they forget that Troy Aikman

07:58ran the wishbone at Oklahoma. Yeah. And went to UCLA and

08:04became a passing quarterback. So, he could throw, he could

08:07throw the ball at Oklahoma but they just ran the ball and so.

08:10He got coach Switzer. He could've been an RPO offense.

08:14Yeah. Easy. But people are so busy comparing this guy to that

08:18guy. Different eras, different rules, different different

08:21systems and everything else and and it's just not right. It's

08:26just not even fair. Instead of just appreciating the talent

08:29for what the talent was at the time and what the talent is

08:32today. How good is Saquon? We got about a minute and a half

08:34right now. How much do you enjoy watching him and what's

08:38who do you think, who are you leaning with to win the Super

08:40Bowl? Can they become the first team to win three Super Bowls

08:42in a row? And don't forget everybody, you can watch the

08:45game on Tableau. You can order this online. You can get it

08:48over at Best Buy. Yeah. Very affordable too. It's like 60,

08:5165 bucks, man. Yeah, I mean, you might get a great deal. You

08:53might get in a big discount right about now. Hey, man.

08:57Who's who's going to win the game? Who are you leaning with?

09:01I'm leaning with the NFC. Philadelphia Eagles, huh?

09:04Philadelphia Eagles. Uh I hate to say Flybirds. Yeah, it must

09:07be hard. Fly Eagles fly. When it is the the eagle. The bowl

09:13eagle. Emmett, it's a sincere honor to have you on the set

09:17here on Meteor Up. I'm going to tell you something on the way

09:20out though, man. You broke my heart, bro. I'm a lifelong

09:23Buffalo Bill fan. Well, you broke your own heart. Y'all

09:26broke your own heart. I didn't. Hey, I thought we had you in

09:29Atlanta till you ran the ball down our throat coming out of

09:31the in the third quarter. Troy told the story the other day.

09:33But bro, y'all kept turning the ball over. Oh, man. You turn

09:37the ball over in big games like this. You are supposed to lose.

09:41Yeah. Especially if you turn it over to an offensive unit like

09:44ours or a team like ours. Turn the ball. Let the Eagles turn

09:46the ball over in the pass at home. Give them more

09:48opportunity to get. They're going to lose.

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