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Anthony Smith: Shrinking Violet, Model of Humility

by Jodie Lynn Boduch on December 7th, 2007

Which team is more likely to have a player so cocky that he can “guarantee” a win in the next game: the 12-0 Patriots or the 9-3 Steelers?

Anyone exposed to a Pats press con knows that they’re about as salacious as a bespectacled, turtleneck-wearing schoolmarm who considers the fashion sense on Little House on the Prairie ”too edgy.”

So . . . that would leave us someone from the Steelers. That someone is defensive back Anthony Smith, whose Humility Ranking is wedged somewhere between Bode Miller and the Williams sisters. Here’s what he had to say about the upcoming Pats-Steelers matchup:

“People keep asking me if we’re ready for the Patriots. They should be asking if they’re ready for us . . . We’re going to win. Yeah, I can guarantee a win.”

Yeah, and we can guarantee that a certain DB won’t ever be remembered for his sportsmanship.

Somehow, and maybe it’s because we’re on a Looney Tunes kick, hearing Simth’s remarks reminded us of one particular cartoon character:

Remember how Marvin the Martian wanted to blow up  Earth (because it obstructed his “view of Venus”) using his Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

Smith’s audacity is along the same lines, only without detonation devices affecting the future of our planet.

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