Smith was not the only sports star who hails from Pensacola. He says the city is ripe with sports stars.
Most of my relatives are still there. But not only am I from there, Roy Jones, Jr. is from Pensacola, Trey Richardson is from Pensacola, Doug Baldwin who plays with the Seattle Seahawks on the championship team last year is from Pensacola. People from Florida just know how to do the thing. Pensacola has turned out some tremendous athletes. Don Sutton, the Hall of Fame [baseball] player. Then you start talking Bubba Washington, right over from Baghdad, across the water in Sarasota County, but part of the Pensacola area. As small as it is, Pensacola has turned out some tremendous athletes.”
As a former Cowboy, does Smith have plans to attend a Super Bowl?
“I’m going,” Smith says. “One thing about my boys, I can say this year, they look like a complete football team. This is the first time I’ve seen them like this since the Parcells era, to be honest with you. These boys are playing very good football right now and i’m so happy for them. To have this type of success I know what kind of sacrifice it takes. To see Tony Romo out there playing with fractured bones in his back, and Mark O’Meara running the football the way he’s running it, our defense is playing lights out flying around to the football.
It’s fun to watch them play. You see where the potential can lead this team and hopefully to the Super Bowl in Arizona. Me and my wife just got back from watching them in London and it was an absolute treat. You gotta pat these boys on the back. We been giving them hell the last couple of years so why not pat them on the back right now.”
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