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Stephen A. Smith Hated The Super Bowl Blackout More Than You Did

by Jordan Rabinowitz | 11:00 pm, February 4th, 2013

It doesn’t take much to rile up Stephen A. Smith nowadays, or any days, but the Super Bowl blackout had him fuming. Now I’m sure many of us, especially Ravens fans, felt that Baltimore was jipped out of some valuable momentum after starting the second half with a rollicking kick-return touchdown courtesy of Jacoby Jones.

And yes, we can agree that the blackout on this stage was pretty egregious. Momentum shouldn’t be swayed by some manufactured, avoidable occurrence, especially considering the circumstances. But god forbid the 49ers could mount a comeback, Stephen A. wasn’t going to explain its cause as anything but the blackout and your argument is invalid.

This is TERRIBLE. INEXCUSABLE. And Embarrassing. Somebody should pay for this!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 4, 2013

Well it couldn’t have been that embarrassing, seeing as it didn’t warrant any caps.

This is sickening. If somehow B’More’s momentum in thwarted here, what do you say. I’d ban the SB from New Orleans for next 20 yrs for this!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 4, 2013

I can hear Stephen A. saying his signature “thwarted” over and over again in my head. Man, he loves that word.

Okay! I’m gonna calm down. I understand these things happen. My cuz is an Engineer. But damn, I’m so disgusted with this!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 4, 2013

Alright alright, here we go Stephen A., some level-headed tweeting. I’m glad your engineer cousin helped you see the light.

This is some straight-up B.S. A Power Outage changes the momentum. DISGRACEFUL!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 4, 2013

You don’t know this, but Stephen A’s cousin actually gave up his engineering pursuits during the four-minute stretch in which San Francisco was mounting its comeback. At least that’s what has to have happened for all of his sympathy to suddenly disappear.