We’re a little slow getting ot his one, but it’s certainly worth noting.  The quality of insight you gain from watching Emmitt Smith on the NFL pre-game show on ESPN is difficult to measure.  It’s terribly exciting to pay careful attention to each of his phrases, just waiting for him to say something that makes absolutely no sense.  If you need a quick summary of what Emmitt has brought tot he table, click here.

Anyway, we were tuning in for a few minutes to the Monday Night Countdown show on ESPN this past week.  Of course, the first topic of discussion was whether Michael Strahan would come out of retirement to join the Giants.  Each ex-jock on the set gave their take, then Emitt chimed in with this jewel:

“He’s not thinking about playing football.  He’s sitting over there in Greece right now sipping on mai tais.”

True, Strahan was in Greece.  But mai tais?  He went all the way to Greece so he could sip on a mai tai?  The same drink that was invented in California in the 1940s?  But, at least the name “mai tai” is Greek.  Wait, no it isn’t.  It’s a phrase that in Tahitan means “good.”

So we’re not quite sure where the mai tai came from.  Maybe Strahan loves to have a mai tai.  Maybe there is some connection to Greece that only Emmitt knows.

We assume that the rest of Strahan’s travel schedule will include a trip to France to sip on a margarita, then on to Sweden for a spot of team, followed by a trip to Germany to drink down a cool Budweiser.