On ESPN's "First Take" Wednesday — a show so shouty and generally awful that I stay away from it and generally advise you to do the same – it got SO SHOUTY AND AWFUL that I just couldn't look away.
The hot take that got things brewing: Co-host Max Kellerman called Adrian Peterson, the former Vikings running back who is now a free agent, a "souped-up Frank Gore." He tried to walk it back a little by clarifying that he meant it at this point of Peterson's career.
But it was too late. Fellow co-host Stephen A. Smith pounced like a hungry lion getting tossed a steak.
"YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!" Smith yelled.
"HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND," Smith thundered.
"I SHOULD THROW SOMETHING AT YOU," Smith continued.
"THAT'S A DISGRACE," Smith added later.
It was probably the most nuanced conversation in the history of the program.
