The ESPN NFL analyst drew the ire of sports fans across the country after a bizarre question he asked during an appearance on the network’s sports talk show ‘First Take.’
During a segment where ‘First Take’ host Stephen A. Smith listed his five biggest fears, in homage to Halloween, Orlovsky decided to take the conversation in a completely different direction.
“Two questions, okay, and I probably shouldn’t ask the first one, but I’ll ask it, because I’m dead serious: Why do black people smell better than white people?” Orlovsky asked.
The question prompted a brief moment of silence on set where Smith, co-host Molly Querim and Jason McCourty seemed stunned by the question.
ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes, who was not in the studio but was on the show via call, was seen fluttering her eyes in shock at the question.
ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky asked a strange question in an appearance on ‘First Take’ on Thursday
Smith and McCourty proceeded to answer the question, but not before social media picked up the clip and eviscerated Orlovsky.
‘The amount of embarrassment in the room once Dan said this was palpable. “This is what ESPN has become,” wrote a user on X, formerly Twitter.
Another user on the social media site said: “we as a society have outgrown the need for Dan Orlovsky to be on TV.”
“I pray for the day ESPN stops allowing clowns like this,” another user said.
Another wrote: ‘How much longer do we have to pretend this guy is normal or well-adjusted in some way?’ He’s screwed!’
Orlovsky, a former NFL quarterback for more than a decade, has been with ESPN for several years.
Not only is he on ESPN’s daily NFL studio show, ‘NFL Live,’ but he is also a color commentator for the company as part of its No. 2 broadcast team.
