ESPN’s Brian Windhorst Just Secretly Used Stephen A. Smith’s Office for a Rich Eisen Show Interview

Brian Windhorst joined the show from a suspiciously well-appointed office, and it took Rich about ten seconds to figure out it wasn't his.

The cowboy hat gave it away. So did the photographs. "Are you in Stephen A's office right now?" Rich asked. Windhorst came clean. There was a studio issue, something wrong with the lighting, so he relocated to Stephen A. Smith's office without exactly clearing it first.

Once caught, Windhorst gave the full tour. There were suit swatches everywhere, fabrics Stephen A was picking out, and Windhorst figured he was already in deep enough to maybe grab one for himself. "I could face sanctions," he admitted, before reasoning that Stephen A was mad at someone else that day and probably wouldn't have the bandwidth to be mad at him too.

Then came the figurine. Windhorst had positioned his chair specifically so the camera wouldn't catch a small Stephen A statue behind him, but with the secret out, he revealed it. He called it mildly off-putting and said he was keeping an eye on it because he didn't trust it. Childhood memories of Chucky were doing some work here. He was not, under any circumstances, going to turn off the light.

"I think it's keeping an eye on you, Brian," Rich offered, which did not help.

There was also the matter of the chair, which Windhorst could not stop praising. Rich Corinthian leather, feet up on the desk, the whole executive fantasy. Bring me my lunch, Windhorst joked.

The real comedy was in how it happened. With the studio down, Windhorst said, a few people who work nearby were asked whether Stephen A would mind. Three of them gave three different looks. One said no problem. The others were less sure. "So you know, if you see me on the street, you'll know what happened," Windhorst said.

Rich thanked him for the time, and for putting everything at risk to do it.