Kordell Stewart
Former NFL quarterback and wide receiver known as "Slash," who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the University of Colorado
Kordell Stewart (Former NFL quarterback and wide receiver known as "Slash," who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the University of Colorado) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Kordell Stewart sexuality rumor, Christianity, Kordell Stewart / Slash & Burn.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Kordell Stewart sexuality rumor
Stewart says he refuses to defend lies and only responds when his space or family is threatened.
“I don't defend lies. I don't defend anything else other than you get in my space too close or you bother my family”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 26:40
Stewart argues that his silence allowed the rumor to spread further.
“all I had to do was talk and it would quiet down. But because I didn't say a word, it affected so many people”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 26:24
Stewart denies that the rumor was ever true.
“You know, I'm sorry for those who thought it was true. Like, this never, ever in my life existed. That rumor was just that”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 8:07
Stewart recounts that the rumor began in 1998 with a phone call to his home.
“In 1998, when this rumor got started, this started off with a phone call to my house phone”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 5:04
Christianity
Stewart states that his priorities are God first, family second, and career third.
“first we say like this, we say first is God. You know, second is your family. Third is your career”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 48:50
Stewart says he relied on God rather than his own instincts to cope with the rumor.
“That's why I said it wasn't me. I had to put God in the middle of this, bro”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 15:33
Kordell Stewart / Slash & Burn
Stewart praises HBO and NFL Films for portraying his story accurately.
“they were able to capture the moment exactly the way I needed to be captured, bro”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 16:47
Stewart says the documentary was his first real chance to speak about events in Pittsburgh from 28 years earlier.
“28 years since a lot of stuff that transpired in Pittsburgh took place that I never had a chance to really speak”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 1:28
Mobile quarterbacks in the NFL
Stewart argues that switching from receiver to quarterback is uniquely difficult and underappreciated.
“Like, do you know how hard it is to go play receiver and then to set your behind up behind center and be a quarterback?”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 15:33
Stewart claims he was the first player to record 20 passing and 10 rushing touchdowns in a season.
“I had 20 touchdowns passing, over 10, over 20, over 10 rushing. That was the first time that ever was done in the history of the game”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 9:20
Baltimore Ravens
Stewart says no single defender scared him, though Baltimore was the toughest opponent.
“there was no one player that scared me, man. Like I, I just had no fear, man”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 46:06
Colorado Buffaloes football
Stewart says he chose Colorado because it had won the national championship and he was its top recruit.
“Colorado won the national championship, so I couldn't go nowhere else. I was their number one choice”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 45:19
Pittsburgh Steelers
Stewart says he is not bitter toward Pittsburgh and remains in regular contact with the Rooney family.
“People think I'm mad now, but I go back to Pittsburgh all the time. The Rooney family, Dan Rooney III, he reaches out to me all the time”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 29:34
Bullying
Stewart objects most to the rumor being spread to children in Pittsburgh schools.
“But the problem I do have is they fed that stuff to those kids”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 26:40
Gratitude
Stewart asks fans to gather in his jersey and post a photo so he can return to Pittsburgh to thank them.
“find me 100 to 200 people, that are bold and brash enough to put on a Cordell Stewart jersey, turn backwards, point at the name on the back”
Mick Unplugged: Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick Unplugged (Oct 31, 2026) · Listen from 11:49
Appearances
Kordell Stewart: Reclaiming My Story | Mick UnpluggedMick Unplugged · Oct 31, 2026 · 49 min
Former Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart tells Mick Hunt about the decades-old Pittsburgh rumor, his silence, faith, his receiver-to-quarterback career, and his HBO documentary.
Often appears with
- Mick Hunt · 1 shared episode