OT- Thoughts on Richard Sherman interview
January 20th, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
You old sweat heart, you.
January 20th, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
You just leaving this up as an example then? Like a pirate in gallows?
January 20th, 2014 at 10:17 AM ^
According to his interview, the Seahawks won solely because he's the best. It had nothing to do with the prior 3.99 quarters or Smith's heads-up play to be in position to catch the deflection.
If this was an interview after a win in week 6, then I probably wouldn't care. But after clinching a trip to the Super Bowl you'd hope that any teamate would spread the wealth a bit.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:17 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
So, people who swear are thugs? Well shit, I better stop posting on this fucking blog because I am a thug now.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:31 AM ^
He would have been on live television in front of millions of people, including a lot of kids. You're only visible to a couple of readers on this blog. Big difference.
But he didn't curse so it's all well and good.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:50 AM ^
BlackOps, there's about a million other reasons why you should stop posting.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:33 AM ^
Bart Scott didn't call out another player against whom he just competed in the same way Sherman did to Crabtree. He also talked about his team, not himself in the way Sherman did. No class on the part of Richard Sherman. No one asked him if he was the best corner in the game.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:18 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:18 AM ^
For the death of the carriage return.
You can still hit return on the iphone and it will put in a return so I'm not really sure why posting from a phone makes a difference.
As for the post - eh, he's an NFL football player, I've long since stopped expecting them to act like normal people.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
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January 20th, 2014 at 10:18 AM ^
It is football. You just made the play of the game to get you into the Super Bowl.
What do people expect when you interview someone a minute after the game? These guys are so amped up, I often wonder why we do not here more of this.
I especially like that it is getting all the stuffy guys worked up.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:18 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
And flipped the channel. That was my perspective.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:18 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:26 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:31 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:45 AM ^
There are classy players in today's NFL as well. Calvin Johnson is arguably the best WR in the game and he is soft spoken, classy, and consistently gives his teamates the credit for success. Or how about Manning and Brady, two of the best QBs to ever play the game and act the same way. There are a mix of classy and classless players in all sports, the classiness of the NFL today isn't all that different from the 80s/90s.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:40 AM ^
Deion Sanders or Michael Irvin of being classy.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
anybody accusing them of being thugs.
January 20th, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
I remember lots of folks calling Michael Irvin a thug back in 1996 after the drug arrest and the witness tampering.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:28 AM ^
I believe he said: "Crabtree. Don’t open your mouth about the best or I’m going to shut it for you real quick!”
January 20th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:21 AM ^
-You're welcome.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
wouldn't you?
January 20th, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:26 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 10:29 AM ^
I'd love it.
January 20th, 2014 at 1:44 PM ^
I'd probably be more upset about it. Because people could talk shit to me about it and they'd be absolutely right to do so. Dude embarrassed himself, hopefully he learns from it.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:22 AM ^
I, for one, would love to invite him to my next office meeting. He'd Terry Tate-ify the joint.
Though I must admit, I cracked up because I thought he was giving the shoutout to LL Bean, not LOB.
The next time I'm interviewed , I'll do something similar: BIG EDDIE'S BIG AND TALL!
January 20th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
This comment is fantastic.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
Thought he looked like an idiot.
In the ultimate team game, all he could talk about was some kind of perceived slight to his self-proclamation of being the best. Grow up already.
As for those labeling him a "thug", that is dumb. But it certainly wasn't a "classy" move on his part.
All of that said, I would love to see an interview if he gets torched by Payton for the Superbowl-winning TD - that would be priceless.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
Dude just played the biggest game if his career, then they shove a microphone in his face.
You'd be emotional too.
Honestly, I don't think he cares about our opinions.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:37 AM ^
time before he sees another post-game mic. Neither is he likely on anybody's short list to do a hair product commercial.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^
Considering the level of discussion and reaction that this has generated, I'd expect him to get post-game mics shoved in his face all the time, now.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:09 PM ^
I frankly expect this story to be huge, in what is without any doubt at all, the worst week in sports in America: the Super Bowl preview week. There is nothing so non-newsworthy, so completely void of import, and so self-indulgently naval-gazing, as the Super Bowl hype week.
And in all of that, this "story" will fit perfectly.
People will suggest -- rightly -- that if I hate the NFL and the Super Bowl so much, then just turn it off and don't watch. And yes, that is exactly what I will do. I generally watch about zero complete NFL games every year. I watch parts of maybe a half-dozen, and I see the highlights that we all get exposed to via ESPN, etc.
I don't watch the NFL. I don't have a favorite team in the NFL; I pay only enough attention to know how select Michigan players are faring in their new profession. And I feel wonderful about all of that. I make it my business to see to it that the NFL gets no more of my money than is forcibly extracted from my cable bill, and no more of my attention than is pure coincidence.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:32 PM ^
I really expected you to launch into an "I don't even own a TV!" somewhere in there. We get it, you're a hipster.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
also played the biggest game in his career at the Sugar Bowl and he was super emotional, too. Just for comparison.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^
Did he embarrass his team with his comments? Denegrate an opposing player? Scare a nubile young woman just trying to make it in the world (this part is hyperbole).
No he did not. Emotion is one thing, having some self control entirely another.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:23 AM ^
Do I think that, at later moment, RS will look at the video and say "****, I could have played that a bit more chill"? Sure. Do I think that his actions were, taken out of context, pretty embarrassing? I could see that argument.
All that being said, I can't believe how sanctimonious some people are being on this board.
First of all, his response was GENUINE (and, I might add FRIGGIN entertaining). Not some talking points cut from the Crash Davis school of media engagement, but something that reflected a guy in the moment who was passionate. It's the same reason I find Harbaugh FUN (in an annoying way, but still) because he is all into this without pretense or window dressing.
Second, how many of you who played and or follow sports have not had thoughts like those that RS had in the moment? This **** talking happens all the time on the field with the majority of players, though many learn how to shield it from the media.
Also:
---Crabtree called him out the week before (a mild one, "not the best cb in the NFL...") but still called him out.
---You don't know what was said during the game to set Sherman off (see: Zidane, Z.).
January 20th, 2014 at 1:47 PM ^
This has been brought up a ton. And yet this happens every year numerous times where people are interviewed after winning a game and this doesn't seem to happen constantly. Does this mean all those people cared less than Sherman did?
January 20th, 2014 at 10:27 AM ^
with the way black people celebrate. Or call it ambivalence. We can't really decide whether we want to punish people for doing it creatively, celebrate it, exploit it, join in, whatever. But it's a real thing.
Personally, I think you just draw the (non-racial) line between meanness and unsportsmanlike dissing of others, limit it so it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game, then shut up and accept it. Who cares if some old middle class guy doesn't approve? Well, the money does. But if sport and spectacle don't provide some mildly transgressive possibilities, people will get their bread and circuses elsewhere. . . and the NFL knows that, too.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:54 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 11:03 AM ^
because they aren't from compton and they aren't black!
richard sherman is definitely not being looked at as classless in the eyes of the people he grew up with. and that's not because the people he grew up with are inherently classless, it's because that is who they are.
additionally, you do start to see more and more young white kids embodying this culture. case in point: nik stauskas. everyone loved it when he was yelling "I run this shit" after hitting that dagger three.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:08 AM ^
That was in very seconds after the play when emotions are extremely high. He wasn't still yelling it post-game. That is a HUGE difference to me.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
some people stay amped up for longer than others. that's just human differences. some people work hard to keep their emotions in check. other people try hard to keep them in check but fail. other people don't try at all. personally, i don't see what the big deal is about people showing their emotions.
additionally, sherman may literally have adhd and was taking adderall to suppress that.
January 20th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
"case in point: nik stauskas. everyone loved it when he was yelling "I run this shit" after hitting that dagger three."
I see a definitie difference between:
A) I'm great.
2) I'm great and my opponent sucks.
If Sherman had limited himself to A (as Stauskas did) - I'd think it was a little over the top for a professional, but no big deal.
I take the denigrating of an opponent, outside the action of the game, in an interview to be the big and bad difference.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
you are wasting your time and energy, IMO. His rant was dumb, I agree. And I'm trying to raise a thoughtful kid myself. Gallant, generous--any of those things Sherman's comment was not. And Erin Andrews' reaction was appropriate. What I'm objecting to is the notion that this makes Sherman a thug, the over-the-top response.