Posted on 01/23/2014 11:20:30 AM PST by tom h
RENTON, Wash. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Richard Sherman wondered if he came to the NFL 20 years too late.
The Seattle Seahawks’ All-Pro cornerback wondered if his swagger might have fit better a few decades earlier when that confidence and an unfiltered tongue was perhaps more accepted.
“I studied the old school game more than I studied the new school game, and I play it that way. It rubs a lot of people the wrong way,” Sherman said Wednesday. “Giving a true speech after a game, a true passionate speech is old school football. Playing press corner and sitting up there every play is old school football. I guess maybe I just haven’t adjusted to the times.”
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Meant to say Masters in Communication, not MBA. Hence his ESPN career upon finishing his NFL career.
So sick of this non-controversy. I saw the interview when it happened and I thought it was a good argument against interviewing players immediately after a game. These guys are jacked up on adrenaline and testosterone, things are said. I didn’t know anything about this guy before the interview, but from what I’ve seen since then he seems congenial and thoughtful. This is a media-driven thing; they make me sick. And Erin Andrews looking dazed and confused on the field was funny. pfft
He acted without any self-control. If that is how a thug behaves, he was a thug. I doubt Manning would have been a thug if he won.
Those words were painted across the wall of our fieldhouse, back when I played on a basketball team. That attitude is basic to good sportsmanship. I don't see it as much anymore among athletes. You don't call attention to yourself over your team, you don't demean an opponent, etc. Old school.
If you have ever been around Special Forces types they operate in the same arena. What a bunch of jerks.
But I am fine with that. It is the job.
Go out on a football field and get your brains beaten in day after day. My body and my mind just couldn’t take the long term abuse.
Richard Sherman is not Peyton Manning. Should he be?
And actually they interviewed Erin after it happened, she said something to the effect that she was never scared, knew what he was talking about, and kinda felt lucky getting him to talk when he was so charged up.
I was going by the outraged calls on ESPN radio I have heard. The prevailing theory is that it was considered wrong, where others have not been before, was that he was much bigger than she is, and that he is Black and she is White.
Bart Scott 2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM9mbgswhcw
Nowhere near the hype.
Nope. He doesn’t have to be Manning to not be a thug.
So when I ride my HD to work and wear my chaps and leather jacket and I would walk into my office it was okay for the elderly finance gal to call me a thug regardless of the fact that I am a college graduate and professional engineer?
You’re correct. He didn’t apologize. Because he has absolutely nothing for which to apologize.
I remember another football intellectual who graduated from a fine university, and later was unjustly accused of double murder, his writings were exposed and he turned out to be illiterate. I think his name was O.J. Simpson.
So you know the guy? Robert Sherman I mean?
His other interviews have been very thoughtful and well spoken. They caught the man with red eyes, testosterone, endorphin and adrenaline crazed high that makes it possible for him to perform in an impossibly physicallly demanding sport.
That makes him a thug? You want him to wear a skirt, hold a little tea cup with his pinkie finger sticking out? Maybe just a hint of rouge?
Good Grief.
He did it after the forty-whiner guy pushed him in the face. Sherm went over to home to congrat. him for a well played game - the guy went of on Sherm. Then that airhead reporter sticks a mic in his face right after .....
Earlier in the article, he said when it comes to football, he likes the "old school game." But when it comes to dealing with the media, he's quickly learning the "new school game" of playing the race card and turning into what Larry Elder calls a victicrat.
One correction: He’s not a “warrior”. He’s a football player.
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...on Wednesday, Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” aired previously unheard audio of the Sherman-Crabtree altercation.
“Hell of a game,” Sherman told Crabtree before getting shoved. “Hell of a game.”
Furthermore, it is being widely reported that Michael "Dick" Crabtree tried to start a fight with Sherman at a pre-season charity event.
Did Sherman behave like a perfect "gentleman" immediately following that game? No. He would have clearly shown himself to be the better man if he had simply said nothing about Crabtree at all in his interview.
But I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I understand that there ARE limits to exactly how much crap one person can put up with from another person - and those limits differ from person to person - and excitement & adrenaline can affect those limits even within the same person.
I've seen lots of other players immediately after games, all charged up, but none of them did what Sherman did.
Look, we all have to fight the perceptions that we give off. Not one person who called Sherman a thug, or worse, will be changed by his excuses or attempts to blame others.
If he wants to change how fans view him, he should look in the mirror. Cut his hair. Take some classes in being a gentleman over the offseason. And next year, when he gives a postgame interview and sounds like the type of graduate his university typically produces, we will remember and he will be forgiven.
But he hasn't figured that out yet.
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