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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If you took 5 milliseconds of searching you'd know that I'm far to the right even you.
As for my original point:
Andrew Luck lost the Fiesta Bowl but he didn't go on a tirade or rant about the other team, the refs, or the teammate that muffed two FG attempts.
Stephan Taylor was cheated out of the game-tying touchdown in OT against Notre Dame, and he didn't go on a tirade against the refs.
And hundreds of other incredibly talented, competitive, and aggressive Stanford ballplayers, none of whom exhibited the jerk-like character of Richard Sherman.
Most of the Stanford student-athletes learn how to behave like a gentleman -- humility in victory, graciousness in defeat.
Guess Sherman missed that part of his education.
Parenthetical note -- dude, you're from Washington and you can hardly claim that your state, and your state University, aren't liberal and lefty to the max.
Especially now that you're all smoking pot legally.
Yeah, he looks like a thug in addition to talking like one. In other words, double confirmation of what he already know.
If you don’t want to be thought of as a thug, don’t look and act like one. Perception is Reality.
Thanks for the link. Posted it to my FB page. My admiration of him continues to grow with every new revelation. GO HAWKS GO HAWKS GO HAWKS!!!!!!!
NFL just released the audio and it was shown on local news here in Seattle.
After the play, you see Sherman walking towards Crabtree and he’s holding out his hand for a shake and he says “Hell of a game... hell of a game!!”
Crabtree responds not by shaking his hand, but by shoving it into Shermans face.
I suspect that if most FReepers were in Shermans shoes, they would react EXACTLY LIKE HE DID!!!
This all reminds me of the old country music song “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Stanford grads.”
It’s not feminization, it’s Super Bowl hype with 2 teams that don’t give bulletin board material. This is going to be a very dry run to the final game, neither team is going to say anything controversial, everybody is going to say how good the other team is, how much they respect them, how they’re going to have to play at a high level to win. Sherman’s rant will be the last “interesting” thing said this season, so the media will keep playing it up because the lack of interesting things happening doesn’t lessen the time or column inches they’re required to devote to the game.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000316756/article/sherman-crabtree-micd-during-nfc-championship
The video is very illuminating.
Yes, Crabtree is a jerk. But after the rebuff Sherman calls himself a "n-word" and then descends into Compton-talk (not Stanford talk) when he shouts at Crabtree's back, "Go yo' ass home! Go yo' ass home!"
Hardly the type of talk you expect from a victor who is magnanimous in his victory. And from someone who, the following day, begs that the media consider him to be a Stanford gentleman.
A football player that descends to that in the supercharged moment after a game is letting his true colors show.
So the trash talking that Muhammed Ali did via the press to his opponents was okay 50/60 years ago but what Sherman did was not?
Kupernick should have never thrown that ball, terrible decision. It wasn’t a great play as much as a poor ball.
Ali is the one who started that whole trash talking thing outside of the arena, in the first place.
He has nothing to apologize for. Crabtree had been saying Sherman wasn’t a good CB, Sherman shut him down, and had a nice little rant with no profanity in it after the game. Crabtree’s mouth wrote a check, he failed, Sherman got to rub it in his face, if Crabtree doesn’t like it he should have caught more passes. Sherman didn’t act like a thug, he acted like a guy who just kicked the crap out of a critic.
You didn’t see how Richard Sherman went over and gave Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews a bear hug? There was no danger from Sherman on the field. Sherman vented his anger at Crabtree who treated him with “disrespect.” It was Michael Crabtree’s unsportsmanlike sore loser attitude that should be given the criticism. It was Crabtree who gave Sherman a stiff arm in the face mask after Sherman held out his hand for a handshake as he was saying, “Hell of a game! Hell of a game!” Shame on Crabtree.
A few minutes later, Sherman is giving a 49er a handshake and a hug. No unsportsmanlike conduct there. Sherman was even kissed on the cheek by a enthusiastic fan. Sherman was doing what all players after a game should do, shake hands and give those on the opposing team your words of appreciation. On the other hand, Crabtree did not and even the refs noticed it, and pulled Sherman away before Crabtree got even worse.
Can’t argue my state has gone to pot. California is swimming right there with us in a sea of liberal foolishness. At least we like our guns...and pot. ;)
However, this issue is a manufactured one and isn’t reflective of anyone’s inferior personality trait unless we are discussing the media, who engineered this entire sad episode.
I think Sherman isn’t a thug....but he should have thought things through a bit before doing that post-game interview. And maybe it isn’t such a great idea to interview players immediately after a game when their adrenaline is still pumping.
1. Part of the problem was the reporter.
From my perspective, I had to view the interview several times to realize what was being said and not said. At first I thought Sherman was nutty.
Instead, he was simply answering the question like a good defensive back views the endzone.
He considered that territory as his. It is. The line of scrimage defines who owns which part of the ball field. He’s playing defense, defending his endzone.
He was pumped up and influenced by glandular emotion, but his thinking on the defense made good sense in a physical struggle.
The reporter didn’t understand that. She thinks the offense owns whatever they want as equally as the defense. To her, its just a challenge of throwing the ball into the endzone. The players are just jocks, and the pageantry is just salesmanship and revenue streams.
With all of that said, old school football also had players with virtue, where courage isn’t associated with glands, or being “in your face”, but is instead a simple response with natural force in the face of any adversity.
IMHO, if Aherman was weak, it was for speaking with his glands more than a simple dogmatic response.
That is latent... Ok I won’t say it. But I should say it. But I won’t say it.
I agree this thing is being blown way out of proportion to fill up space in the two weeks before the super bowl. Sherman acted like a dick when he got caught up in the moment by yelling and screaming like a rabid dog. No big thing, it happens. He appears to regret it and that should be it. No reason for all the vitriol being directed against him.
No one in the press or public made a big deal out of it back then.
So old a school it’s from black and white TV, if it even made it that far. Trash talk has been in sports for a long time, at least since the 70s, some good trash in the 60s too. Some guys keep their trash talk private, but in this day with cameras always being shoved in their faces that’s harder. If Fox hadn’t picked him for the post game interview, none of this happens. And remember it starts with Crabtree trash talking Sherman before the game.
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