OT- Thoughts on Richard Sherman interview
January 20th, 2014 at 2:38 PM ^
I was waiting for a reply like this, and think you're spot on. The controversy over this is ridiculous and I don't understand people drawing their battle lines over a few words at the end of a football game (non-bigoted, violent, ect. category).
Full disclosure, I can't imagine myself reacting the same way, for whatever that's worth.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:54 AM ^
I think your visceral response to the Sherman interview kinda depends on where you fall on the young/old & black/white axis. I would guess that most older, white guys like me would be horrified by it and most young, black men like Sherman would not have any issue with whatsoever. And young white guys and older black men probably break about 50-50 in how they see it depending on their own personal bias and experiences.
For me I'm in the camp that doesnt have a problem with it and thought, while a bit over the top, it was refreshing to see pure, unfiltered emotion on display. He was excited and it showed through loud and clear. But I also have no problem if he gets it right back 10 fold from either the Patriots or somebody else because of it.
I'll say this much though. Next year's first Seahawk/49ers game is going to be "must see TV" for me at least.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:26 AM ^
lots of young white people have started embracing (or exploiting) black culture these days.
i bet if you asked nik stauskas how he felt about the interview, he would say richard sherman is swagged out of his mind.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:32 AM ^
Maybe. But I remember a couple of the student responses to this when you brought it up yesterday and they ran about 50-50 supportive/I'm outraged.
Prolly more of a scattershot graph than a linear plot line though. Look at me. I'm old, white and had no problem with it. So thee are outlyers everywhere.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:00 PM ^
back when you were in your twenties, that graph would look like a linear plot.
but now it's a scatterplot.
i call that progress!
EDIT: i actually didn't read your whole post, and you already said exactly what i was getting at.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 2:35 PM ^
to identify something for being what it is.
it is condescending to identify something and then label it as classless and thuggish just because it doesn't fit an arbitrarily defined norm of acceptability.
January 20th, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
Nik Stauskas is white????
January 20th, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^
For those who think he was just emotional, caught in the moment, etc. He had what 10 minutes after the play before the interview? It's not like EA interviewed him as he was running off the field after the interception. Seattle still had take the victory formation three times before the game ended, and it isn't like he wasn't queued up for the interview before he went on TV. He definitely had time to calm down and think about what he wanted to say. He chose to attack the opposing player (after already going after him after the play). This wasn't an emotional outburst. This was Sherman being childish and self-involved.
Why is Schwarz classless for his dust-up with Harbaugh, Tom Crean is classless for yelling at an opposing team's assistant coach after a game, but Sherman is just an emotional athlete doing his thing?
January 20th, 2014 at 1:24 PM ^
I don't think so. I would say he had about a minute or two before Erin interviewed him. I guess ne could get technical and check with someone that DVR'd the game to see, if it definitely wasn't close to that long.
January 20th, 2014 at 2:08 PM ^
Plus his interview after he was showered and in his suit and tie after he time plenty of time to calm down he didn't.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:02 AM ^
I don't think he is a thug at all. I do think he is very self-centered and childish... His team is going to the Super Bowl yet it is still all about him post game. I have almost as much of a problem with this as I do with someone like Suggs just being a buffoon.
The emotion is fine and good, the fact that it is perpetually the Richard Sherman Show to Richard Sherman says a lot about the guy to me.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:58 AM ^
Those dudes are so jacked full of T (amongst other chemicals) I would think this happens more often. He looked foolish, but it was funny. Erin Andrews was shocked, but I don't think she was scared. She is a pro. I am not sure women should be on the sideline of football games (they don't have any expert opinions to offer), but she handled it well. Hilarious.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:59 AM ^
He was all hopped up on emotions and steroids.
January 20th, 2014 at 10:59 AM ^
So what about the post game presser where he's still going on about it? Is he amped up then too? He broke up the pass, the other player made the INT. I can't remember what down it was but SF still might have a chance. This is all about Richard Sherman and his ego. I hope Peyton picks on him all day long and makes him look like a clown with his receiving corps.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
But then after showering and putting a suit on he takes his NFC championship press conference time to belittle an opponent. Classless.
There is a right way to win and a wrong way to win. He will learn that the hard way eventually.
January 20th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 11:10 AM ^
People who are better at life than other people?
January 20th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
I would expect a Stanford educated professional football player would say exactly that to a professional talking head troll. And said Stanford educated professional football player would be accurate.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:27 AM ^
I hope this is a joke. No one should say that to someone else ever, regardless of how much truth may be behind it. The fact that one would feel the need to say that pretty muich invalidates the statement to begin with. I hate Bayless, I am all for someone taking him down a notch or ten, but to do so in that manner is pretty sickening to me.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:33 AM ^
The Michigan fanbase is built on that saying in regards to MSU/OSU. Hell, I have heard Michigan fans say they won't move to Ann Arbor because the people who went to U of M and live there are so snobby about it if you didn't.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
the guy is a clown.
First of all he got beat on the route. the late throw got him to the ball, so im not sure what crabtree has to do with that.
.I have no problem of wit hthe antics when the game is going. but when the clock hits zero, it time to show some dignity and class. I live in seattle and the biggest problem is for me is that i'll have 35kids in the fall that want to be richard sherman.
He always says he's a team guy, but in the biggest win of your career the first thing you talk about is yourself? douche.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:03 AM ^
but I don't see anything wrong with what Sherman said. People will focus on this and will take some pressure off his team, many of which have never been to a SB. Now Sherman has to back up his talk and limit D. Thomas.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:03 AM ^
The man made a play to send his team to the Superbowl. It wasn't anything crazy like people have seemed to make it out to be.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:06 AM ^
I love smack talk during the game as much as the next guy, as a matter of fact when I played ball I talk a ton. But, was this not after the game? Was he not talking with a reporter? I didn't know that Erin Andrews was asking about what Crabtree said, I think that she asked about the play at the end of the game. I think that his response was classless and he and the team should be embarrassed. I can tell you this, if I was the owner or coach, he wouldn't have been on the podium receiving the trophy for me. I would also tell him that he can talk with the press, when he can grow up and act his age. He took one of the best performances of his career and turned it into an embarrassment to himself and his team.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:10 AM ^
Sherman is obviously a flamboyant personality who strongly believes in his own ability. I mean without his deflection that play wins the game for the 49ers. You think the fans in Seattle and his teammates care how he responded immediately after their win. Yeah, I don't think so.
The reaction from Crabtree to his remarks was just as excellent. He just called his antics made for TV. And wouldn't get into a press-created war of words, saying, he doesn't make his case in the media, he does it on the field. He said if you looked at Sherman's work all game, he only was involved in a few plays, and 49er receivers were open. "(Sherman) is a TV guy. I play ball. He knows what time it is."
January 20th, 2014 at 11:12 AM ^
Crabtree is an infamous trash talker and was jawing all game. Dude makes a sweet play to send his team to the superbowl. Are you not entertained?!
I can't believe the prudes that are criticizing this guy. And people wonder why the stereotypes of Michigan fans sitting on their hands and living in the 1920's exist.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^
Seriously though, the man is a jerk and it isn't for that display. It's for screaming at a three time Super Bowl after beating him, for talking nonstop trash, and for generally being a poor winner.
The man is an asshole. Crabtree may deserve his verbal comeuppance, but Sherman does this to everyone. He doesn't respect the game or his opponents. If disliking that makes me
a prude I'll gladly accept the title.
Pride cometh before the fall. Methinks Messr Sherman's descent will be a rapid and painful one.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
Seems like a guy with no control over his emotions and an over developed ego. A prime candidate for the police blotter some day.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
Do you really believe this reaction is only shared by Michigan fans??
January 20th, 2014 at 11:14 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
Probably the worst possible time to interview him, but I loved it. Funny, if anything.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:28 AM ^
Those postgame one-on-ones have a formula. The reporter is hoping for the athlete/coach to say something interesting, but usually it's just a chance for the TV audience to bask in the thrill of victory. Instead of playing along, Sherman seemed like he was yelling at Andrews, or the world. He could have even been excused for gloating...witness Tim Biakabutuka's postgame rebuttal of Terry Glenn's Clubber Lang mimicry in 1995. Tim was defiant but calm and happy. Sherman seemed angry or perhaps unhinged. He could use a few PR lessons. He had a chance to be Rod Tidwell and instead came off like Ron Artest.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:36 AM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 11:41 AM ^
Initially I laughed my ass off! He looked freakish and nuts, and I laughed; re-watched it and cried with laughter. I thought Erin's responses were great too. I got jumped on when I posted that opinion.
No, I don't know him. No, I don't watch Seattle football regularly. It was just my honest reaction. I have heard him speak on interviews. When I'd heard him in the past, I thought he sounded thoughtful enough and I remember that he and Harbaugh have some history. So, I took it at that moment that he was amped after a big play, and that there was some trash talking history.
Obviously, that is not behavior I want my kids to model, and I don't know if he is a thug or a good guy who talks trash--It was just initially funny. If it were me, or someone I cared about, I would be mortified at that behavior. I also thought Erin Andrews was awesome with the "who is talking about you." I'm fairly certain she's seen worse from football players.
That opinion is not popular, but it was just my initial reaction.
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January 20th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
He patted him on the butt then offered his hand. Crabtree pushed him in the face and that's when he lost his mind. He didn't handle the interview well, but I'm surprised that no one is calling out Crabtree for his behavior.
January 20th, 2014 at 12:06 PM ^
January 20th, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
Jabril Peppers more closely emulate Charles Woodson, both on and off the field, than Richard Sherman.
January 20th, 2014 at 1:52 PM ^
Maybe we can bring Cissoko back.
January 20th, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
I don't like Sherman the more I hear him talk, however I don't think he did anything that he should be in any sort of trouble for. And the thug talk I believe is coming from how he sounded not actually what he said.
edit: Who else heard Kaepernick's post game interview ? He said a few times in referance to the last play that he "saw the matchup and loved it" basically saying he will take Crabtree against Sherman any day. Found that amusing. Hopefully Sherman hears about that !
January 20th, 2014 at 11:57 AM ^
He made an ass of himself and looked like a classless egomaniac. i bet Stanford fans cringed when he made those comments. This is not the image anyone would want. He may be a good player, but i bet a lot of fans who had no favorites in the SB will now root heavily for the Broncos.
Peyton Manning is also a great player but just exactly the opposite of Sherman.
Sherman remined me of Dennis Rodman. Rodman was a great basketball player at one time but everyone hated him and the pistons because of the same kind of egomaniac out of control behavior.
I hope he gets his A-- beat by Peyton.
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