OT- Thoughts on Richard Sherman interview

I wasn't referencing displays. I referenced pride. Manning's play...is geared toward getting into a defense's head. He's surely prideful about that. Sherman's play is geared toward getting into a receiver and quarterback's head. You can't forget about manning, because the ball touches his hands on every offensive play, and the commentator says his name on...every...offensive...play. "manning drops back to pass." "manning hands off to whoever." Sherman can disappear in a game by shutting down his half of the field. The trash talk lets everybody know that he's out there. "the commentators haven't said my name because you're not good enough to get them to point the cameras this way."

I think we all have flawed personalities, whether we talk big or work in your profession or talk small and work in my profession. Our personalities are flawed depending upon the personalities with which we connect. People are strange, you know. Some are Sherman and some are Tim fuckin' Tebow. What can you do about it? Sherman didn't disrespect anybody, except the person he wanted to disrespect. His pride was obviously disrespected by Crabtree at some point and the equal and opposite reaction was what we saw during the interview. It's not necessarily physics, but it's something like it. Let me change the context a bit. Back in the day, before football and microphones, there was a certain cash crop that was picked mostly by a certain people. In the field, the best way to avoid being whipped was to pick more cotton than the next man and make sure the owner knew that you had picked the most. There's a display of pride for you. "this is my bag of cotton, sir! I picked the most!" After slavery, that same display was necessary to get work. "i'm the best out here! I Should get the job!" Closed mouths don't get fed is the adage. So from the beginning of Sherman's people's time in America, this culture of displaying pride outwardly has been churning away. Some people thrive without the outward display. Other people, like Sherman, t.o., Muhammad Ali, Floyd mayweather, and a long, long list of others still continue the culture that came from their ancestors' attempts to not be punished for not performing. I'm surprised that nobody ever questioned why American black athletes and black athletes in the western hemisphere are so much more in-your-face as opposed to their counterparts in the eastern hemisphere. Different cultural histories. The ones who choose to display their pridefulness like many of us do over here are typically emulating what they've seen. The same thing that makes Sherman Sherman made the fab 5 the fab 5 instead of just another college basketball team playing in the early 90s. And it's funny how people began calling Sherman an ape when they responded to the interview. I've never seen a prideful gorilla or one with an opinion about another gorilla. More than that, I've never seen a gorilla's reaction, on camera, to getting his feelings hurt, which is basically what we saw. Sherman had his feelings hurt and got some getback.