Richard Sherman just changed my view of Seattle

Post Hole Digger wrote:

btw, Rojo, you do know that the Adderall thing is a joke, right? Under NFL policy they don't have to release what they were suspended for. So they leak that it was Adderall, makes them look better. But after so many it's become a running joke ridiculed by many like Bill Simmons. It's the equivalent of celebrities being hospitalized for "exhaustion".

Didn't know that. I'll have to talk to David Epstein about that see if he's got the scoop.

Thanks.

I'm guessing Sherman won't be invited back to Stanford as a commencement speaker.

Driving this morning, all I heard on sports radio was Richard Sherman talk.

The hosts took issue with Sherman having the same type interview on the podium and in the lockerroom after words.

I did think Roid Rage but was familiar with the Sherman Skip Bayless interview so I discounted it. It's part of Sherman's personality or his bit.

The NFL drug policy is a joke. I was thinking of doing a story on the Seahawks and "What if the NFL had Olympic style drug testing?"

I have to laugh to everyone who says, "Wait until Peyton torches him" in the Super Bowl. Sherman is regarded as the best corner in the league.

I really don't like Peyton Manning and like rooting for underdogs. I couldn't stand the Seahawks so I was in a quandary for who to root for the Super Bowl. Now with everyone piling on the Seahawks I think that makes it easy.

this just reinforces my

1) loathing of pro ball sports

2) loathing of athletic scholarships. Some 1st gen korean kid didn't get to go to Stanford so that guy could play a sport. WTF.

PTI wrote:

yawner wrote:

Yawn.

It's the NFL. Is there any NFL team that doesn't have a thug or two?

I don't follow the NFL closely, but off the top of my head, lets see:

Ray Lewis most likely committed murder.

Aaron Hernandez did.

Michael Vick was breeding pit bulls for fighting.

Some Dolphin player got kicked off his own team for hazing his own teammates so badly.

Ray Carruth, Sebastian Janikowski, and that fat overpaid lineman for the Redskins.

Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty...

...That would be AFTER he committed the murder.

Orientals and indians are racially banned from top 10 privately operated schools in the USA. Limiting quotas: MIT 30%, Caltech 20%, Penn 20%, USC 30%, Yale 20%, Stanford 20%, Harvard 20%,,,,,,,,,,,,

agip wrote:

this just reinforces my

1) loathing of pro ball sports

2) loathing of athletic scholarships. Some 1st gen korean kid didn't get to go to Stanford so that guy could play a sport. WTF.

1) is highly questionable but 2) is spot on.

rojo wrote:

Post Hole Digger wrote:

btw, Rojo, you do know that the Adderall thing is a joke, right? Under NFL policy they don't have to release what they were suspended for. So they leak that it was Adderall, makes them look better. But after so many it's become a running joke ridiculed by many like Bill Simmons. It's the equivalent of celebrities being hospitalized for "exhaustion".

Didn't know that. I'll have to talk to David Epstein about that see if he's got the scoop.

Thanks.

Bill Simmons had a great point in his column this week:

Q: Do you realize Michael Crabtree tore his Achilles on May 22nd 2013, and played a major role in an NFL playoff game on Jan 12 2014? That’s less than eight months! This yet again confirms my theory that the NFL runs sports, and produced the A-Rod suspension announcement and 60 Minutes piece strategically so people wouldn’t bring up Crabtree’s miraculous recovery.

—Matt Brady, Louisville

SG: This should be a daily ESPN2 afternoon show: Conspiracy Talk! Look, I wrote approximately 20,000 words about it last February: I don’t trust the words “miraculous recovery” with professional sports. Not after everything we witnessed these last 20 years. In 2012, Terrell Suggs returned within FIVE MONTHS of tearing his Achilles, chopping the expected recovery time in more than half. Did you think that was miraculous? Ridiculous? Hilarious? Specious? Pick a word that ends with “ous” — it probably fits.

It’s just funny that the NFL makes such a big deal about head-hunting and concussion safety, yet their players continue to bend all reasonable expectations of recovery time from major injuries as bystanders use words like “amazing” and “baffling.” You know what was amazing? Jim Abbott pitching with one f__king hand. That was amazing. Someone chopping the time of a torn Achilles recovery in half — that’s not amazing. That’s something else.

But let’s keep sticking our heads in the sand with the current guys, then spending our outrage on retired baseball players trying to get into Cooperstown — while moaning How could we not have known? and all the other baloney from last week. You know, because God forbid some enterprising creatine guzzler affected the most broken institution in sports. Instead of caring about whether Mike Piazza’s back pimples should prevent him from getting a bronze plaque, shouldn’t we care about our current athletes (a) bending all realistic expectations of how a human body recovers from a traumatic injury, and (b) how they happen to be doing said bending?; and (c) in the case of football, bulking up to impossible sizes/speeds to cause even more of these injuries (that lead to more miraculous comebacks). Just so we know for sure that it’s happening on the level? Why don’t we care more? Why doesn’t every sport use biological passports? Why don’t they test more? Why do the Olympics seem to care more than every professional league combined?

True story: When Lindsey Vonn wrecked her knee in a ski accident last February, just a few days after I wrote that PEDs column, a sports industry friend emailed me (I’m paraphrasing), Here you go … you wanted to see how a normal athlete could recover from a severe injury while being monitored under strict Olympic drug-testing rules. You got your wish. Vonn returned to the slopes in September even though her recovering knee never felt right. She thought it felt unstable. A little wobbly, even. She kept pushing it … and in November, she crashed and tore her ACL. So long, Olympics. My friend emailed me shortly after: “Lindsey had the best resources in the world and couldn’t come back within a year. Turns our your theory was spot-on. At least in this case.” I don’t know if that’s right or wrong — we’re talking about a one-person sample size. But had that February knee injury happened to any player on any of this weekend’s football teams, would they be “recovered” and playing this weekend? You tell me.

deer Sherman & Seahawks wrote:

"Play the game, play it hard, and let that speak for itself." - Jim Brown

"And throw your wife out if a window"

Recognizer of Brilliance wrote:

agip wrote:

this just reinforces my

1) loathing of pro ball sports

2) loathing of athletic scholarships. Some 1st gen korean kid didn't get to go to Stanford so that guy could play a sport. WTF.

1) is highly questionable but 2) is spot on.

1) is spot on too. All of you sheep watching these people throw balls and hurt each other because the NFL tells you to. What a joke. I will stick to pro curling.

i think everyone should be required to watch the richard sherman press conference. he speaks for 12 minutes and shows he's a smart dude who is getting everyone's goat. and i really believe him that crabtree is mediocre.

i am now rooting for the seahawks and hope he gets 2 picks against manning.

http://www.seahawks.com/videos-photos/videos/Richard-Sherman-NFC-Championship-Press-Conferece/d9b899b0-ba32-48a4-a32f-bed06fde3cbb

I agree. He's an intelligent well spoken young man. There's a great photo of him extending his hand to Crabtree, who is pushing him the face.

Go Seahawks!

This is my favorite Richard Sherman moment.

Williams: Watch your mouth when . . .

Sherman: "Hey whatcha gonna do"

Williams: "I'ma punch you in your [expletive] mouth"

Sherman: "Well then do it then boy"

BAM!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4ViIwy7KA

bmcpool strikes back wrote:

i think everyone should be required to watch the richard sherman press conference. he speaks for 12 minutes and shows he's a smart dude who is getting everyone's goat. and i really believe him that crabtree is mediocre.

Big friggin deal if crabtree is mediocre or if crabtree had trash talked him. Sherman did the choke gesture with both hands after that play and was flagged for unsportsmanshiplike conduct. And then bad mouthed crabtree on national tv. And then defends his actions and words?

Fwiw, my local team was already out of the playoffs. Seahawks were my nfc team all the way. Not now.

capitol hill guy wrote:

One guy makes you judge a city? I think I represent the average *in town* Seattle person and a) I had no idea who that guy was b) I had to google his name so I could know who you're talking about c) in googling, I found out that our sportsball team lost. That's how actual Seattle people are. The people who go to the team sports things are from the east side or Renton, or wherever.

You made me dislike Seattle more than Sherman did.

What a douchey sounding town.

C'mon Mang wrote:

....... every team that has ever lost has been bitter and every team that has ever won has gloated. .....

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When you generalize about a whole team or city it makes you seem intolerant and is completely unfair.

hahaha. Great post Einstein.

Willam Sonoma wrote:

I agree. He's an intelligent well spoken young man. There's a great photo of him extending his hand to Crabtree, who is pushing him the face.

Go Seahawks!

What a joke. I don't blame Crabtree at all. Sherman is a classless punk - acting like a 5 year old with his "choking" symbol. Hope the Broncos destroy the Seahawks. Such a shame someone with SO much class as Russell Wilson is stuck with people like Carroll and Sherman. Also funny how the liberal, "progressive" people in Seattle are silent about their quarterback being a vocal Christian. Hypocrites.

what a joke wrote:

What a joke. I don't blame Crabtree at all.

You really think Crabtree didn't start it?

this thread goes to show how little Letsrun knows about football

Sherman is arguably the best at his position in all of football

IMO, if you can walk the walk then you can talk the talk, which Sherman has done

The guy is also not a complete idiot, I have watched some other interviews and read some columns by him. Sherman is just an extremely vocal and often arrogant dude.