Sherman answers questions about strippers

[Maynard]

Of all the inane questions asked on media day, this one, which attempted to pin the sins of all strip-club loving athletes upon Richard Sherman, won the prize. And of all the answers to those inane questions, Sherman’s deflection was tops, second only to the actual deflection he made to help his Seattle Seahawks make the Super Bowl.

Question: “As far as money is concerned, all of you football guys has gone into the strip clubs and are raining [money] down on the strippers. I think that’s a bad example for our young ladies. How can we stop that. I think it’s a bad example that we setting for our young girls that they need to be strippers. How do we deal with that issue?”

Sherman: “Well, I’ve never gone into a strip club and thrown money, so I couldn’t tell you. I guess trying to understand that there are other avenues, there are other ways you can make money, that women can do anything they want in this world. You can go out there and be a CEO of a company. Like I said before, the same can be said for kids in the inner city — the ceiling is limitless and don’t limit yourself to those possibilities and those circumstances.”

If there are still any people out there confused as to what Richard Sherman’s about, that answer should do the trick. Bluster and faux apologies aside, he’s a man who emerged from a tough environment with the help of family, education and hard work. He wants others to follow his example.

But the idea that Sherman has to give an answer to a question like that is everything that’s wrong with media day. Marshawn Lynch had the right idea.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/richard-sherman-strip-clubs-media-day-super-bowl/

what a idiotic question. i thought his rant was classless, but after all the retarded backlash i will be rooting for him on sunday.

[red33]

why da fuck is tht question asked?

racial undertones here?

[NAHSTE]

CLOWN TIME IS OVER.

Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is the king of New York.

Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman is a clown in the Super Bowl hype machine.

Clown time is over.

Hate to break this to you, Mr. Sherman. But the Broncos are laughing at you.

"Sherman, Sherman, Sherman," said Denver defensive lineman Jeremy Mincey, stealing a movie line from "The Nutty Professor."

Manning leads by example and can intimidate teammates without raising his voice. His MVP awards do the talking.

"I've been nervous around him since I met him. And I'm still nervous. I don't want to mess up," Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas said Monday.

Peyton Manning Face is the most famous frown in football, and it's a look worth 1,000 hollow words from Sherman. Smack talk makes for a good sound bite. But it doesn't win football games.

"When you were a kid, you had a neighbor who always wanted to play you outside in the street," Broncos tight end Julius Thomas said. "And if you let him beat you, he was going to keep on talking. He was going to keep on ringing that doorbell, saying: 'Come on, give me more.' You can't be focused on what somebody is saying to you. We have so much to focus on (during the Super Bowl), words will be the last thing."

At this Super Bowl, somebody has to be the adult here. We know it's not Sherman. He's amusing. He's harmless.

But do not be fooled by his Stanford diploma. Is Sherman brilliant? Please. Anybody with a handful of seeds can attract pigeons to a park bench in New York City. Sherman knows all he has to do at the Super Bowl is stand in front of a microphone, and the lazy, bloated media will be eating out of his hand.

After a brilliant play — swatting away a pass in the end zone intended for San Francisco receiver Michael Crabtree — that punched the Seahawks' ticket to the Super Bowl, Sherman went out of his way to show up Crabtree on the field and disrespect him during a television interview. Popping a testosterone gasket certainly did not make Sherman a thug, but can we also pardon America for wondering if a sore winner might be wise to lose a little of his anger?

Trying to milk the Super Bowl fortnight out of his 15 seconds of infamy, Sherman cribbed all the good lines from a classic unapologetic apology. After briefly taking responsibility for his words, Sherman went to diversionary tactics quicker than he jumps a pass route to make an interception. He suggested anybody who found his tirade in poor taste might be a racist, and added hockey players have far worse anger management issues. When backed in a corner by your own stupidity, sometimes moral equivalence is the only way out.

While Sherman trashed Crabtree, he's smart enough to know those bullying tactics won't faze Manning. "You can't get in Peyton's head," Sherman recently joked. "If you get in his head, you'll get lost."

After leading Denver with 1,480 receiving yards and being selected to the Pro Bowl for the second straight year, Thomas doesn't have to scream at America how great he is.

"It's not about being boasty and making sure everybody knows you make a play. It's about trying to help your team," said Thomas, who won't talk trash with Sherman.

"I think it's pointless," he said.

In January, the streets of New York can be colder than the devil's home, frozen over. The championship game will be played at a truck stop in New Jersey. But, in a lot of ways, the Big Apple is the perfect spot for Super Bowl hype. It's as subtle as a cab horn honking. Hurry up and wait for something to happen. Hey, we're all in a hurry to get a story here, lady.

This week, the hype is all about Manning vs. Sideshow Sherman.

And it's no contest.

Even in these made-you-look times, substance beats style. Every time. Over the din of the Super Bowl hype machine, here's what Sherman can learn from Manning:

When you're league MVP, there's no need to be boasty.

Read more: Kiszla: Broncos' Manning can teach Seahawks' Sherman a lot - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci_...#ixzz2rkOmZQvO

[Warner2BruceTD]

Sherman admitted he was wrong for the rant a number of reasons and apologized for it. Seemed sincere to me. That's all you can ask from a man.

To me that's that. We knew it would be overplayed, but fuck this shit is boring now.

[NAHSTE]

Sherman admitted he was wrong for the rant a number of reasons and apologized for it. Seemed sincere to me. That's all you can ask from a man.

To me that's that. We knew it would be overplayed, but fuck this shit is boring now.

You expected anything less? When has a relatively minor story not been run into the ground in the 2 weeks leading up to the Super Bowl?

[Warner2BruceTD]

You expected anything less? When has a relatively minor story not been run into the ground in the 2 weeks leading up to the Super Bowl?

I know,I know.

But now we have goofy narratives popping up all over the place, like that goofy Maynard thread that somehow places blame on Andrews.

[Houston]

Can VSN just have a NFL blackout until the superbowl?

[wr50l]

The amount of media gibberish this week every year is overwhelming. It's nearly impossible to avoid it even if you try. Having said that if I have to put up with it at least they can do something for me. Media, please keep stoking the fires and keep painting the Broncos as the good guys. Joe Public, please keep eating all this up. I want 3.5 points for being on the bad guys side.

[BigBucs]

why da fuck is tht question asked?

racial undertones here?

Sherman admitted he was wrong for the rant a number of reasons and apologized for it. Seemed sincere to me. That's all you can ask from a man.

To me that's that. We knew it would be overplayed, but fuck this shit is boring now.