People are mad at Sherman for being honest less than 5 minutes after making the biggest play of his life. As Peter King wrote, that's why there is a cooling off period after games, because players are fired up. He did not swear, and he only talked about on field stuff.
People on this very board who hate what Sherman is about spent years cheering for guys like Larry Bird and Kevin Garnett who did the exact same sorts of things. How many of you were loving it when Reggie Miller did a far worse version of this to Spike Lee and the MSG fans?
Richard Sherman is such a selfish human being that he is constantly going back to his high school in Compton, and others in the area, which for those outside of the states is one of the worst areas in the country, and giving speeches to the kids about how you can accomplish your goals if you stay positive and work hard.
From the LA Times: But there's another side to him. It's not uncommon, for instance, for Sherman to buy to-go dinners at a restaurant, then distribute them to the homeless. Through a Seattle charity last month, he "adopted" an impoverished local family, paying for their Christmas dinner and buying all the presents under their tree.
From a different article I found: Then there was the decision to attend Stanford University, rather than USC. Sherman wanted to prove that a kid from Compton could not only get into the prestigious institution but also graduate and play football. Having a 4.2 grade point average and a 1,400 test score didn’t hurt. But part of that process involved writing an essay. Sherman opted for his experience with the mentally and physically disabled kids his mother works with through California Social Services.
“In high school, we had to do 100 community-service hours. I did all mine there,” he said. “I watched one kid, he was like 26, but he had the mental capacity of a 9 year old. He looked like a grown man, but talked like a child. Some people can’t get better. Some people will always be 9 years old. And some people can get better. I watched him get better. I helped him get better.
“That’s what I wrote about in my Stanford essay.”
“I want these kids to know that there’s a big world out there and that goals can be achieved and it really doesn’t matter where you come from or what situation you started from,” Sherman said. “Here, you start from a city where nobody really gives you a chance. Everybody goes for the statistics – this amount of people go to jail or are murdered.
“People don’t try to pull out positives. I’m trying to show them there are positive sides to the city. There are some building blocks here. There’s a lot more to it. There’s a lot more to them than they even know. And I want them to know they can achieve anything they put their mind to.”
And Sherman didn’t limit his message to the football players or even athletes.
“The message transcends sports. It transcends even education,” he said. “Because they can be an artist if they want to. They go out and come up with some biomolecular discovery. Just change the world. That’s really what my message was.”
As Sherman’s whirlwind day was winding down, SWAG founder and president Romel Tune was the one who said it all.
“This is what NFL players should be doing,” he said. “They should be giving back.”
WHAT A STUPID SELFISH PRICK!
It was five minutes after the biggest play of his life. He was excited. He didn't swear, and he spoke 100% truth.
Suspend Sherman for the 1st quarter? Goodness what a stupid suggestion. Why? Because he is the best in the league at what he does, and he knows it? Deion was far worse, Darrelle Revis was the same way but phony once the cameras were on.
Grow up you adults. Just because you wouldn't have said it that way doesn't make Richard Sherman a bad guy.
Go Seahawks
