Okay, I have avoided putting anymore shine on this punk, but I've had enough. I am sick and tired of all the Seahawk fans putting that disrespectful punk, Richard Sherman, on a pedestal! And I don't just mean disrespectful to Crabtree...I mean his own team! He makes a great play - which, at the end of the day, all he did was tip the ball to his teammate, Malcolm Smith. If Smith didn't make that INT, it would still be 49ers' ball. But I digress, he makes a great play and proceeds to make a giant spectacle of himself, making the game about some “feud” he’s had with Crabtree since last April! He totally takes the attention of winning the game from his team and makes it all about him and some made up drama! I would be embarrassed if he represented anything I believed in - but not the Seahawk fans! They just adore him, don’t they?
Monday, after the NFC Championship Game, Sherman comes out with an article, putting his Stanford communications degree to work, and “sheds light” on why he acted like a fool. He thinks he can use flowery words to justify acting like a crazed maniac? Well, I have to give him credit. He is a smart guy - smart enough to know that, YES, he can act like a buffoon, and smooth it over with his eloquent words. Because, you see, it turns out, there are lot of brainless zombies that just takes everything he says to be a fact without thinking that there is another side to this bizarre story. Weren’t we taught growing up that we shouldn’t believe everything we read? This is prime example of why - you have a smart guy manipulating you into believing the lies coming out of his mouth! Sherman knows he can run his mouth because he can go to his computer at the end of the night and eloquently put into words what “happened” and put his twist into it. He can say whatever he wants and because he is well spoken, people just take it in as a fact.
Well, here’s another article for you all to read...another point of view of the events at that charity event, from someone who is not related personally or professionally to either athlete. I am not saying this article is a fact, only pointing out that there is more than one side to every story and we can’t all just use Sherman’s account of the event as the facts. If anything, he is the worst witness to the event because he is so emotionally tied to it, and he has clearly demonstrated he can’t keep his cool enough to think with a level head (sounds like a certain fan base...no wonder they all act justified in their actions).
With all that being said, let’s put something into perspective quickly:
How many people can you name that Crabtree has beef with? ...I can’t think of anyone outside of Sherman...
How many people can you name that Sherman has beef with? Michael Crabtree (49ers), Skip Bayless (ESPN commentator), Jim Harbaugh (49ers), Tom Brady (Patriots), Trent Williams (Redskins), Roddy White (Falcons), Darrelle Revis (Buccaneers), Joe Haden (Browns), and maybe his own shadow too.
With this side to side comparison of drama, who has set himself up to look like the troublemaker? Add his “debate” on ESPN against Skip Bayless to his maniacal outburst after the NFC Championship Game, and it is going to be pretty hard to believe that someone who doesn’t surround himself with drama (Crabtree) is now all of sudden picking on someone who was “just trying to shake his hand at a charity event.”
The truth of the matter is, Sherman has built his character to be a problematic young man who likes to instigate problems out of nothing and lies pathologically. He acts unprofessionally and then glosses over it with some beautifully written article that recounts events that do not match the film. Case in point, him “congratulating Harbaugh” after the Seahawks’ victory over the 49ers in week 2 this season. He recounts it as him trying to congratulate Harbaugh after the game and patting his butt, but he gets snubbed. If you actually look at the footage, you see Harbaugh walking off field, Sherman runs up behind him, slaps his butt and runs off as Harbaugh is turning around. Harbaugh didn’t even have a chance to snub him because he had no idea who smacked his butt to begin with...yet, all the Seahawk fans latch onto Sherman’s words that he was snubbed. Well, buddy...Harbaugh DID snub you...not in that game, but when he didn’t draft you for the 49ers, despite the higher ups telling him to.
While most players do their fair share of trash talking and on the receiving end of trash talking, Sherman has shown that he takes it personally, and goes crazy after everything is said and done. Most players just brush it off and move on because that’s the game...onto the next thing. But, clearly, Sherman is the type to hold onto something from nine months ago and make a spectacle of himself over it. And, clearly, he can dish it out, but he can’t take it himself.
So, if you couldn’t tell...I cannot stand Richard Sherman. I could almost respect him for being a good player, if he doesn’t let his big mouth and piss-poor unprofessional attitude ruin his actual career achievements. In a few years, his reputation for being a loud-mouth embarrassment will outshine his talents and what team would spend money on someone who will make them look trashy? Maybe the Seahawks will? With a cheater at the helm in Pete Carroll, I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t condone this kind of embarrassing behavior!
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