Sherman on ESPN first take. 12:30

[Sac]

I know what I'm watching as soon as I get home.

 

[HawksFTW]

^I tend to agree with kag0331, but I am WAAY WAAY WAAY in the minority around here. Sherm is digging a hole. I wish he'd play it cool. Stay off these damn shows. Quit being an attention whore. Play football. I don't see what good comes of all this ME ME ME stuff. He doesn't need it. Of course, most people around here seem to care a great deal about getting the media's attention and approval so they love it. It's already grown stale to me. I thought the push-up contest was pretty badass, though.

Irony.

 

[drdiags]

Another side of Sherman that I respect because of the message it provides to others

[youtube]e6Qb4EvJqGs[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e6Qb4EvJqGs


And the accompanying story written by LA Times Farmer

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sport...d-sherman-verbum-dei-20130307,0,3189207.story

 

[Smelly McUgly]

^I tend to agree with kag0331, but I am WAAY WAAY WAAY in the minority around here. Sherm is digging a hole. I wish he'd play it cool. Stay off these damn shows. Quit being an attention whore. Play football. I don't see what good comes of all this ME ME ME stuff. He doesn't need it. Of course, most people around here seem to care a great deal about getting the media's attention and approval so they love it. It's already grown stale to me. I thought the push-up contest was pretty badass, though.

I can't speak for everyone, but I like that Sherman does whatever he needs to do in order to find that extra motivation to make himself better. He might be loud and obnoxious sometimes, but at least he isn't complacent or uninterested (or at least, that is how I look at it).

I don't necessarily crave media attention for the team. Maybe back before tens of fan websites that focus on my favorite team, I would have. At this point, I don't even watch ESPN unless someone posts a video on a fansite like this one.

 

[uncle fester]

It's about time a player called out an 'expert' on tv. Long overdue, actually.

Yes, Sherman could possibly have handled it a little better, (being articulate with a guy whining like that in your ear must be difficult), but the message was there, loud and clear.

 

[Axx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nun5scYroxA

Wow I hate Bayless and love sherm so i had multiple orgasms from this video

 

[pehawk]

^I tend to agree with kag0331, but I am WAAY WAAY WAAY in the minority around here. Sherm is digging a hole. I wish he'd play it cool. Stay off these damn shows. Quit being an attention whore. Play football. I don't see what good comes of all this ME ME ME stuff. He doesn't need it. Of course, most people around here seem to care a great deal about getting the media's attention and approval so they love it. It's already grown stale to me. I thought the push-up contest was pretty badass, though.

Irony.

Okay, thats funny. Not trying to pile on, I try and give props when merited.

 

[SNDavidson]

OK, the more I watch this, the more I LOVE IT. Sherm did not look hurt at all he actually wasn't even trying that hard, he looked a little tired, but other than that he looked pretty chill, its just the way he talks. This interview is awesome, he gave that show no respect and it makes me giddy like a school girl.

 

[SNDavidson]

I love Russell Wilson, I love Earl Thomas, and I love Marshawn Lynch, but I think I just decided to get a Richard Sherman jersey.

 

[SNDavidson]

I like to pretend that Richard played nice on ESPN and NFL Network the last couple months so the network would think he was cool to let on First Take, only so he could get there and rip skip a new one, kind of like Bruce Lee in Game of death, he had to gradually climb the stairs and defeat the lesser hacks to eventually crap on bayless on tv, all for my enjoyment.

 

[Hawken-Dazs]

Well done by Ringworm! I need to get myself a Sherm jersey this week now.

 

[Hawksfanatik]

I like Sherman, he tells it as it is!

:thfight7: :stirthepot:

 

[DohBoy]

I don't know who Chris Chase is, but he seems to like how Sherman handled things:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/20 ... t/1971737/

"Master Troll."

DohBoy

 

[lukerguy]

I am okay with conflict, and this video made me uncomfortable...haha

 

[DohBoy]

From NFL.com:

"Sherman eviscerated Bayless on live airwaves, sending the program down a rolling river of awkwardness ("First Take" co-host Stephen A. Smith might still be sitting in front of a camera with his mouth open)."

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000 ... first-take

A link to some crap website, albeit w/post-interview Sherm tweets:

"Put a national television host in his place, take a nap and go shoot some Zombies. Pretty successful day."

http://97rockonline.com/richard-sherman ... -than-you/

Sando blog, w/forty-whiner fans displaying diarrhea of the mouth in the "comments" section:

"The media tour turned into a media beatdown..."

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/ ... first-take

 

[McGruff]

I like Sherman, but didn't like this interaction at all.

 

[candybars]

I don't know who Chris Chase is, but he seems to like how Sherman handled things:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/20 ... t/1971737/

"Master Troll."

DohBoy

Broats.

 

[NYCoug]

Wooooooo!!!!

I absolutely LOVE this! Skip Bayless, along with too many others to even count, is the kind of hack that's helped set the sports journalism industry back eons. Seeing ANYONE, especially one of my favorite Seahawks put Bayless in his place is a beautiful sight to me. Sherm tells it like it is and some people just can't handle that.

No one denies Ali's greatness despite the amount of trash he talked. If Sherman keeps his level of play up over his career, which I'm sure he will, people will look back at his greatness fondly. Heck, they'll probably even look back at his trash talking fondly the way they do with Ali now.

And it's funny how the sports media conveniently forgets about all the community service Sherman does. Messes with the image they're trying to promote of him being a punk. Funny how no one even remembers to mention that Sherman only RESPONDS to, and FINISHES, trash talk.

I'm going to watch this every morning when I wake up to remind myself that Richard Sherman, in his 24 years of life, is better at life than Skip Bayless. One of the greatest quotes of all-time from an athlete to a "journalist."

 

[Seattle_Stunna_MD]

FINISH HIM! Sherm crushed him at the end. Thoroughly enjoyed that x1000.

 

[Seahawk Sailor]

Much lulz. Good on Sherman. Funny to see everyone here ragging on him for going overboard when most of us would fold like a cheap suit or go all Scanners head explodey if we tried to defend ourselves against that jackwagon.