Over the weekend, Richard Sherman lit up the internet with a sideline interview completed after he helped the Seattle Seahawks clinch their spot in the Super Bowl. “Well, I’m the best corner in the game,” he declared. “When you try me with a sorry receiver like [San Francisco 49er Michael] Crabtree, that’s the result you’re going to get. Don’t you ever talk about me!”
Deadspin collected the predictable, dispiriting assemblage of racist tweets from those who’d watched the Seahawks game; a black man shouting on television will always be scary to some. But what was notable, here, was what Sherman didn’t do. He didn’t curse, or threaten anyone with anything except a loss, in the future. He seemed to be speaking from a prepared speech in defense of his own talents against anyone who’d challenge them. Isn’t this exactly what football is about?
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Richard Sherman is honest about his competitiveness and football’s violent stakes
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