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November 26, 2014
Richard Sherman uses cardboard cutout to send NFL a message: The ever-eloquent Richard Sherman took a shot at the NFL on Tuesday, and did so in a way that garnered laughs from all the media members in the room.
I'm having trouble connecting
It is Sherman that is having trouble connecting his string of random rants into anything sensible or entertaining.
posted by cixelsyd at 10:51 AM on November 26, 2014
Sherman and his guys better get back in their meetings and get some game plan on. If they were in the AFC North, they'd be just another 7-4 team.
Sherman and Baldwin didn't leave any room for questions. I'd ask them how did Houdini clear waivers and make the Rams punt return unit.
posted by beaverboard at 02:15 PM on November 26, 2014
That was fun, but I'm having trouble connecting the NFL rule about players wearing or mentioning outside sponsorships near game time with the rule about players talking to the media.
Fining Lynch $100,000 over a disagreement about press availability is pretty harsh.
I see it as a criticism of NFL hypocrisy. I think Sherman also points out that the NFL wants the players talking to the media but only on their own terms. Certainly not as far as having players do interviews for the sole purpose to endorse products but the point of the press conference was to be over the top.
I thought it was a very well thought out and pointed critique of the NFL. Doug Baldwin crouching behind a Subway cardboard cutout of himself was brilliant.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 06:37 PM on November 26, 2014
There's nothing hypocritical about an entertainment business dictating how its employees endorse products on company time *and* having rules for how employees interact with the media on company time. Both rules are consistent with each other.
Sherman can do what he wants when he's not at work and endorse anything he likes. But his work time is owned by the Seahawks.
Calvin Johnson has a deal with Zaxby's. There's a big cutout of him in the restaurants, but the deal must be without NFL participation because his uniform is generic.
If Johnson wanted to use post-game media time to talk about the delicious Game Day Fillet Sandwich, would anyone think it was unfair of the NFL to tell him he couldn't?
posted by rcade at 08:38 PM on November 26, 2014
Besides, Bose > Beats any day of the week.
There's a guy on my team at work that was so pumped about getting a pair of Beats, he was having all of us check them out. Like a dick, I swapped out the Beats with my Klipsch headphones and he got very sad, especially since he paid more for his headphones.
posted by NoMich at 09:50 PM on November 26, 2014
Sherman is getting paid millions per year because the NFL is successful and not because mankind has elevated him to being the voice of the people.
Grow the fuck up and abide by your employer's wishes or find a job elsewhere like the rest of us.
With emphasis on elsewhere.
posted by cixelsyd at 09:55 PM on November 26, 2014
Ken would never be seen wearing Beats. But Barbie would. Ill advised bass happy cans. The cranial equivalent of putting a pair of subs in a Datsun B-210 that's still running on its original shocks.
posted by beaverboard at 10:13 PM on November 26, 2014
I'm stuck in the 1980s perception that big earphones look like goofy earmuffs and cool people all use earbuds.
posted by rcade at 11:06 PM on November 26, 2014
Back in the day, you had to do sets of shrugs and flexes if you wanted your neck to be able to support both your head AND a set of Koss Pro 4AA phones.
No reason why a pair of those things couldn't keep a skiff firmly moored in a sheltered harbor.
posted by beaverboard at 12:26 AM on November 27, 2014
Fining Lynch $100,000 over a disagreement about press availability is pretty harsh.
In no way am I defending the NFL but the report is a little misleading: I believe Lynch was fined $50,000 but also had to pay the $50,000 fine the NFL suspended last year during Super Bowl media week.
Grow the fuck up and abide by your employer's wishes
Hope you didn't post that on company time.
posted by yerfatma at 09:57 AM on November 29, 2014
Hope you didn't post that on company time.
Ha! What his employer hasn't told him not to do won't hurt him.
posted by rcade at 01:27 PM on November 29, 2014
That was fun, but I'm having trouble connecting the NFL rule about players wearing or mentioning outside sponsorships near game time with the rule about players talking to the media.
Fining Lynch $100,000 over a disagreement about press availability is pretty harsh.