to be honest, this whole thing has very little to do with Richard Sherman being black. Johnny manziel would be subjected to the same criticism.

From Deadspin archives, circa 1975:

If he's so against the word "thug", he should have refused use of it in his headphones commercial.

Maybe, just maybe, Richard Sherman IS an asshole.

Yep, after reading Gawker and its sub sites for many years, this is the last day I will spend here. The race baiting in this article is horrible, and your taunting of this poor lady by trying to discredit her/ruin her job is fucking deplorable. And I say this as a black man. Go fuck yourself, hack.

Yeah, I think the first post, the one about the tweets, got the whole think succinctly correct in its heading: some dumb people said some stupid, racist shit about Richard Sherman. That is 100% true. But this notion that "we" all said negative shit about Sherman because he's "talented, arrogant, and black" is just…

Notice in their own coverage, Deadspin didn't say Sherman "had strong words for Crabtree in interview" or Sherman "goes off on Crabtree post-game one camera". No, Deadspin chose Sherman "goes nuts on Erin Andrews." Now, tell me how taking a fair amount of inferential leeway with Knapp's tweet is more defensible than,…

yeah...so you're directly implying that Knapp's tweet was the result of her fear of Sherman not acting in what should be his 'place' when it had absolutely nothing to do with that. but she's not black, so i guess you can just imply that? take her tweet down. how irresponsible.

...except for Marshawn Lynch. I can't be angry at Beast Mode. He's just too much fun to watch. Plus, I like Skittles — so there's that, I suppose.

Idk, maybe the whole salutatorian of his high school class thing. Stanford doesn't hurt.

I dislike Kanye West because he is a middle-class suburbanite pretending he is from the streets. I dislike Cam Newton because he is a smooth, bullshit artist. I fucking love Richard Sherman. He was on an endorphin high after just making a game-saving play that sent his team to the Super Bowl.

Talk about fitting events into a preexisting narrative.

To many it comes down to arrogance, poor sportsmanship and selfishness.

Deadspin used to be this awesome mens lifestyle website where you could go and laugh at your favorite athlete getting wasted or sending out a dick, see some cool highlights or something funny from last nights games ESPN would would be too prudish to show, or see some cool graphics or other statistical anomolies. Now I…

“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
― Walter Payton

that is all.

Raise your hand if you KNEW this article was coming the minute Sherman spoke to Andrews.

Greg Howard does not get it in the slightest. The thing that rubbed people the wrong was is the "me-first" mentality of his little tirade. Listen to Peyton Manning after a big game.. Remember, this is a guy with a far more decorated career.. He NEVER takes credit for anything. And since everything immediately has to…

Who's this "we" you speak of? Weird. Somebody must of hacked my Twitter, because I didn't tweet out anything about Richard Sherman last night.

I have always said that those who play the race card when there is no card to play are the racists themselves. This is one example.

Oh, and Barry Bonds at his "peak" was a juiced up, lying, arrogant, piece of shit that even his teammates hated with a burning passion. Not sure what that had to do with him being black. Of course, this is Gawker so the sun coming up today probably has something to do someone being black

Yeah, let's write about 10,000 more of these articles. Sherman is a fucking asshole like about 75% of the NFL. That's about the end of that story