2014 NFL Season Thread

[Harmening]

People will see the Bengals-Steelers score and think it was a blowout. Wasn't the case. The Bengals were leading in the fourth quarter before an Andy Dalton fumble and the team fell apart. 25 unanswered points to Pittsburgh after that, but more than 3 quarters of the game were in Bengals' control.

I hate sports. Sports are never fun.

You should start a blog called 'Sports hate me', cause I'm right there with ya. Ugh.

Are you being facetious? Because I had a blog that was called that. The gimmick of always writing about how terrible my teams are got tired. That, and I got a real job so writing essays for no money became less fun with less free time.

I wrote it for about a year in 2010 and 2011 and the worst part is things haven't gotten any better.

Yeah, I was referring to it. I remember reading it a while back after you posted a link to it. For some reason, after you wrote the 'I hate sports', it reminded me of it.

Bengals are getting on my nerves...

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Yesterday was Russell Wilson's 50th career start, and according to ESPN, his team has held a lead at some point in each of his games. That's incredible.

[IceCap]

I mean, it feels like this is gonna be the final nail in the coffin for the Harbaugh era, an era we didn't think would crash down so soon and so decisively.

I came down on him for benching Alex Smith when Smith did nothing to warrent losing his job besides look out for his long-term health. Seems I've been vindicated, at least to a degree.

Smith continues to do what he has to do in KC. Kaepernick, like so many running QBs in the past, got off to a hot start before fizzling out when the league caught up to him. It just happened quicker the we expected it to this time.

[Unocal]

Richard Sherman is the biggest (bleep) in sports. I hope he never wins anything again.

If Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna have to swallow my AFC East pride and say Go Pats. That's how much the Seahawks, other than Russell Wilson, are a team of unlikeable yapping dudes you want to see someone shut up.

[LAWeaver]

Richard Sherman is the biggest (bleep) in sports. I hope he never wins anything again.

If Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna have to swallow my AFC East pride and say Go Pats. That's how much the Seahawks, other than Russell Wilson, are a team of unlikeable yapping dudes you want to see someone shut up.

If you would take the time and Google some of Seattle's players, you would actually see that some of these players are actually pretty nice. If YOU were an NFL player, playing in a prime-time/big game with the game on the line, would you wimp out and say 'oh boy, I better sit down. These guys are too good' or would you get pumped up, get ready to make a big play? That's what Sherman did. He continues to do so and you can't blame him for feeling good about beating a division foe or strong conference opponent. It's been stated by others that it seems as if you really do hate sports, and I would have to agree. Then again, it's football. Get over it. It's just a game. If you can't realize that this is just a game, then I suggest you find another board to trash with your irritability, because you're stinking up the place with your hatred of one player/team, expecting every player to join hands with one another and sing Kum Ba Yah without complaining.

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[Rockstar Matt]

Richard Sherman is the biggest (bleep) in sports. I hope he never wins anything again.

If Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna have to swallow my AFC East pride and say Go Pats. That's how much the Seahawks, other than Russell Wilson, are a team of unlikeable yapping dudes you want to see someone shut up.

If you actually knew his story, you might have a different opinion. Might being a key word here since you clearly receive no satisfaction from sports.

Sherman, grew up in Compton, CA. It's a very dangerous and violent part of Los Angeles. The kind of place where you'd be a fool to walk around after dark. Gang-infested and crime-ridden. He overcame that, attended Stanford and graduated with a BA. Again, from freaking Standford. He was a late-round draft pick and used that as motivation to become one of the premier cornerbacks in the NFL. Personally, he's one of my favorite players and I wish he was on my team.

Seattle has a lot of players with some amazing stories. For example, they have a fullback who is the first legally deaf NFL player in history.

They're far from unlikable, unless if you root for a rival (like the Niners, Rams and Cardinals).

[FiddySicks]

Richard Sherman is probably one of the biggest douchebags the NFL has ever had. I could care less if he came from a rough area. He's a narcissistic, petty, petulant little child and it totally ruins how fantastic of a football player he is. Don't get me wrong, he's one of the best corners in the game, bar none. But there isn't a single thing about him that I find even remotely endearing. He's a perfect fit for a franchise that has produced some of the most insufferable fans I've ever come across. Honestly, I've always felt like the Seahawks should be a likeable team. They've got a fun little history, I've been an enormous Pete Carroll fan for years, Marshawn Lynch is one of my favorite players of all time, and Seattle itself is probably my favorite city in the world. That being said, Sherman and that awful fanbase completely ruin it for me.

As, I think, oldschoolvikings said a few months ago, this particular version of the Seahawks can go take a long walk off a short pier.

[BBTV]

Richard Sherman is the biggest (bleep) in sports. I hope he never wins anything again.

If Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna have to swallow my AFC East pride and say Go Pats. That's how much the Seahawks, other than Russell Wilson, are a team of unlikeable yapping dudes you want to see someone shut up.

Richard Sherman is exactly what the NFL needs more of. I love that dude, even though he was talking smack on "my" team. He's a great heel - a dude who plays the role of the bad guy, but isn't really a bad guy.

NFL should be about fun - and you need characters to be fun. Nice guys can be fun, but bad guys can be more fun. It's nice to have a bad guy to get behind who isn't really a bad guy.

It's professional football - it's all about entertanment - and characters are entertaining. He brings a little WWE to the NFl and I think it's great.

[TalktoChuck]

Richard Sherman is the biggest (bleep) in sports. I hope he never wins anything again.

If Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna have to swallow my AFC East pride and say Go Pats. That's how much the Seahawks, other than Russell Wilson, are a team of unlikeable yapping dudes you want to see someone shut up.

Richard Sherman is exactly what the NFL needs more of. I love that dude, even though he was talking smack on "my" team. He's a great heel - a dude who plays the role of the bad guy, but isn't really a bad guy.

NFL should be about fun - and you need characters to be fun. Nice guys can be fun, but bad guys can be more fun. It's nice to have a bad guy to get behind who isn't really a bad guy.

It's professional football - it's all about entertanment - and characters are entertaining. He brings a little WWE to the NFl and I think it's great.

I completely agree!

I'd gladly take more people like Sherman over the same old Manning/Brees more boring than grass personalities.

[DS729]

Exactly. The one guy who doesn't have the same-old boring attitude. Sherman is an interesting character/flaming douchebag to have around and adds a little entertainment to the game. I can't blame people for loving/hating him, but his personality and story are very enjoyable to me.

[CS85]

Cam Newton's car flipped. He's injured. No word on the extent.

[OnWis97]

Richard Sherman is the biggest (bleep) in sports. I hope he never wins anything again.

If Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna have to swallow my AFC East pride and say Go Pats. That's how much the Seahawks, other than Russell Wilson, are a team of unlikeable yapping dudes you want to see someone shut up.

Richard Sherman is exactly what the NFL needs more of. I love that dude, even though he was talking smack on "my" team. He's a great heel - a dude who plays the role of the bad guy, but isn't really a bad guy.

NFL should be about fun - and you need characters to be fun. Nice guys can be fun, but bad guys can be more fun. It's nice to have a bad guy to get behind who isn't really a bad guy.

It's professional football - it's all about entertanment - and characters are entertaining. He brings a little WWE to the NFl and I think it's great.

That's kinda where I am. I thought he took it too far (and too much about himself) with the postgame talk about Crabtree, but for the most part he's fun and intelligent and he backs up his talk.

I felt the same way about Chad Johnson until he started to feel that way about himself and became too much of himself. But the early TD celebrations (and I think sending a bottle of Pepto Bismol to a D-Back before a game) were fun.

10 (or 5) years ago, if you'd have told me that the Seahawks would ever be one of the NFL's more hated teams, I'd have laughed at you.

[NJTank]

Richard Sherman is just someone with personality he is very smart and knows how ti rile up an psych out the other team.

[LAWeaver]

Cam Newton's car flipped. He's injured. No word on the extent.

It sounds like it's just a couple of bumps, scrapes, and bruises. He was smiling while being treated after the wreck and didn't want to get on the stretcher, bit he went to the ER anyway. Better safe than sorry I guess. His truck (a nice one, at that) appears to have rolled. I'm 99% certain he was wearing his seatbelt if that's all that's wrong with him.

[CS85]

Fractured back. Shouldn't miss much time, despite the gloomy sounding nature of the injury.

[The_Admiral]

I can take or leave Richard Sherman, but every impassioned defense of him from the social justice kids, along the lines of "stanford stanford stanford richard sherman went to stanford you didn't go to stanford but richard sherman went to stanford therefore richard sherman is smarter than you and better at football than you and is your superior in every quantifiable way stanford stanford stanford stanford you're just scared of an intelligent black man stanford stanford stanford richard sherman is a brave public intellectual and also stanford" is more annoying than anything Sherman himself has ever said or done.

[FiddySicks]

Not to mention he went there on a FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP and got his degree in freaking communications. COMMUNICATIONS. That's the equivalent of the school saying, Hey! You made to class about 75% of the time, here's a gold star! Now go line up with the rest of the drunk frat girls and women's studies majors and collect your diploma!

[Harmening]

I can take or leave Richard Sherman, but every impassioned defense of him from the social justice kids, along the lines of "stanford stanford stanford richard sherman went to stanford you didn't go to stanford but richard sherman went to stanford therefore richard sherman is smarter than you and better at football than you and is your superior in every quantifiable way stanford stanford stanford stanford you're just scared of an intelligent black man stanford stanford stanford richard sherman is a brave public intellectual and also stanford" is more annoying than anything Sherman himself has ever said or done.

Thanks for the chuckle. :thumbs up:

[DG_ThenNowForever]

I can take or leave Richard Sherman, but every impassioned defense of him from the social justice kids, along the lines of "stanford stanford stanford richard sherman went to stanford you didn't go to stanford but richard sherman went to stanford therefore richard sherman is smarter than you and better at football than you and is your superior in every quantifiable way stanford stanford stanford stanford you're just scared of an intelligent black man stanford stanford stanford richard sherman is a brave public intellectual and also stanford" is more annoying than anything Sherman himself has ever said or done.

Also annoying is creating hyperbolic strawmen who don't say the things you think they do. Sometimes for a smart guy who grasps nuance, you have a way of discounting and then discarding nuance you don't want to hear.

The Richard Sherman moment from last season's NFC Championship game was interesting, in part because of how it looked and and also because of America's general freakout. For some of us, it was interesting to unpack why the reaction was as impassioned as it was. At that point, it's okay to talk about Stanford, Compton and how, yeah, Richard Sherman is pretty good.

But no, I don't recall too much eleventy-11 in defense of Richard Sherman. I do recall a lot of "act like you've been there before," "stop screaming," "Richard Sherman sucks anyway," and "lol you like Richard Sherman you're a dunce social justice warrior."

[The_Admiral]

I just find it tiresome when a big chunk of white America takes glee in someone "scaring" "white America." (Whoa, too many scare-quotes.) There is nothing new under the sun; Richard Sherman is neither the first nor last trash-talking wide receiver/defensive back who scared people by not using his inside voice. He wasn't particularly trenchant, he didn't break any ground himself, he just caused a lot of reactionary blather from one side and stupid navel-gazing from the other. The whole thing was blown extremely out of proportion. I didn't find the moment interesting at all. Too many people on either side wanted it to be way more than it was. Then again, I don't follow the NFL that closely.

Not to mention he went there on a FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP and got his degree in freaking communications. COMMUNICATIONS. That's the equivalent of the school saying, Hey! You made to class about 75% of the time, here's a gold star! Now go line up with the rest of the drunk frat girls and women's studies majors and collect your diploma!

In his defense, he is an effective communicator. The press conference about sponsors was good.