{"id":10790,"date":"2015-02-02T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2015-02-02T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:21:51","slug":"nfl-trashtalker-richard-sherman-speaks-truth-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10790","title":{"rendered":"NFL Trashtalker Richard Sherman Speaks Truth To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL’s Trashtalker of Truth<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Seahawks\u2019 Richard Sherman is the most eloquent critic of his own league.<\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Will Leitch
\nB<\/a>loomberg.com<\/span><\/p>\n

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PHOENIX\u2014The first thing you learn being in town during Super Bowl week is that this time of year makes everyone insane. There hasn\u2019t been a single story\u2014not a single shrug\u2014that hasn\u2019t been blown up into something massive since I got here. Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch answers every question with \u201cI\u2019m here so I don\u2019t get fined\u201d and it turns into a\u00a0culture war between the old-guard press and the new school<\/a>. New England owner Bob Kraft interrupts a press conference to demand that the NFL apologize to him and the Patriots for the DeflateGate accusations, and it\u2019s the lead story on every newscast, sports and otherwise, in the country. Tom Brady pleaded in his much-derided press conference last week to keep this all in perspective, that \u201cthis isn\u2019t ISIS,\u201d and he was right: ISIS is the story you tease,\u00a0maybe,\u00a0<\/em>after you\u2019ve got Bill Nye\u2019s exclusive thoughts on air pressure. This is how\u00a0the Super Bowl is now<\/a>: It\u2019s the biggest media event in the United States and everything about it must be broadcast accordingly, at maximum levels. It\u2019d give you a splitting headache if your ears weren\u2019t already filled with blood.<\/p>\n

But the strangest thing about it may be that, despite the Super Bowl\u2019s screaming insistence, the one guy you would have expected to be at the centerpiece of every storyline this week has been so overlooked. Where in the world, I ask, is Richard Sherman?<\/p>\n

It was only one year ago that Richard Sherman became the most ubiquitous athlete and media presence in the country. It only took a few seconds.<\/p>\n

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