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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Richard Sherman's right to be an asshole

So did you know that you're not allowed to tell a millionaire professional Guy Who Plays With Rubber Filled With Air unless you too are a current or former Guy Who Plays With Rubber Filled With Air?  Neither did I.  Try telling that to Richard Sherman though (or, don't, because who the fuck are you to tell him anything?).

The owners of all 32 NFL teams met in Boca Raton and discussed 19 rule changes, the one causing so much heartache with Sherman being this: a player flagged with two personal fouls in the same game should be ejected from that game. According to sportingcharts.com:

"The personal foul is considered the most reviled of penalties, and the most avoidable. The two main kinds of personal foul are unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct. Examples of unnecessary roughness include a late hit after the conclusion of the play, a  grasp of the facemask that turns the head of an opposing player, an illegal block on the knees of an vulnerable player, or a blow to the head of the quarterback. Examples of unsportsmanlike conduct include taunting, excessive celebration after a touchdown, contact with an official, or fighting with an opposing player. In the event that two players from opposing teams receive personal fouls on the same play, the penalties are considered to be "offsetting" and the down is replayed."

Richard Sherman does NOT like this.  Let USA Today take it from here:

"I think it's foolish," Sherman said in an interview on SportsCenter. "But it sounds like something somebody who's never played the game would say, something that they would suggest, because he doesn't understand. He's just a face. He's just a suit. He's never stepped foot on the field and understood how you can get a personal foul."

What the fuck does that even mean?  So I need to have been a professional football player in order to insist you don't punch another player in the face?  Only if I have taken snaps would I know how hard it is to avoid roughing up an official because I didn't like what he said?  This doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm just a non-football playing face, so what do I know?

 http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/seahawks/2016/03/20/richard-sherman-roger-goodell-foolish-ejection-proposal/82050612/

http://www.sportingcharts.com/dictionary/nfl/personal-foul.aspx

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