Not sure what that was after the game, but Richard Sherman’s bizarre interview with Erin Andrews shows who else is going to be the star of Super Bowl week besides Peyton Manning. Please step up to the microphone, Mr. Sherman.
In case you’ve forgotten, here is Sherman’s attempted takedown of Skip Bayless last year on First Take.
Last night’s session with Andrews will go down in postgame interview history. It is a wonder outbursts like that don’t happen more often, given the intensity of emotions just after a game.
Andrews had this tweet:
Dan Levy of Bleacher Report writes:
After watching that game, and witnessing for the third time this year just how much these two teams genuinely hate each other, I kind of loved the moment.
I’m sorry, but hearing one of the best players in the game call out a guy he just beat to get to his first Super Bowl is awesome.
Tommy Tomlinson, writing for Forbes:
5. His degree from Stanford was in communications … which might explain why, while he seemed to be hollering like a crazy person, he didn’t curse and looked into the camera the whole time.
6. In other words, he might have just been auditioning for the WWE.
7. Maybe 15 minutes later, when Sherman sat down with the Fox NFL guys, he was calm and funny.
8. If you stick a microphone in a football player’s face seconds after he made a huge play to send his team to the Super Bowl, you shouldn’t be surprised if he’s a little amped up.
9. Ninety-nine percent of on-field interviews are boring and useless. The TV networks do them anyway for the 1 percent of the time they get a moment like Richard Sherman.
10. As a reporter and writer, that raw emotion — whatever form it takes — is exactly what I hope for. That’s why media people fight for access to locker rooms. After players and coaches cool off, most of them turn into Crash Davis, reading from the book of cliches.