carolinajazz
Well-Known Member
....starring Colin Kaepernick, Kevin Garnett and now Richard Sherman!
"In the Garnett and Kapernick ads, the public is presented as a hateful, enraged, violent mob that must be restrained from attacking them. The headphones make them all go away.
In the new Sherman ad, the media — apparently not those who have been excusing his hideous but hideously calculated behavior — are portrayed as stupid, insensitive.
That all three pros have goaded opponents and their fans into disliking them — the “they started it” of it — doesn’t come into play.
Respect is now a one-way street, something one demands, no reciprocity.
The inanities that followed Sherman’s wild-eyed and apparently contrived — good for his fame and fortune — post-NFC Championship behavior, naturally included the “race angle.”
In pandering places, Sherman’s misanthropy was rationalized, explained, excused, defended and even applauded as a matter of race; he’s African-American.
But what does that say? We shouldn’t expect better or different from blacks?
What about the target of Sherman’s mocking, Niners WR Michael Crabtree? He’s black! Think he’d defend Sherman as a matter of shared race?
Among those who have excused or celebrated Sherman’s behavior, how many would encourage their kids to behave that way?
Before it becomes a matter of black or white, shouldn’t it stand — alone, and at the top — as a matter of wrong or right?
In Sherman’s headphone ad he’s insulted by the suggestion he’s “a thug.” But the reality of it all would leave Sherman infuriated: “How dare you suggest that I’m a thug — just because I act like one!”
Kaepernick, in a playoff game, stood in the end zone mocking the opposing QB, then kissed his biceps. Yet, he appears in his ad as an aggrieved party, a target of the insensitive uncivil.
Garnett publicly and obscenely denigrated an opponent’s wife! Still, he, too, appears in his ad as far above the crass, classless, paltry public fray."
I like this....I like this a lot! How about you?
https://nypost.com/2014/01/26/no-sportsmanship-in-ads/
"In the Garnett and Kapernick ads, the public is presented as a hateful, enraged, violent mob that must be restrained from attacking them. The headphones make them all go away.
In the new Sherman ad, the media — apparently not those who have been excusing his hideous but hideously calculated behavior — are portrayed as stupid, insensitive.
That all three pros have goaded opponents and their fans into disliking them — the “they started it” of it — doesn’t come into play.
Respect is now a one-way street, something one demands, no reciprocity.
The inanities that followed Sherman’s wild-eyed and apparently contrived — good for his fame and fortune — post-NFC Championship behavior, naturally included the “race angle.”
In pandering places, Sherman’s misanthropy was rationalized, explained, excused, defended and even applauded as a matter of race; he’s African-American.
But what does that say? We shouldn’t expect better or different from blacks?
What about the target of Sherman’s mocking, Niners WR Michael Crabtree? He’s black! Think he’d defend Sherman as a matter of shared race?
Among those who have excused or celebrated Sherman’s behavior, how many would encourage their kids to behave that way?
Before it becomes a matter of black or white, shouldn’t it stand — alone, and at the top — as a matter of wrong or right?
In Sherman’s headphone ad he’s insulted by the suggestion he’s “a thug.” But the reality of it all would leave Sherman infuriated: “How dare you suggest that I’m a thug — just because I act like one!”
Kaepernick, in a playoff game, stood in the end zone mocking the opposing QB, then kissed his biceps. Yet, he appears in his ad as an aggrieved party, a target of the insensitive uncivil.
Garnett publicly and obscenely denigrated an opponent’s wife! Still, he, too, appears in his ad as far above the crass, classless, paltry public fray."
I like this....I like this a lot! How about you?
https://nypost.com/2014/01/26/no-sportsmanship-in-ads/
