{"id":8751,"date":"2014-01-28T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8751"},"modified":"2014-01-28T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T20:06:03","slug":"richard-sherman-asked-about-football-players-and-strippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/28\/richard-sherman-asked-about-football-players-and-strippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Sherman asked about football players and strippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8752\" alt=\"shermanstrippers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/shermanstrippers.png\" width=\"621\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/shermanstrippers.png 621w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/shermanstrippers-300x129.png 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/shermanstrippers-50x21.png 50w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/shermanstrippers-620x268.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NFL&#8217;s Super Bowl Media Day is always full of silly and often unfootball related questions. Tuesday&#8217;s session was no different.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights was a question directed at Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman which questioned if football players encouraged young women to become strippers by their lavish spending at strip clubs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMvmQ-cMVvo\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Below is a transcript from <a href=\"\u201cAll of you football guys going into the strip clubs, and throwing \u2026 raining down on these strippers. I think that\u2019s a bad example for our young ladies. How can we stop that?\u201d the reporter asked. \u201cI think it\u2019s a bad example that we\u2019re setting for our young girls that they need to be strippers.\u201d How do you answer a question like that? Sherman actually did a pretty decent job. \u201cI\u2019ve never gone to a strip club and thrown money, so I couldn\u2019t tell you,\u201d he replied. \u201cI guess, uh, trying to understand that there are other avenues and other ways you can make money, that women can do anything they want in this world. You can go out there and be a CEO of a company, you can go out there and like I said, same can be said for kids in the inner city, that the ceiling is limitless and don\u2019t limit yourself to those possibilities and those circumstances.\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deadspin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of you football guys going into the strip clubs, and throwing \u2026 raining down on these strippers. I think that\u2019s a bad example for our young ladies. How can we stop that?\u201d the reporter asked. \u201cI think it\u2019s a bad example that we\u2019re setting for our young girls that they need to be strippers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sherman answered the question about the best anyone could have expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never gone to a strip club and thrown money, so I couldn\u2019t tell you,\u201d Sherman replied. \u201cI guess, uh, trying to understand that there are other avenues and other ways you can make money, that women can do anything they want in this world. You can go out there and be a CEO of a company, you can go out there and like I said, same can be said for kids in the inner city, that the ceiling is limitless and don\u2019t limit yourself to those possibilities and those circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We wouldn&#8217;t have expected anything less for the circus which is Super Bowl Media Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL&#8217;s Super Bowl Media Day is always full of silly and often unfootball related questions. Tuesday&#8217;s session was no different. One of the highlights was a question directed at Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman which questioned if football players encouraged young women to become strippers by their lavish spending at strip clubs. 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