Some Headline Worthy Trash Talking Before the Super Bowl?

Super Bowl XLVIII

Seattle Seahawks 43,. Denver Broncos 8

East Rutherford, New Jersey

February 2, 2014

We all know that the media tends to bate people into saying shocking things that will make all of the headlines. In sports, right around this time of the year, it is the same every time. They try and take what a player, or maybe even a coach, says, and magnify it. Sometimes, of course, they do not need to. Like when Namath guaranteed victory in Super Bowl III. Or, during the lead-up to Super Bowl XXIV, when the Broncos promised that they would win the big game against San Francisco (they lost, 55-10). Or, when the Seattle Seahawks were last in the Super Bowl, and the Steelers Joey Porter and the Seahawks Jerramy Stevens were trying to get in each other's head. Or, for that matter, when the 10-6 New York Giants dressed all in black, as if for a funeral, to mark the end of the undefeated Patriots dynasty back in 2007.

Trash talking certainly happens. Some thrive by making headlines, some thrive in responding when headlines are made about them, some thrive only at making headlines.

Usually, headlines are made, but seem a bit forced. That's because most people do not want to make headlines. in fact, they wish to remain out of the headlines altogether in the lead-up to the big game, in order to help themselves, and their team, stay focused.

Of course, Richard Sherman has been making news ever since the NFC Championship Game, when he got in a scuffle with 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree, then gave the choke sign to San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and then followed all of that up with a fiery, trash-talking interview dissing Crabtree. But, other than a relatively mild comment about Peyton Manning throwing duck balls, while still making sure to compliment the quarterback plenty, Sherman has remained otherwise quiet.

Sometimes, headlines come from another source altogether. And this year, the most brash talk was from a quarterback who will not even be playing in this year's game.

Not true for the man he defeated in the NFC Championship Game, though, and then gave the choke sign to.

Yes, Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, chose to finally speak out and voice his opinion on the Seahawks. or, more specifically, one Seahawk defender in particular. Yes, you guessed it: he talked trash about Richard Sherman.

Here are some of the things that he had to say (taken from Yahoo Shutdown Corner article by Kevin Kaduk - see link below)::

Colin Kaepernick on Sherman: "He's afraid of our receivers, and that's something I'm looking forward to [exploiting] next year."


Colin Kaepernick on the final play of NFCCG: "If I throw that ball one foot farther, it's a TD and now you're the goat, Richard Sherman."


Colin Kaepernick on Sherman's choke sign: "Did that make you feel better about yourself? Then go ahead. Because I’m not worried about you."

Colin Kaepernick on Sherman: "His comments were ridiculous. If you have to tell people how good you are, then how good are you really?"


Wow! For a quarterback who lost in the NFC Championship Game to that same Sherman and his Seahawks that he is directing his trash talking to, Kaepernick sure has a lot to say now, after the fact.

Well, it is a little easier for him to make bold trash talk worthy of headlines right now, since he is not actually participating in the game. I don't remember him being so brash last year, when he and his team were preparing for the big game themselves.

In any case, he is making noise, and apparently he is not the only quarterback that will not be playing in this week's big game that is, nevertheless, willing to talk some trash. None other than Cam Newton made it clear that he will be responding to Kaepernick's own behavior during the recent playoff meeting between the Carolina Panthers and the San Francisco 49ers.

Stay tuned!

Here is the link to the article that I got the information from:

"Colin Kaepernick blasts Richard Sherman, says he's a 'big Broncos fan' this week" by Kevin Kaduk By Kevin Kaduk of Shutdown Corner, January 30, 2014:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/colin-kaepernick-blasts-richard-sherman--says-he-s-a--big-broncos-fan--this-week-173544521.html