John Madden calls Richard Sherman’s actions ’embarrassing’

Seemingly everyone has weighed in on Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman’s actions following the NFC Championship game. And just when you thought you were done, someone else talks about it. Now it is former NFL analyst and head coach John Madden

“I think it’s too much,” Madden said. “To me, it was kind of embarrassing. . . . Kids are watching this, and kids copy the players. I have grandkids and I know that they do because I see them. If a player is wearing a certain color gloves, they have to have that color gloves. A player two weeks ago wore red shoes, I had a grandson came to the game and he had to wear red shoes. The jerseys — they wear the jerseys and they copy everything those guys do. And to be a great one, they don’t know which things they should copy, and they think that’s how they have to play. I think if any apologies ought to be made, it ought to be to the kids. That’s not the way we do it. . . . I thought it was embarrassing.”

“He took away a lot from the other players on his team. Guys played their butts off, guys coached their butts off, and pass rushed and tackled and special teams, and then it got to be all about one guy. In a team sport, that’s wrong,” Madden said.

Of course Sherman had already acknowledged that he took the attention away from his teammates and said he is frustrated his teammates didn’t get enough credit.