By Joy Zhang ‘14

Many took to social media to criticize Seattle Seahawk Richard Sherman’s post-game interview with Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews. “Fool,” “barbaric,” “thug” and much worse names were used to describe Sherman’s behavior. Some even apologized on behalf of Sherman to Andrews, starting the hashtag “#imsorryrichardshermanscaredyou” on Twitter.

This entire backlash is completely unjustified. Sherman may have come off as overzealous during his rant, claiming to be the best cornerback and threatening San Francisco 49er Michael Crabtree, but he looked into the camera the entire time and profanity was never used. Sherman graduated second in his class in high school and has a degree in communications from Stanford. He is definitely not a fool or thug, and he was far from acting barbaric; he was simply amped up after making the game winning tipped interception to Malcolm Smith.

People are overreacting in regards to the interview. Richard Sherman didn’t do anything wrong.  If I was going to the Super Bowl, I would be screaming too.