Following teammate Marshawn Lynch’s one-word press conference that came seemingly in response to a fine from the NFL for refusing to talk to reporters, Richard Sherman gave a bizarre press conference where he spoke to a cardboard cutout of Doug Baldwin and used his time to plug just about every brand that he is a spokesperson for.
“You know the other day Marshawn Lynch got fined $100,000. Did you know that?” he asked cardboard-cutout-Doug-Baldwin. “They wouldn’t have even paid him that much if he had talked. Gee Louise. But you know who does pay me a lot of money? Beat by Dre, the wonderful headphones that I’m wearing. But the league doesn’t let me say anything about them. Why is that? That seems a little hypocritical. It seems like we’re in a league where they say ‘players you don’t endorse any alcohol. Please don’t endorse alcohol, please no DUIs’, but a beer sponsor is their biggest sponsor.”
Sherman also plugged Campbell’s Soup (another one of his sponsors) and a few more products, before he and Baldwin – who was holding up the cardboard cutout of himself – walked off the stage.
(Thanks to the Seattle Times for sharing)
