Richard Sherman Monologue

Alexander Valentin
Instructor King
ENC 1101
2/6/2015

All around me there is a mixture of excitement and fear. People are in pain, shocked with disbelief, upset. In an instant millions of emotions went from astounded, excited, and anxious, to heartbroken and defeated. I’m in shock and can’t even begin to understand how it was that I got here. It’s January 19, 2014. The Seattle Seahawks just beat the San Francisco 49ers in the toughest game I can recall. I’m Richard Sherman, and I’m the reason why they won. I’m the best in the NFL, and everyone is about to know it. But what I still can’t understand is, how did I get here? Some think I’m opinionated, arrogant, a thug, but just about everybody thinks Richard Sherman is a nobody. I’m here to

He taught me how to be tough, to be a great football player. He would put me against the biggest kid on the field and would make me try to run him over. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever tried taking down someone bigger than you, especially as an 11 year old kid, but it isn’t fun. I closed my eyes and ran the guy over. At least I thought I did. “Again!” my dad yelled. I tensed up ready to try again, and again got humiliated. The kid twice my size hit me even harder that time. My dad grabbed me, picked me up and threw me down. “Do it right! Be a football player!” I’ll never forget he shouted. The next try, I destroyed the kid. Sent him flying. Since that day I knew I’d never be afraid on the field

There wasn’t a position for me on the football team, but the degree was the utmost important thing. That, and I knew I would make myself a position on the team if I had to. Eventually at Stanford I established myself as the, in my eyes, best corner in the nation. For some reason I’ll never understand, despite turning around a troubled football program, and killing it with my grades, when the nfl draft came and went, I went undrafted. UNDRAFTED! ME! Every team passed on me, even my eventual Seahawks. That disrespect motivated me, motivates me to this day, so when you see me, don’t think of me as the thug, think of me as the guy you never gave enough respect