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Richard Sherman on "deflate-gate" -- cheating is less serious than wearing gold shoes?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/22/richard-sherman-deflategate_n_6523248.html?cps=gravity_2246_759206607101857904What appears to irk Sherman about “deflategate” isn’t so much the appearance of cheating itself, but how he expects the league to react compared to how it punishes other infractions. The NFL told Sherman’s teammate, star running back Marshawn Lynch, that he would be barred from playing in last week's NFC Championship Game if he wore these gold cleats:
“They were trying to suspend Marshawn for gold shoes and that [deflating the ball] really affects the game,” Sherman said, according to the Boston Globe. “You suspend Marshawn for gold shoes, then you’ve got balls being deflated and that’s the issue.”
Sherman has a history of calling out what he sees as NFL hypocrisy.
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