potential witnesses to bolster their case, including one man who was the cellmate of their brother who said the young man at the time said he did not do this and that he was forced into a confession. david mattingly, 14 years old. thank you very much. appreciate that. in the nfl, a big personality oftentimes brings big business. interest in richard sherman sky high right now two days after the seattle seahawks star cornerback unleashed this epic postgame rant aimed at his opponent michael crabtree. i m the best corner in the game. when you try me with a sorry receiver like crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. don t you ever talk about me. who was talking about you? crabtree. don t you open your mouth about the best or i m going to shut it for you really quick. that just gives me life, by the way. my favorite part is erin andrews when she goes who was talking? i wish we could play it over again. since that rant, sherman has been at the center of the
but thug seems to be an underlying way to bring it back to race, and something that sherman is not only offended by, but he told me he was surprised by. here s the thing, rachel i don t even think he was a bad sport. i m a passionate soccer fan, cricket fan, and i watched it live. let s watch it again. we just had the calm and nice version of mr. sherman. let s watch the rant again and i ll say what i want to say about it. well, i m the best corner in the game. when you try me with a sorry receiver like crabtree, that s the result you re gonna get! don t you ever talk about me! who was talking about you? crabtree. don t you open your mouth about the best! or i m going to shut it for you, real quick! you see, i absolutely love that. i love the passion, the drive, the total commitment. but i love it in the context of what he just said to you, which is, when i m on a football field, that is what i have to be to win. when he s off the football field with you, lovely guy.
we begin with the remarkable rant heard around the world. richard sherman mouthing off to fox sports erin andrews following the seahawks incredible victory sunday to take the nfc title. the game ended with this, a play for the ages that put sherman s team in the super bowl. but the icing on the cake was surely this. sherman blasting the 49ers michael crabtree moments after victory. well, i m the best corner in the game. when you try me with a sorry receiver like crabtree, that s the result you re gonna get! don t you ever talk about me! who was talking about you? crabtree. don t you open your mouth about the best! or i m going to shut it for you real quick! sherman went on to apologize. and i talk exclusively to rachel nichols. rachel, before we get to your interview, which was a great coup for you and cnn, what was your reaction when you were watching it live to what he did? reporter: well, actually, we hear things like that all of the time. so i was a bit surprised at the
and that would be the only part i regret. the way it s covered. it is what it is. what i said is what i said. i don t say i probably shouldn t have attacked another person. i don t mean to attack him. and that was immature. and i probably shouldn t have done that. i regret doing that. but i just felt like my teammates deserved better. and i you know, i have to apologize to them. and i have. reporter: your brother has said that michael crabtree was rude to you at an event this past summer, a charity event, that he shunned you, he wouldn t talk to you. and that you said at the time, all right, i m going to show him on the field. is that the background of all of this? yeah, that s the short version. reporter: that s the clean version? and we re going to keep it clean. reporter: all right. did it get nastier than that? we re going to keep it clean. reporter: okay. and i told i said, i would keep it on the field. i will show you on the field. and that s always been my
they were sitting at a computer and they expressed themselves in a true way and i thought society had moved passed that. we like to think as a country things have changed and, of course, to a degree they have. well, i ve learned we haven t come as far as, you know, i thought we had come. and if that s all it took to bring that out of people, then it might have already been on the surface. you know, i didn t i didn t go out there and scream at anybody, anybody s family or attack anybody but michael crabtree, which was wrong. which was wrong. i understand that. but these people are acting like i attacked them in some way. i did my job effectively. afterwards, they interviewed me and i had an interview. regardless of how that interview goes, doesn t give you the right to say the things they were saying. and that s the part that s sad. boy, what an intelligent