Seattle Seahawks
Two Irish Men Snag $25,000 Superbowl Seats
While hundreds wallowed over their Super Bowl ticket deals falling through on Sunday, two Seattle Seahawks fans from Ireland managed to sneak into University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Ariz., and snag $25,000 seats for free.
“Our game plan was to be super confident,” Richard Whelan, who attended with friend Paul McEvoy, told RTE Radio One Morning Ireland (via theIndependent). “We just thought if we pretend we belong there, nobody will question us.”
Richard Sherman Could Miss Superbowl For His Son’s Birth!
“He’s not supposed to come on Sunday,” Sherman told reporters Thursday during his final pre-Super Bowl press conference, as reported by the New York Daily News. “Obviously that would change some things, but I think he’s going to be a disciplined young man and stay in there until after the game. He’s going to do his father his first favor and stay in there for another week or two.”
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Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch are Black Heroes
For me, Lynch, Sherman and black men and women like them represent active resistance to these subtle microaggressions, which are ensconced in white supremacy. They do not pander to, coddle or center whiteness in their media interactions and it is their radical sense of agency that unnerves some (read: white) people. It unsettles their latent sense of entitlement, driving them to scream “thug” — the same way that slave masters screamed “nigger.” It’s a reflexive response to black autonomy, marking those bodies as sites of terror.
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