@McSpunkle. I feel ya re: board game rage.
That's why playing vidya games w/friends in the room is much more entertaining than online gaming.
Feelings get hurt & dudes whine about such and such cheating, when nobody is cheating. 2d-fighters, especially.
Online? Assume everyone is cheating, between sexing up *your mom*.
FWIW, I'm fine with trash talk...one of my favorite athletes ever is Larry Legend. And Barkley. And Jordan. And Ali.
The difference is those guys were creative about it. Even original. But always humorous.
Sherman's trash talking was boorishly juvenile, cliche and...generally mediocre.
For someone who is Stanford educated I find it ironic the best he could do was rant about mediocrity w/cliches, and sing his own praises without a shred of jest.
And throwing up the choke sign @Kaepernick was tacky and classless. It wasn't funny or clever in any way.
It's easy (for me) to spot people who aren't trying to be funny and instead just try to be mean and hurtful.
And speaking of Kaep, the *trash talk* he did in Carolina was what I consider "doing it right" after that rushing TD, when he mocked the Cam's "Superman" celebration and added the miming of the shirt being buttoned back up...before doing his own bicep-kiss. Now that's both funny & clever. IMO obv...
And @pelliot, I wasn't praying for dude to get hurt. If anything I was hoping the football gods would go easy on him when serving humble pie.
Like I said, life has a way of humbling people who show off and/or get too high on themselves. Additionally nobody likes a smug winner.
He should be thankful that someone didn't Welker-him, and take out his legs after running his yap the way he did.
