I never took offense about what he said about ST. He wasn't judging the dude and Sean by his own admission said he made alot of mistakes in his life growing up. So its not like he made up sh*t bout him. The only thing I thought was a stretch was that he somewhat assimilated what happen on the night of the break in was connected to enemies he once had in life. That was a stretch and he went back on the air and backtracked that he wasn't referencing the shooting when he made the enemy comment. I dunno either way, but i dont care about Cowherd enough for it ever to bother me. But that is just me. Im far more happy our Canes are free and clear and one their way back to Championship Form! I take far more offense to those NCAA F*CKTARDS.
*#*# HIM. You disrespect ST, you are dead to me. Then the fool had 4 years to think about it and maybe re-evaluate his comments, but then he says this in the ESPN book:
"One of the comments that bothered people — people said, ‘He turned his life around.’ And I came out and said, ‘Hey, a lot of times you clean the carpet, but you don’t get all the stains out.’ And people are like, ‘What does that mean?’ Well, just because you turn your life around doesn’t mean everybody else is going to accept your apology. I mean, Sean had made a lot of enemies in his life apparently.”
That's the thing, he did judge. He took an opinion about ST and automatically linked his past with the robbery. He formed a judgement about the situation based on ST's past without researching all the facts. Then a few days later realizing he was in the wrong he gives this:
"To this day on Sean Taylor I think my opinion's reasonable, given his history. I think it's wrong. And I think what bothered most people, and I totally get this, is the way in which I presented the story. Brusque, arrogant, smug, I get it. I try to give you a rollercoaster of emotions every day. There are days I'm funny and days I'm mean, there's days I'm poignant there's days I'm not, there's days I'm maddening, there's days, I've cried on the air. I laugh constantly on the air. Sometimes I don't like me."
"But we are always opinionated and always aggressive and we think, on Sean Taylor, absolutely reasonable, though clearly at this point to some degree, wrong. And I've got no problems saying it. Well, I do have a problem saying it, I hate being wrong. Who likes being wrong? I don't like being wrong. Trust me, on those college football Saturdays, you don't think I'm pulling for my teams to win so I can thump my chest on Monday? Of course I do. Um, but, um, so there you go."
Like did you just compared being wrong about the reasonsing for Sean Taylor's death to picking teams on Saturdays?