Seahawks’ Richard Sherman: Trump’s ‘locker-room talk’ characterization was a ‘cop-out’
Oct 12, 2016, 2:46 PM | Updated: 3:28 pm
Richard Sherman joined in the criticism of Donald Trump's "locker-room talk" comments. (AP)
(AP)
RENTON – Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman joined several other current and former athletes in taking issue with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump describing his lewd comments about women as “locker-room talk.”
In a tape from 2005 that was released last week, Trump describes making a sexual advance toward a married woman and says women let him do anything because he’s famous, mentioning grabbing them by their genitals. In apologizing for the comments, Trump referred to them as “locker-room talk.”
“I think it was a cop-out. I think it was a cop-out,” Sherman said Wednesday when asked about Trump’s characterization of his comments as being typical of locker-room banter. “He needed some way to divert the attention from himself. That’s not how most people talk in the locker room, and I think a lot of athletes would say the same. But it allows him to divert the conversation away from him, which was the focus.”
Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett weighed in on Trump’s comments earlier in the week, saying that as a parent of three daughters, he was “irate.”
