We’re now a full day out of the famous interview between Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman and Fox sideline reporter Erin Andrews, and you’ve probably read all (or a lot) of the reactions to it.

If somehow you missed the interview, what happened was this: Moments after Sherman had broken up a touchdown pass towards 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree, a pass that was intercepted by his teammate, Sherman mocked Crabtree and then was penalized for making a choking gesture. After the Seahawks ran out the clock and won the NFC Championship, Fox’s Andrews got Sherman to speak.

He went off, yelling that Crabtree was a “sorry receiver” and warned Crabtree never to talk about him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elatO5E8pGs

The Internet exploded following the interview. Some people praised him for his honesty. Some argued his actions may have been calculated. Many (rightfully) noted the horrifying, racist responses to Sherman on Twitter and other forms of social media.

Many others — including reporters — hopped up on what NFL.com’s Dave Dameshek calls “Mount Pious” and began passing judgment. They said Sherman was out of line. He was disrespectful to the game. He was acting in a manner unbecoming of a professional athlete.

Here’s the thing, though. Some of these reporters were the very same ones who have complained publicly, in print, that athletes never do anything but speak in clichés. They long for the good old days, when athletes had real personalities and weren’t all trained by media specialists.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You can’t complain that athletes are too well media-trained and the days of “big personalities” are gone and then freak out when an athlete goes off script.

Erin Andrews, the Fox sideline reporter who conducted the interview with Sherman that set the sports world ablaze, understands that. In an interview with For the Win, Andrews said she thought it was “so awesome. And I loved it.”

“We hope they lose their minds like that,” she said. “We hope they show pure joy.”

Andrews gets it. She’s had to stand on the sidelines for countless, countless interviews as athletes say they “were just out there trying to compete” and “wanted to help the ballclub” and all the other mindless drivel we’ve drilled into our athletes, clichés so rampant that they ceased to have meaning long ago.

But why would an athlete do anything else? Sherman showed emotion and was immediately labeled “classless” and “a thug,” and will now have to answer tons of questions over the next two weeks about the interview, when all he did was give us exactly what we’ve been begging for all this time — something real, something honest.

We want these players to go out and destroy each other, viciously hit each other, play with unimaginable intensity, and then we demand they walk off the field and boringly mumble platitudes about “working hard and trusting my teammates.”

Sherman never cursed in his interview. He called Crabtree a “sorry receiver,” an insult my grandfather might have used.

Andrews herself said she never felt threatened by Sherman, and that he had given her a big hug before the interview. This was a man who was excited and, for once in sport, actually said how he felt, and he did so using language that was fine for network television.

So take your pick. If you want to demonize Sherman for speaking his mind in an aggressive way, fine.

But don’t then complain that athletes never say anything other than cliches, or never “give you anything” to work with in your stories, or moan that they refuse to answer a question like a human being.

You don’t get to have both. It’s hypocritical.

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Today’s other big winners:

Roger Goodell: Says the NFL might be doing away with extra points. Is it time for them to go?

Kobe Bryant: Kobe announced he wouldn’t compete in the 2016 Olympics, and then got a dig in at Lakers teammate Pau Gasol.

Kate Upton: The model called on the Jets and Giants to help her with her latest photoshoot.

Vitali Klitschko: The heavyweight boxer was captured in shocking video trying to quell protests in his native Ukraine.

Johnny Manziel: The former Heisman winner took a shot at Seattle’s 12th man.

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