Of all the inane questions asked on media day, this one, which attempted to pin the sins of all strip-club loving athletes upon Richard Sherman, won the prize. And of all the answers to those inane questions, Sherman’s deflection was tops, second only to the actual deflection he made to help his Seattle Seahawks make the Super Bowl.

Question: “As far as money is concerned, all of you football guys has gone into the strip clubs and are raining [money] down on the strippers. I think that’s a bad example for our young ladies. How can we stop that. I think it’s a bad example that we setting for our young girls that they need to be strippers. How do we deal with that issue?”

Sherman: “Well, I’ve never gone into a strip club and thrown money, so I couldn’t tell you. I guess trying to understand that there are other avenues, there are other ways you can make money, that women can do anything they want in this world. You can go out there and be a CEO of a company. Like I said before, the same can be said for kids in the inner city — the ceiling is limitless and don’t limit yourself to those possibilities and those circumstances.”

If there are still any people out there confused as to what Richard Sherman’s about, that answer should do the trick. Bluster and faux apologies aside, he’s a man who emerged from a tough environment with the help of family, education and hard work. He wants others to follow his example.

But the idea that Sherman has to give an answer to a question like that is everything that’s wrong with media day. Marshawn Lynch had the right idea.