Sherman, Seahawks take lead in trash talking

Associated Press

Richard Sherman gave Tom Brady an earful and trolled him on Twitter a few years ago.

Now the All-Pro cornerback says the star quarterback isn’t really a choir boy.

Sherman vs. Brady. Jeremy Lane vs. Rob Gronkowksi. Doug Baldwin vs. the world.

This Super Bowl between the New England Patriots (14-4) and Seattle Seahawks (14-4) will feature some epic yapping from some of the best trash-talkers in the NFL.

“I think people get a skewed view of Tom Brady, that he’s just a clean-cut, does-everything-right (guy), and never says a bad word to anyone, and we know him to be otherwise,” Sherman said.

Sherman said he dared Brady to throw his way during Seattle’s 24-23 win over New England in 2012. He didn’t like the three-time Super Bowl champion’s response.

“He was pretty much saying that we were nobodies and that we should come up to him after they get the win,” Sherman said.

Sherman intercepted one of Brady’s passes in that game and got in his face after Seattle rallied to win on Russell Wilson’s touchdown pass to Sidney Rice in the fourth quarter.

Sherman then posted a picture of the confrontation on Twitter with the caption: “U mad bro?”

“In that moment of him being himself, he said some things and we returned the favor,” Sherman explained. “Unfortunately, he apparently didn’t remember what he said.”

Brady was too busy talking about deflated footballs to fire back this week. But he’ll get plenty of chances in Arizona before the teams meet next Sunday.

“I just thought he came up and said, ‘Good game.’ So that was all a bit of a surprise to me,” Brady said about Sherman’s postgame taunting in 2012.

Brady doesn’t back down from anybody and is quite animated during games so expect to see these two go back-and-forth in the Super Bowl.

It also will be interesting to see if Gronkowski tries to bounce Lane after the slot cornerback dissed the All-Pro tight end.

“I actually don’t think he’s that good,” Lane said Thursday.

Those are fightin’ words for Gronkowski. When Sergio Brown riled him up in November, Gronkowski tossed aside the Colts’ safety and joked that he “threw him out of the club” because he was talking too much.

Then there’s Baldwin, the wide receiver known as “Angry Doug” to teammates.

Baldwin launched into a tirade directed at reporters after Seattle’s overtime win over Green Bay in the NFC championship game. Baldwin claimed the media counted the Seahawks out when they were 3-3 and also took a shot at Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, who criticized Seattle’s receivers.