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It wasn't just one thing it was the totality of everything she said. That play didn't warrant that type of response she had. First she talked about Sherman with all of this rage. Based on the play, I saw a man jump offside and continue going because the play continued and Buffalo still kicked the ball. She could have called him reckless, said he should be fined, suspended, kicked out of the league or something. Football is a violent sport, but yet you call him out as full of rage, state "if you act like an animal you should be treated as one", and then the castration portion. Where did she even get all of this from on a simple offside play. She put this into her on descriptive words and if you choose to believe she would have described it that way about a non- African American player then this is where the lens through which we view this incident differentiates. Her way of describing how she viewed Sherman and the proper way to handle him is just too reminiscent of how slaves were described, viewed, and treated. Her cavalier usage of language that has long been applied to Black men in this country, characterizing them as less than human entities that should be feared, can be brushed off as a bad choice of words, but excuse me for me assuming I know how this movie ends, because I'm almost positive that I read the book!
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