Marquand Manuel is the reason the Seahawks lost SBXL, even more than the refs.
Dude was key to our defense and we had man-off-the-street depth behind him. Etric Pruitt, all-star. Right.
When Manuel got injured and the Steelers saw he was out and targeted his replacement on their trick play TD.
Debatable whether the Willie Parker long TD run would have happened if Manuel had been in. Likely not, but unknowable.
Manuel was actually 2nd string to barfight hothead Ken Hamlin. So at that point Seattle was down to 3rd string Free Safety.
Now Manuel has something else to be famous for, all of 15 minutes worth. Can't see it impacting his future opportunities. Don't see it as anything other than a random unexpected question to see how an interviewee responds, can he think on his feet?
Some can have a "social justice warrior" fit over it, just remember that there are very different ideas of what "social justice" is. He/she who screams loudest is "right"? Whatever our billionaire-agenda-driven propaganda "free press" media decides to focus on is a party line all of us must now accept and support, to the exclusion of honest discussion of other views, to the exclusion of attention on discussing bigger issues that affect us all?
Imagine if this question was asked of Russell Wilson, pre-draft, and hypothically, was single/unattached at the time. How would he have responded? He might have talked about all the men who have been important in his life, starting with his father, and ignored the sexual connotation. Just because the bait is out there doesn't mean you have to jump at it.
Remember the presidential debate where Bernard Shaw asking Michael Dukakis the question about his wife being raped and murdered, if he would support the death penalty for the murderer?
http://content.time.com/time/specials/p ... 12,00.html
It was a horrible, tasteless question, but Dukakis tone-deaf response was like a kiss of death for his presidential hopes, treating it as a cold, intellectual matter, with little emotion. Dukakis and his team failed to anticipate and prepare for Bush's strategy to "Make Willie Horton his (Dukakis') running mate, and Dukakis himself was not quick enough on his feet to respond in a way that connected with anyone, and in fact his cold response turned off nearly everyone.
So it might be reasonable to ask such "disruptive questions" particularly of QB prospects, who will constantly have to face and adjust to opponents' efforts to distract, confuse, and trick him, and think on his feet and respond in real time, make adjustments, and communicate those adjustments to his team.