SpokaneHawks":3fvplz60 said:
Personally I loved the young, boisterous, over the top, "Straight outta Compton", in your face, gonna take your best and shut you down Sherman!
That Sherman was always a caricature; a WWE persona taken on by a guy who grew up decidedly midle-class in order to get his name out there.
It was a runaway success of a persona, but was unsustainable. If he had kept it up once he got to the top he would have instantly become a heel, which I think he definitely realized and recognized as it started to happen.
At the end of the day for all celebrities what we get is more "public personas" than true personality (if that even exists), but I'm a huge, huge fan of his second act, and think it's probably truer to who he is in day-to-day life than the character he was playing before.
If he wants to, Sherman could be the first major-american athlete in a long time to really use his voice for something meaningful: the Jim Brown, Ali, Jabbar, and so on of his generation. Starting with O.J. and really culminating in Jordan athletes for the last 35 years have almost entirely silenced themselves in order to serve as bland corporate spokesmen.
Sherman isn't doing that, and I love it.