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Richard Sherman shares hilarious trash-talk story involving a ref

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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is one of the most outspoken figures in the NFL, rarely passing up an opportunity to get under an opponent's skin or criticize the league.

Sherman has some memorable trash-talk stories of his own, but told GQ's Jack Moore that the best piece of trash talk he ever heard came from someone else's mouth.

The funniest one I've ever heard is when a guy famously grabbed a ref during a TV timeout and brought him over to a player on the other team and made the ref tell the other player that the first guy made way more money than this guy and that this guy would never be half the player. He made the ref say that. I mean using the ref to trash talk? That was awesome. There's nothing topping that. I don't even want to say the best I've said, because it's nowhere near that.

Sherman touched on several other topics in the interview, including what he thinks of so-called "draft experts."

It's more funny than it is frustrating. I don't really care. I think of it as them talking to a bunch of sheep who will believe anything anyway. So I just laugh. Because they have no idea. Every year they sit here and make all these predictions about who's going to get drafted and where and how they have all this inside information, and then when the guys don't get drafted there, and what they predicted doesn't happen, there's no ridicule. There's no criticism. It's just, "Oh, we got that one wrong ... AGAIN. We'll get 'em next year." And people keep watching! It's the funniest thing in the world. In any other aspect of life, in any other walk of life, if somebody gets something wrong enough and they're called a professional ... I'll put it like this, if a weatherman kept predicting the weather wrong, people would stop listening to him. But they keep listening to these guys!

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