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The entire transcript:
Andrews: “Richard, let me ask you about the final play. Take me through it.”
Sherman: “Well, I’m the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that’s the result you’re going to get. Don’t you ever talk about me.”
Andrews: “Who was talking about you?”
Sherman: “Crabtree. Don’t you open your mouth about the best. Or I’m ma shut it for you real quick. L.O.B!"
Man, I would hate for my kid to ever say he was the best and to tell someone else to stop their bragging, 20 seconds after he made a play to stop a touchdown and send his team to the Super Bowl. Sherman didn't kill anyone, wave a gun around, break a law, even cuss.  He wasn't even blatantly disrespectful. He was somewhat disparaging of his opponent, i.e. something I hear before and after many MMA and Boxing fights.  Except they're way worse.  Carlos Zambrano just started another brawl down in winter ball.  That's thuggish.  Sherman threw no punches, nor laid any racial epithets. Tiger Woods has said worse on a golf course playing that "genteman's game."
Of course, on Sherman's children's charity website, "fans" of the NFL felt perfectly free to spew racist garbage at a man whose crime was to call another man "a sorry receiver" and say that he shut that dude's mouth.
Calling someone a thug for daring to say anything other than glowing praise for the dude who wanted to fight his brother and that he had just beaten on the field of competition... I don't get it. He's never even cussed in front of a microphone in his life.  Even in the heat of the moment he didn't.  Melissa Leo can drop F-bombs at her award acceptance speech without getting called a thug.  Good to be white, I guess.
~G