by David Zizmor

The Seattle Seahawks Richard Sherman is scheduled to be at the Super Bowl in Glendale, it’s pretty tough to skip a Super Bowl and it’s obviously tough to skip the birth or your child and you can’t skip the birth of your child but you do know exactly when the Super Bowl is going to happen. Sherman is schedule to be at the Super Bowl on Sunday crossing his fingers that his wife will wait and the baby will wait.

Other than that there’s not a whole lot that Sherman can do and it’s not really up to him when that baby comes and it’s due any day now and it could very well be on Super Bowl Sunday there’s not a whole lot he can do. When it’s the Super Bowl you go to the Super Bowl until you know otherwise. We’ll see what happens there’s not a whole lot that can be done and it’s just the way it is.

Without Sherman in the Seahawks line up if that were to happen your talking about a legitimate shut down corner whose the best in the game if not the best. The only other guy who might be in that category is cornerback Darrelle Revis from the New England Patriots. You take a guy away like Sherman your definitely handicapping the Seattle defense.

The Hawks certainly have a deep defense so they might have some guys on the bench that can come in and play adequately but it’s never easy to replace a Pro Bowler and expect similar results. You can get lucky but the thing with Sherman is that he eliminates one side of the field with the defense. You can trust he’s going to cover his guy on his side meaning that it’s much more likely the ball is going to go the opposite way to focus your defense to really take advantage of that.

Aaron Hernandez jurors are allowed to watch Super Bowl but must walk out of room if name is mentioned on TV: Former Patriot Aaron Hernandez is on trial for the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd who was dating Hernandez’ finacee’s sister. The jury in the murder case was told by Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh that jurors could watch the Super Bowl but must walk out of the room and distance themselves from any TV conversation regarding Aaron Hernandez if the subject comes up.

It’s very unlikely that it will come up but you never know a lot of weird controversies surrounding the league this year have happened with former Baltimore Raven Ray Rice (domestic violence), Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson (child abuse), San Francisco 49er Aldon Smith (DUI and TSA issues), former 49er Ray McDonald (domestic violence and sexual abuse allegations), and Deflategate.

There’s so many different things going on Hernandez going in for a murder trial is one of the bigger things that has happened related to the NFL that’s happened in the last several years. It wouldn’t be shocking if that did come up in the telecast as the Patriots are his former team and are playing in the Super Bowl. How the jurors in this case can just excuse themselves for the moment when the announcers say “Aaron Hernandez” during the broadcast is anybody’s guess.

Maybe the jurors should watch the game with the sound off that seems like the obvious solution but then again I’m not the judge. Hernandez is a troubled guy, he’s been this way since college and he was a known risk when the Patriots signed him. He obviously has a lot of talent but he also has a lot of problems and a lot of teams when they pick guys like that they can fix them but Hernandez is clearly beyond fixing.

David Zizmor is covering Super Bowl XLIX for http://www.sportsradioservice.com hear the rest of David’s commentary in the podcast below