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The official stats from Monday night's Arizona-San Francisco debacle in the desert say that Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson got sacked once, but they are off by one.The footage of Anderson blowing up at a reporter asking why he and lineman Deuce Lutui had the temerity to laugh on the bench trailing by 18 in the fourth quarter has been repeated and dissected as much as the Zapruder film, but the result is always the same: Anderson comes off as a jerk.
The truth is, Anderson had every right to be angry at the latest example of television and the media showing things without context, then placing the subject under a heat lamp to explain away actions that are likely entirely proper.
Anderson had the bad luck of sharing what appeared to be a private moment with Lutui on a Monday night telecast, when ESPN rolls out a phalanx of cameras to document a dog of a game. If this game had been on a Sunday afternoon, there probably wouldn't have been a camera on the two players.
But there was a camera, and it caught two players, in the throes of a beatdown, sharing a laugh. Perhaps the chuckle was, as has been suggested in some places, about the hopelessness of the situation. Maybe the two men spotted an attractive cheerleader and traded chuckles. Perhaps they saw a player pulling his pants down. Who knows? More importantly, who cares?
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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/11/30/derek-anderson-victim-of-medias-blindside-sack/
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