Doug Baldwin Says Ball-Pooping Celebration Was Directed at Darrelle Revis

There go the Seahawks, just classin’ up the joint again.

Seattle receiver Doug Baldwin caught just one pass in the Super Bowl, and it was a big one. His three-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter extended his team’s lead to 10 points. He made the play after using an official to pick Patriots corner Darrelle Revis, who’d erased him from existence for the entire game up to that point. It was a slick, veteran move by Baldwin, and it worked to perfection.

What didn’t work as well was his celebration of the score, which amounted to him pretending to defecate the ball. We didn’t see it as it happened thanks to some intrepid telepathy on the part of one of NBC’s technical directors. But that’s what Baldwin did. He pretended to poop a football. And the Seahawks got popped for a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

Perhaps feeling a little reflective over his behavior, Baldwin went on an ESPN radio show in Seattle called “The Barbershop” on Monday evening to confess that the target of his football dump was none other than Revis.

“I spent a lot of time those two weeks prior to getting ready for that game just focused on my individual matchup with him and I put a lot into it, and in that moment, I guess you could say it was just kind of a built-up frustration I was letting out in that sequence, you know, between him and I,” Baldwin explained. “Obviously there was competitive stuff going on in that game, and in that moment, I just let out what I felt personally.”

Clearly he let something out.

Baldwin would apologize later in the interview… sort of.

“I do regret the fact that it cost my team 15 yards, and to the fans, ultimately I apologize to anybody I offended in any way,” he said. “It wasn’t about that. I just think it was a competitive situation. So to all the 12s, all the fans, that’s not what it’s about. So I apologize to anyone if I offended you.”

“If I could go back, I’d take it back.”

Hopefully the 12s will find a way to forgive him.