A huge throng of reporters surrounded Marshawn Lynch’s Super Bowl media day podium to find out what the Seahawks running back would or wouldn’t say, and while Lynch did show up and talk for just under five minutes so as to avoid a fine from the NFL, he didn’t say much, other than to repeatedly give a very honest reason for his presence at media day.
Lynch sat down and set a timer on his phone, then told everyone in front of him, “Hey, I’m just here so I don’t I get fined. So y’all can sit here and ask all the questions you all want to, I’m going to answer with the same answer. So y’all can shoot if y’all please.”
Over the next four-plus minutes, Lynch said some variation of “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” 29 times, only diverting from that path a couple of time, once to say hi to Max Unger who was at the podium next to him, and once when someone threw him a bag of Skittles, at which point Lynch blew her a kiss and said, “you’re sexy, too.”
Even former cornerback and current NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders, who got the famous, “I’m just ‘bout that action, boss” line out of Lynch at media day last year came up empty, though Lynch did change things up slightly for Sanders, saying “I’m just here so I won’t get fined, boss.”
Lynch was courteous enough to walk down from the podium and pick up a microphone he had accidentally knocked off the table in front of him, but after returning to his seat, he looked at his phone, said “Time,” and exited stage left.
Whether that will satisfy his media requirement in the eyes of the league remains to be seen, but Lynch at least deserves credit for his honestly, if not his openness.
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