Roseanne Barr in Beast Mode
Marshawn Lynch got peppered with reporters' questions at Super Bowl media day and answered with the same phrase 29 times during five minutes. A hopeful media went away like so many deflated balls. The T-Shirt sales with the quote will soon arrive.
Marshawn Lynch is being hammered with questions at Super Bowl media day.
Marshawn sat in front of the microphones sporting his sunglasses and a backpack -- and repeated over and over again, "Hey, I'm just here so I don't get fined."
He's said it at least 20 times already.
As you probably know, the NFL just fined Lynch $20k for grabbing his crotch during a TD celebration in the NFC championship game.
Lynch is known for being reluctant to talk to the media. He was fined $50,000 by the NFL for refusing to talk to the media throughout the 2013 NFL season, which inspired fans of the Seattle Seahawks to fundraise that amount. However, the fine was subsequently pulled back in an agreement that he will be fined another $50,000 if he breaks the same rule and donates to charity the amount fundraised by Seahawks fans to pay his fine.
Lynch was fined $100,000 on November 19, 2014 for once again refusing to speak to the media. A few days later, after the Seahawks win over Arizona, he answered nearly every question from reporters with "Yeah".
On December 21, 2014 after the second Seahawk-Cardinals game, he answered nearly every question from reporters with some version of "Thanks for asking" or "I appreciate you asking."
The only people to get an "extended interview" were Deion Sanders, former teammate turned analyst Michael Robinson and Michael Silver, in which they discovered his reluctance came from his upbringing and the fact the he felt that he was "forced to do something".
Andy Warhol's Empire (1964)
Other performance Art at media day(2008):