MUST READ Beast Mode article

[c_hawkbob]

In Seattle, on Fridays preceding a home game, Lynch plucks a kid from an impoverished background from the city and brings him and his family to the Seahawks’ practice facility. Lynch, who isn’t married and doesn’t have kids, shows his guests around the locker room and introduces them to coaches. He won’t allow the team’s media relations staff to invite a news outlet to witness or write about his interactions with fans.

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/12/09/marshawn- ... hawks-nfl/

[kalibane]

So he's doing actual meaningful community outreach with fans and making an impact in his community but he gets fined $100,000.00 because he won't sit at a podium and spout off platitudes.

Roger Goodell doesn't get it on SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many levels. He is so lucky the NFL is a freight train. Can you imagine the state the respective sports would be in if he was Commissioner of the NBA, NHL or MLB?

[monkey]

I mean I know I'm gonna get got, but I'm gonna get mine more than I get got though.

Yeah.

[c_hawkbob]

So he's doing actual meaningful community outreach with fans and making an impact in his community but he gets fined $100,000.00 because he won't sit at a podium and spout off platitudes.

Roger Goodell doesn't get it on SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many levels. He is so lucky the NFL is a freight train. Can you imagine the state the respective sports would be in if he was Commissioner of the NBA, NHL or MLB?

Goodell is all about perception, and Marshawn is the polar opposite. People need to realize that actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately Beast can be his own worst enemy in that regard in that he not only doesn't blow his own horn about the good that he does but (and I think this comes from caring about the individuals that he interacts with and wants to keep the experience about them instead of about him) won't even allow the team's public relations staff to blow that horn for him.

It's good that a reporter, especially one that as he'd been snubbed in his attempt to ask Marshawn his meager list of questions had every reason and opportunity to write a scathing look at everything the world perceives to be wrong about Beast, instead did his job. He got the real story of the man from those around him and wrote an honest piece.

Pretty impressive journalism. Pretty impressive story, about a pretty impressive guy.

[NorthHawk]

It's an interesting article about a complex man.
A good story and it really tells a lot about how the locker room feels about Marshawn Lynch and how little we on the outside know about what goes on behind the curtain.

[Hawk Sista]

I'm pretty social and good w/ a mike. I sorta have to be w/ my job. When I go to functions...a lot of people want to interact w/ me and talk about work...and I do. All this to say it is my job to be "on" always and it's draining. & I am just the Parks Director of a mid sized City. I would NEVER want to be in the limelight the way athletes, stars etc. are. I cannot imagine the continuous in your face need to know, cameras, people wanting from you, never being able to go to the store w/o creating a scene and on-n-on.

Marshawn is shy. I wish people would read this article and just let the dude be.

Great article - thanks for the link.

[Oly]

It's really too bad that sports journalism is in such a sorry state that when a really good article like this one comes along we are all floored. So it goes.

But, yeah, that was one of the better athlete profiles I've read in a long, long time. Marshawn is everything you want in a star, IMO. Doesn't want the limelight and is good, generous, and genuine. Couldn't be prouder to have him as a Hawk.