Cam would have been proud of my screw-up.Who the fuck is Marshall Lynch?
He'd have looked at it as it rolled around.Cam would have been proud of my screw-up.
Yeah. His Conan appearance with Gronk was great.He wasn't a malcontent, he just hated talking to the media.
Why? Fuck the NFL.I generally enjoy him but announcing during the SB is super douchey.
That was hands down the funniest bit I've seen involving Lynch and my favorite part of the lead up to last year's SB. Thank goodness he was stopped at the 1 yard line last year or I might not be able to have any fond memories of him.Yeah. His Conan appearance with Gronk was great.
He was hilarious when he first came into the league. His interviews in Buffalo were awesome.He wasn't a malcontent, he just hated talking to the media.
He reportedly has Gronked it, living entirely off endorsements and saving all of his NFL earnings.Maybe he's done a comparison of the benefits of playing a few more years to the risks to his health. I expect more and more (although still a small minority) NFL players will get out early when their finances allow it.
Maybe he's done a comparison of the benefits of playing a few more years to the risks to his health. I expect more and more (although still a small minority) NFL players will get out early when their finances allow it.
He had a great one with Kenny Mayne talking about how he loved Dave and Busters or TGI Fridays or whatever shitty restaurant Willis McGahee name dropped while trashing Buffalo on his way out of town.He was hilarious when he first came into the league. His interviews in Buffalo were awesome.
Wouldnt technically Gronk have Lynch'd it since Lynch was in the league three years before Gronk? Lynch was also the main guy in Seattle helping players manager their 401k investments having setup Beast Mode Capital Funds (http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/10/marshawn-lynch-helping-seahawks-players-401k-plans)He reportedly has Gronked it, living entirely off endorsements and saving all of his NFL earnings.
https://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/marshawn-lynch-reportedly-hasnt-spent-152823197.html
I hope this is true, it is awesome if this is true, and I wish him the best.
Absolutely. But people here wouldn't know that, and as we know the world revolves around us. There was some awareness here of Gronk's frugality and intelligence, which is why I phrased it that way.Wouldnt technically Gronk have Lynch'd it since Lynch was in the league three years before Gronk? Lynch was also the main guy in Seattle helping players manager their 401k investments having setup Beast Mode Capital Funds (http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/10/marshawn-lynch-helping-seahawks-players-401k-plans)
I love the timing.I generally enjoy him but announcing during the SB is super douchey.
He had a great one with Kenny Mayne talking about how he loved Dave and Busters or TGI Fridays or whatever shitty restaurant Willis McGahee name dropped while trashing Buffalo on his way out of town.
ESPN (i know i know) did a great piece on him a couple years ago about his upbringing, how he spends a ton of time in the poor area he grew up in and talked about what happened in Buffalo. I wasn't a big Lynch fan before then, but you're right. He's just a shy good guy.Lynch is just a shy dude. I like him a lot. He was in that aquarium show Tanked and he couldn't have been a nicer guy, albeit a little weird.
Yeah, fuck the NFL.Why? Fuck the NFL.
Take attention away? It's not like people can't focus on the SB, acknowledge for two minutes that Lynch is retiring, and then go back to it. It's a football game, not the survival of the human race. Competing thoughts can pass consciousness.Yeah, fuck the NFL.
But it's douchey to take attention away from the teams in the game. Same reason Horse Face had enough class not to retire during the post game. The story should be about his teammates as much as possible and not him.
My guess is he wanted his announcement to fly under the radar so he could avoid the publicity. And it seems like it worked.Yeah, fuck the NFL.
But it's douchey to take attention away from the teams in the game. Same reason Horse Face had enough class not to retire during the post game. The story should be about his teammates as much as possible and not him.
This post isn't getting nearly as much love as it should.Maybe he saw the SoSH thread on how much he would need to retire and realized he was there.
And you could argue that by announcing when he did, Lynch pretty much guaranteed his "announcement" would be far down the sports ticker. Fitting for a shy guy to get the news out when it would be given shorter shrift.Take attention away? It's not like people can't focus on the SB, acknowledge for two minutes that Lynch is retiring, and then go back to it. It's a football game, not the survival of the human race. Competing thoughts can pass consciousness.
The NFL doesn't have the same tradition of a news blackout around their signature event that MLB does. Hell, the Conmissioner gives an annual speech three days before the big game that has almost nothing to do with the game itself. We've been talking all week about Calvin Johnson, various coaching hires, and so on. Lynch's retirement just happens to be the ancillary story that got the most play this year. (Also, his agent didn't make the announcement during the 4th quarter of the game.)People went house on Arod for opting out during the World Series. This is no different. It was a douchey move, but that doesn't make Lynch a douche. I thought his antics at the Super Bowl with the media the past few years were kind of lousy because that is his job but he does seem like a good dude. Just a shy one.
More recently, LSU's RB mill has been pretty good too, with Jeremy Hill, Alfred Blue, Spencer Ware, and Stevan Ridley, plus a WR corps of ODB, Jarvis Landry, and Brandon LaFell. Though at QB there's only Matt Flynn and Zach Mettenberger as LSU alumi.I believe Lynch was the first of a long run of excellent running backs here at Cal, many of which went on to good NFL careers. Forsett, Vereen and Anderson being the latest examples.
I'm not a big college football fan, but I thought a couple of years ago that the current Cal NFL alumni were pretty much unmatched at offensive skill positions. I think it went Aaron Rodgers at qb (which pretty much guarantees Cal would be at the top), Keenan Allen and DeSean Jackson at WR's, Tony Gonzalez at TE, and Lynch and Vereen at RB. And none of the Cal teams won anything over those years - not even a Rose Bowl appearance (although they were cheated out of a Rose Bowl in 2004 when Mack Brown appealed to voters in the coaches' poll and the rankings were then ginned up and Texas undeservedly got the bid instead).
All good points. Also isn't announcing retirement a little different than announcing that you're opting out of your $252m contract so that you can sign an even bigger one?The NFL doesn't have the same tradition of a news blackout around their signature event that MLB does. Hell, the Conmissioner gives an annual speech three days before the big game that has almost nothing to do with the game itself. We've been talking all week about Calvin Johnson, various coaching hires, and so on. Lynch's retirement just happens to be the ancillary story that got the most play this year. (Also, his agent didn't make the announcement during the 4th quarter of the game.)