I hear NFL players saying all the time that the "NFL is a business." This is convenient when they're negotiating their contracts, but hypocritical when their employer comes down on them for getting arrested for things or in trouble/fined for failing to be in compliance with league mandated rules and regulations like dress code/attire.Marshawn Lynch may have a good back story and be a great RB, but if I were his employer I'd suspend or fire his ass (don't care how good he is). Why should he be able to not answer questions from the media when the rest of his teammates and coaches have to? And sorry Marshawn, but it is part of your job. What would happen to any one of us in the real world if we showed up to work and had to do something we didn't want to do, but said, "I'm just doing this so I won't be fined." Yeah, we'd be canned in a heartbeat. That's a bad attitude, and frankly he's putting more effort into not answering the questions and putting this act on than he is if he'd simply answer the freaking questions. For God's sake, this isn't a water boarding session or an interrogation scene out of Rambo. It's answering questions about a kid's game and your opponent in the Super Bowl and possibly deflated balls. That is unbelievable arrogance and I'm so over professional athletes demonstrating it. You are making millions of dollars to play a sport for a living. Get over yourself. And stop telling us it's "a business," but then carry yourself like an insubordinate jackass. The fans want to hear from you. The fans help pay your salary. You're basically giving us and the people that give your sport a platform for promotion (media) the middle finger.Lynch claims he doesn't want the attention and would rather keep to himself, but then he's doing Skittles commercials and wearing a hat to the Super Bowl interview he doesn't want to do and wastes everybody's time in that promotes a business he's part of, potentially making him more money. I say all of us and the people in the media should give it right back to him. If he doesn't want the attention, don't give it to him. Don't buy his jersey. Hope the media only refers to him as Seattle RB No. 24 or Seattle starting RB, not by name. See how he likes it when the media holds a camera in his face for 5-10 minutes, but doesn't ask him a single question. The reporter just keeps saying, "I'm just here so I don't get fired by ESPN."Lynch apparently is a smart guy. Time for him to start acting like it, and treating the NFL like I'm sure he'll label it when he becomes a free agent this off-season -- "like a business." This is your freaking employer. Choose to be in compliance with a good attitude or choose to work in another profession.
