Marshawn’s Media Day Struggles

Super Bowl XLIX is just around the corner and the hype has been as high as it ever has. The New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks both finished 14-4 leading to the biggest game in all of sports. The well known athletes all receive the most attention from the media along with publicity from all of the fans. Everyone’s favorite athlete to interview is Seahawks running back, Marshawn Lynch. Lynch is known to be a very quiet person off the field and give little to none attention to the press. He is a man of little words and has been fined in the past very heavily by not responding or not showing up to the media. As of late every reporter, radio station, sports anchor is trying to be that one special person to get this man to speak up. He’s becoming more and more famous on social media with his one or couple word phrases that seem to have everyone scratching their head. Reporters will ask him questions back and forth about his thoughts from previous games, current situations around the NFL and even his warm up music. All of his answers will be the same throughout the press conference. For example, he spent 15 minutes answering questions with, “I’m blessed.” His next press conference he responded with, “Yeah.” With his most recent showing his answers were, “You know why I’m here.”  His continued phrases are what is making news a lot funnier than they should be but with all jokes aside, Marshawn is ready to just play football.

Deflated Footballs Not The Reason For 45-7 Blowout

Sports media has a large amount of control over what readers believe day to day in the sports world. As an avid Colts fan hearing more about the deflated footballs the New England Patriots seemingly used during the AFC championship game gives me a sour taste in my mouth. Yes, this is considered cheating in any sport especially by the Patriots trying to bend the rules and find ways to win in an unethical way. Once the media had any skeptical idea about the footballs being deflated they seemingly blew up the content all over social media. The news broke out to people all across the world and many people started to hate the Patriots even more than they already do. In reality if the footballs were deflated or not a 45-7 loss is still a blow out. Yes, if the score was a lot closer this case would be a much bigger deal than it already is. Losing by 38 in the NFL is a serious kick in the behind and the Patriots could have honestly used metal balls and still have won. As researchers took a look more in depth on the advantages of these balls they found out they had little to no advantage. Deflating a football can change the way it’s gripped by a player or the way it travels through the air. This allows a receiver to catch the ball easier than normal which gives them an advantage in the end. As a quarterback this necessarily doesn’t help as the speed and rotation is slower than it would be with a properly air filled ball. Overall this case is pointless in my opinion and the media shouldn’t try and make this a bigger deal than it is. The Patriots clearly were the better team and the Colts can now enjoy their off season thinking about how to stop the run on defense for next season.