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Whataburger trolls Marshawn Lynch’s press conference

ByCM Towle|

Whataburger takes advantage of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch’s newest short answer for a little self-promo on Twitter.

For all the trouble that Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch seems to get into with the NFL for not answering questions or not being available to the media, the media and just about everyone else seems to have plenty of words and paper for his short answers.

It’s almost like they’re getting entire stories about Lynch, even though he answers their questions with things like “thanks for asking” and “yeah” and on Tuesday, it was “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

See what I did there? The media’s getting stories, and lots of ’em, from absolutely nothing, and yet, for some reason, they still want him to say more.

Whataburger wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun with a normal interview where Lynch talks about execution and hard work.

I’m just here so I can use execution and hard work to get some fries, sir. Nah, that doesn’t really work now does it?

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Like ESPN pointed out earlier on Tuesday, Lynch’s silence and hilarious one-liners have literally made him the league’s most popular running back. More media swarm around him to get the one sentence or one word they’ll be basing their stories on than anyone else.

A few writers have tried to portray him as a jerk for not answering their questions, but that hasn’t gone over very well.

"When he barely spoke to the press during last year’s media day, inspiring one writer to say fans see him as “a pampered brat,” a SportsNation poll found that 87 percent of respondents didn’t object to Lynch’s behavior. A few weeks ago, ESPN reporter Darren Rovell asked his followers if Lynch should be obliged to provide the media with “meaningful answers.” More than 1,000 people responded, and 83 percent of them said no. (via Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine)"

Somehow the less Lynch says, the more he gets talked about. Maybe it’s a ploy on his part, to show that it hardly matters what he says or doesn’t say, the media will still write their stories. It wasn’t always like that though.

When Lynch first came to Seattle, he was plenty talkative, there’s even a transcript from his first press conference. A real one that goes on for about a page.

Further proof that this is just Lynch’s newest persona and it’s getting him more attention than ever.

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