Towards the end when they start making fun of him, he says "It's a new song", one reporter says "what kind of beat does that have?" And they laugh amongst themselves.

My head literally exploded reading that tweet. I am a headless corpse, driven purely by muscle memory to only say this one thingslxnslabxirnalx

Then no one would consume their product and they'd lose what little bit of relevance they still had.

Goodell: "Marshawn, tell us, how does it feel to be a part of the first team in 10 years to repeat winning the Super Bowl?"

I think Mr. Murphy meant that if not for the NFL and NFL players the media members would be working as parking lot attendants for 8 dollars an hour.

Agreed.

Let us all be honest - fantasy football, HD TVs and an agreeable season structure have had a larger impact on the ascendancy of the sport/ability for teams to make money than whether someone says "It was a tough game but I knew we could do it if we played as a team" 30 fucking times to the AP.

If the Seahawk's…

... and Brian Murphy would still be wishing he was one of those guys making $8 an hour playing parking lot football, harboring anger against anyone with athletic talent, and earning a cool $5.50 an hour if you combine his writing shitty articles with $0.25 per dry handjob supplementary income.

Who watches sports because of the post game interviews?

If players stopped being accessible to media, how long before interest in the games themselves started to dissipate?

None. I've been a sports fan my whole life and could not point to one locker room sound clip from a Dodger or Charger that has made me go, "This is absolutely neccesary for me to be a fan".

So sportswriters would stop writing about the game if they didn't get their canned post-game platitudes? I call bullshit. This dynamic the NFL has set up, where everyone is required to be a good soldier and spend x number of minutes repeating themselves ad infinitum, is a relatively new phenomenon. Professional sports…

some players like the spotlight, some players don't. The media circlejerk over him not speaking is fucking sad and tired already. It probably also doesn't help that it was only a year ago that Sherman had no problem speaking to the media and dragged over coals for it.

But his teammates talk to the media. So your point is moot. A lot more guys are interested in making money than not making money so a league wide silence doesn't seem to be in the cards. This all just a bunch of hullabaloo about nothing.

That Seattle-based beat writers have grown to love Marshawn, despite his reticence to talk to them and despite having jobs far more reliant on Seattle players' quotes than your normal sportswriter, says volumes.

Really???? Yeah, I don't deny that marketing and media coverage has played a large role in making the NFL the money-generating juggernaut that it currently is but…who the fuck follows post-game coverage and questions besides members of the media?

pass

Lol.

nah.

nah.

[crickets. yea.]