Imagine the firestorm if he skipped the game. I want it to happen so badly!

This is something that many sports reporters do (NBA sideline reporters are particularly noticeable). They will say a few lines about something related to the game without actually asking anything and simply expecting the interviewee to pick up and start talking about it. They sound like grade school students. For…

I think it's telling that the first person starts rambling for five minutes and then goes "I don't actually have a question, but could you talk about what I just talked about?"

I think this is clearly an issue... in almost every presser he's at, his face is at least partially covered. Instead of giving him some room or thinking "hmm, these interviews might be extremely stressful for Marshawn. Maybe we should back off," the media just calls him a clown.

Serious. He got burned pretty badly by the early coverage of his career and has wisely decided that saying as little as possible is the easiest way not to get in trouble. He absolutely will talk to reporters and stuff, see his Vice interview if you haven't, but he really wants to do it on his own terms and in a place…

I said it once and i'll say it again, it seems only white males are getting upset because he isn't answering their question. It is an act of defiance and it is rubbing them the wrong way, and I love it.

Considering he said he would be willing to do an interview about this charity work, he is being very serious.

Columnists seeking fodder for their next article: Pontificate on the NFL and its media members having no regard for those who are likely struggling to deal with Social Anxiety Disorder.

He should hire a spokesperson to sit and say shit to the reporters. That would make them more upset that they would have to go through someone to get to him. It would make for great articles and news reports!

Man, reporters are just like children or ex's that can't get a hint. They can't get what they want so they stomp their feet and keep demanding the same thing over and over. Just move onto a different player.

You obviously have no real comprehension of the term "Hypocrisy".

He talks to reporters fine when it's on his terms. Hell, he did a special with ESPN about his close knit relationship to his home town (Oakland). Endorsing products is done on his terms, and does not require him to be FORCED to answer stupid questions.

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I just can't stop thinking about how stupid this is. He seems like a reasonable Dude and has explained why he doesn't like talking to the media. And yet here they are, thinking he owes them a damn thing. The truth is that the NFL has outgrown it's need for media. It's such a massive behemoth that games could be played…

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.

I'm just commenting here so I don't get fined.

A competent agent... which his parents fired.

They doubtlessly believed in their own minds that they were entitled to it. They drove him to all his games, they paid for his equipment, he's just a kid. That's a pathetic excuse, granted, but I suspect Johnson isn't the only victim of parents who believed they were entitled to their golden goose.

And clearly he was willing to share the money with them. They could have been set for life if they had been good parents, but now they're cut off and possible facing civil charges. Morons.

Oh please. If someone handed me even $10,000 when I was 21 there was no way I would have managed it correctly. And probably the first thing I would have done would have asked my dad "What would be the smart thing to do with this?" I think that in Hockey and Baseball and to a lesser extent Football we tend to forget…

I cannot even conceive of the greed necessary to attempt to steal everything your child has. And this goes a step further by stealing everything he has and a lot of stuff he doesn't have yet. Un-fucking-believable.

Impressed with their ability to enrich themselves on the backs of others and to exploit a professional hockey player relentlessly, Gary Bettman has offered the Johnsons an expansion franchise.