Marshawn Lynch is an idiot

[chiefs1111]

Posted by Mike Florio on January 9, 2010 8:35 AM ET
After a quiet season for Bills running back Marshawn Lynch, the man who has encountered his share of trouble looks to be in trouble yet again.

According to Lou Michel of the Buffalo News, Lynch faces allegations that he stole $20 from a woman at a TGI Friday's last month.

Let's repeat that. Marshawn Lynch, a millionaire NFL player, faces allegations that he stole $20 from a woman at a TGI Friday's last month.

Allegedly, two women were at a table at the restaurant when another member of the Bills struck up a conversation one of them. Eventually, Lynch arrived. The other woman at some point pulled out a $20 bill in preparation for paying the check.

Lynch then took the money.

His mistake was that the woman from whom he took the money is married to Buffalo Police Sgt. William Crawford.

"He takes the $20 out of her hand, and my wife says 'What are you doing?' and Lynch says "Don't worry,'" Crawford said, per the News. "When my wife's girlfriend came back to the table, she told her about it. The girlfriend approached Lynch and said, 'Give my friend her money back,' and Lynch threatened her saying 'Do you know who I am? There's going to be consequences.'

Crawford also says that he was told Bills security talked to Lynch about the incident, and that Lynch claimed that he and Crawford's wife are friends. Crawford said his wife insists she doesn't know Lynch, and Lynch's assertion prompted Crawford's wife to make an official statement to the police.

We know what you're thinking. Something feels very weird about this one. But regardless of what facts might (or might not) be percolating beneath the surface, the reality at this point is that the Crawfords seem intent on pushing the matter. Thus, an arrest -- even if there's never a conviction or a guilty plea -- could result in further discipline for Lynch, given his history with the Personal Conduct Policy.

In 2008, Lynch was accused of hit-and-run. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, and he was not suspended by the league. Last year, an arrest and conviction on a weapons charge resulted in a three-game suspension.

So Lynch's history will complicate things for him. In January 2009, Commissioner Roger Goodell explained the league's sensitivity to repeat offenders under the Personal Conduct Policy. "You can have false accusations once, maybe twice," Goodell said at his annual pre-Super Bowl press conference. "When you start getting to multiple [arrests], you're putting yourself in the wrong position, you're making the wrong decisions in the wrong places. At that point in time, you're reflecting poorly on the NFL itself, your teammates."

With the emergence of Fred Jackson, who rushed for 1,020 yards in 2009, the Bills likely having been thinking about moving on from Marshawn. The latest allegations -- regardless of what happens with them -- could be enough to nudge the team closer toward the seemingly inevitable decision that Lynch brings more problems to a franchise that already has plenty of them.


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[Dottefan]

Originally Posted by soopamanluva

Something doesn't add up. That story is missing something. A multi millionaire takes $20 from someone for no apparent reason? Sounds fishy to me. I call bs until the rest of the story comes out

This

[HotRoute]

Sounds like a bullsh*t story, I mean what he can't just write you up a check and this be done with, oh hell no to the press, I'll tell everyone of the 20 I lost. Give me a break, attention whores

[whatsmynameagain]

Originally Posted by soopamanluva

Something doesn't add up. That story is missing something. A multi millionaire takes $20 from someone for no apparent reason? Sounds fishy to me. I call bs until the rest of the story comes out

For the thrill of it hahaha

[BossChief]

He's no Lawrence Phillips, but he aspires for greatness none the less.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Give me a ****in break. Something doesn't add up here.

[LaChapelle]

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[Royal Fanatic]

Why is this story so hard to believe?

It sounds like it wasn't about the $20. It sounds like it was about Marshawn Lynch trying to be a real intimidating tough guy.

I say "it sounds like" because I wasn't there and I don't know what really happened any more than the rest of you do. But I don't see why the woman and her husband would just make up the story, and the fact that Lynch was already caught in a lie by saying that the woman is a friend of his doesn't do much for his credibility.

Any time a celebrity says "Do you know who I am", somebody ought to just beat the crap out of him.

[Rain Man]

Maybe he gets irrationally mad when he sees anything with the name Jackson on it.

Originally Posted by 58-4ever

He looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome.

Interesting that you'd say that. My uncle's family adopted an infant who had that.... He was a problem child forever. He'd stick a $.50 candybar in his pocket alongside the 20 bill he had. He'd break into houses, leave the high dollar electronics alone and raid the loose change jar. Some people are just screwed up.

Originally Posted by Royal Fanatic

Any time a celebrity says "Do you know who I am", somebody ought to just beat the crap out of him.

With a baseball bat. I hate, hate, hate that.

[SPATCH]

Daaaaaamn... That's a grimey sum bitch

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Interesting that you'd say that. My uncle's family adopted an infant who had that.... He was a problem child forever. He'd stick a $.50 candybar in his pocket alongside the 20 bill he had. He'd break into houses, leave the high dollar electronics alone and raid the loose change jar. Some people are just screwed up.

Wait a minute. He had a twenty? Was his name Marshawn?