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Seattle Seahawks is running back of Marshawn Lynch's dealings with the media during the days leading up to Super Bowl XLIX.

"I'm just here so I won't get fined," Lynch told during his five-minute Media Day session last Tuesday. This response was morphed into, "you know why I'm here."

On Thursday, the words were changed, but the defiance did not.

"I mean all week, I done told y'all what's up. And for some reason y'all continue to come back and do the same thing," Lynch said. "I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me, but it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face — my family, that I love — that's all that really matters to me.

"So y'all could go and make up whatever you want to make up because I don't say enough for y'all to go and put anything out on me. I'll come to y'all event. Y'all shove cameras and microphones down my throat. But y'all mad at me. And if y'all ain't mad at me, then what y'all here for?"

Lynch has been fined by the league for grabbing his crotch after scoring touchdowns against the Arizona Cardinals in the regular season and the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game.

On a radio interview "The Cook and Poni Show" on The Fan 93.7 FM in Pittsburgh, Cardinals linebacker Larry Foote said on Lynch's tactics and went as far to say that he's sending the wrong message to the youngsters in his foundation in Oakland.

"You hear in the media, he always mentions his foundation and what he likes to do for the city of Oakland," Foote asked. "I'm from the same type of urban environment that he's from and the biggest message that he's giving these kids, he might not want to admit it, is the hell with authority. ‘I don't care, fine me, I'm gonna grab my crotch, I'm gonna do it my way.' In the real world, it doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. How can you keep a job? I mean, you got these inner city kids, they don't listen to teachers, they don't listen to police officers, principals and these guys can't even keep a job because they say ‘F' authority."

Foote’s criticism is acknowledged at large in the county.

By Premji