Marshawn Lynch spoke enthusiastically to reporters, when he played high school football.
In a 2003 video clip with a Bay Area broadcaster, Lynch says, "if my lineman weren't so good — Oh my God, I don't know what [I would] do. And me, being as broke as I am, I'm about to find a way to treat my linemen."
Maxpreps.com reports that Lynch rushed for 233 yards, scored six touchdowns in a 55-47 win over Skyline in the Oakland Section finals at the Oakland Coliseum. He reportedly finished with 2,097 yards and 33 touchdowns that season.
After Lynch's Media Day script "I'm here so I don't get fined," he fired back at his critics Thursday.
"I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me but ... It don't matter what y'all think, what what y'all say about me became when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face -- my family -- that I love ... that's all that matters to me," he said.
>>Click here to read about all the fines Lynch faced this season.
At Media Day last year, Lynch's reclusiveness became a major story. Lynch appeared for 6 1/2 minutes, left the arena, and then returned to a "mixed zone" the NFL created forplayers not on podiums or in microphone-equipped speaking areas at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
