I Wont Get A Better Christmas Gift Than Having Marshawn Lynch Press Conferences Back

The best. Simply the best. Folks, he’s still got his fastball. Merry New Year, absolutely not a phrase. Well, it wasn’t until now. You wish me anything other than a Merry New Year around the 31st I’ll take it as a sign of disrespect and will slap you with a white glove. I really don’t care what Marshawn does on the field over these next few weeks. Anything he gives us in terms of football production is merely a bonus. I’m just glad we have one of the great natural entertainers back in the spotlight if even for a brief moment.

PS – It’s 1 am. I always get sentimental around the holidays but I’m writing this to a very specific type of person. There are people working right now. Are they the most important jobs, doesn’t matter. Folks are out, making a living, wishing they were home with their families like the rest of us. Five years ago that was me, sitting in an apartment building in Allston at the front desk for $10/hour, eyes darting back and forth between Twitter and the clock just waiting to get home to smoke and wait for the afternoon to roll around so I could spend a few hours with my parents before I clocked back in. Most days it’s easy to go through the motions, but days like today fucking stunk. You feel trapped, stuck on the wheel, with no idea how to get off. The holidays are to serve as a break, but not everyone has the luxury of getting that break. A few people in this luxury building I worked in would give me a card, say thank you, maybe throw $20 in there. Others don’t even make eye contact like I was fucking Medusa ready to freeze them in their tracks. I’ll always appreciate those who made days like this suck a little less. Those who made it harder deserve bird flu, and once that’s cured, swine flu. I write this because that’s what this video reminded me of: a time when a video like this truly would have been the highlight of a depressing ass Christmas. I nearly died in a car accident at 3 AM on July 5, 2015, because I was coming home from another holiday shift. I got out, I’m lucky, and eternally grateful for where I’m at in life because of this company. I hope I never forget the people sitting behind a desk in a lobby counting down the seconds, standing behind a register at a gas station waiting for their relief, driving a truck across state lines listening to a podcast to make it feel like someone else is in the car with them. I’m not going to tell you it gets better, you’re not all funny and wildly handsome like me. I am going to say thank you, though. You are appreciated. And you’ll be home soon. Merry New Year.