Back before the AAF would go belly-up, the league would hold a Draft in November where players would realize their dream of playing for an upstart football league, or at least give them the exposure to get them into the NFL or back into the NFL.
As luck would have it, Marshawn Lynch would be out in Vegas during this process, so he decided to show up uninvited. Of course, nobody objected to this.
The powers to be saw an opportunity to grow the league, so they approached Lynch for an interview in exchange for thousands. He agreed, but that’s when Lynch made a strange request.
“Another story that spread far across the AAF offices has Marshawn Lynch crashing the league’s quarterback draft last November at the Luxor casino in Las Vegas. According to one employee, Lynch, whose cousin Josh Johnson was the first pick in that draft, and who is notoriously media-averse, agreed to do a two-minute interview for the Alliance at that event in exchange for $5,000. But when a check was presented to Lynch, he asked that his money be delivered instead in quarters—which AAF co-founder Charlie Ebersol took seriously. In the end, 20,000 quarters were delivered to Lynch’s room and the interview apparently took place . . . but no one ever saw it. It didn’t air.”
$5K in quarters is something Lynch likely has in the cushion of one of his couches.
