“The Barbershop” is a loose, free-flowing evening talk show on 710 ESPN in Seattle, hosted by former Seahawks Pro Bowler Marcus Trufant, who is from Western Washington and still makes his home in the greater Seattle area. Thanks to his connections, Tru’s radio debut (The Barbershop initially started as a podcast) featured a coveted interview get that any media outlet would be jealous of: Marshawn Lynch. The Seahawks running back (who is a former teammate of Trufant’s) is notoriously media shy, and basically ignored the media during Super Bowl week back in February, save for a brief interaction with Deion Sanders. Trufant and his co-hosts managed to get Beast Mode to discuss his reluctance to talk to the press:
“You know, I enjoy myself, but you know, being in this position, I feel like I was never meant to be famous,” he said. “So somebody wanting to, you know, keep tabs on me and follow my every move ain’t something that I’m into. But, you know, for the love and support, you know, I appreciate that, you know, off top. But I mean, sometimes it might get a little bit out of hand with certain people. I understand the fact that they don’t see athletes that often or people you would say that’s in my position, but sh–, at the end of the day, we get up in the morning, sh–, shower and shave the same way everybody else do.
“That’s my perspective on it, but I mean, you know, it will be just like a Twitter quote, people will look at it and make their mind up on it and when they see it’ll be the same thing it was as if they didn’t see it.”
Somewhere in all that rambling I think lies an answer. You can listen to the entire ten minute interview below, which he caps off with a rousing game of “Yessir or Naw”:
[710ESPN]
