Marshawn Lynch has been hired by Amazon Prime Video to be a component of its “Thursday Night Football” pregame, Marie Donoghue, Amazon’s vp of Global Sports Video, said on the “Marchand & Ourand Sports Media Podcast.”
Though Lynch was arrested in August and charged with DUI, Donoghue said that wasn’t why Lynch was just now starting for Amazon this Thursday, its fifth game of the season.
“I believe Marshawn desired to work through some things,” Donoghue said on the podcast. “We were already working with him. We never walked away. We just worked through some things with him and we’re excited. We will’t wait for him to hitch.”
Lynch will probably be in three to four-minute features that Amazon is asking, “‘N Yo’ City.” On Thursday, prior to the Commanders’ game on the Bears, Lynch’s first feature is him playing football with kids from Highland Park, the suburb of Chicago that was ravaged by a gunman on July 4th. The next week, Lynch will probably be feeding alligators before Saints vs. Cardinals.
Lynch, 36, was arrested in Vegas this summer. Based on records obtained by TV station KSNV, the Las Vegas Municipal online court records said that Lynch faces charges of “driving under the influence, failure/refusing to give up proof of security, use of an unregistered vehicle and failure to drive in a travel lane.”
The Post first reported Amazon’s interest in Lynch in January.
Marshawn Lynch has been hired by Amazon Prime Video to be a component of its “Thursday Night Football” pregame, Marie Donoghue, Amazon’s vp of Global Sports Video, said on the “Marchand & Ourand Sports Media Podcast.”
Though Lynch was arrested in August and charged with DUI, Donoghue said that wasn’t why Lynch was just now starting for Amazon this Thursday, its fifth game of the season.
“I believe Marshawn desired to work through some things,” Donoghue said on the podcast. “We were already working with him. We never walked away. We just worked through some things with him and we’re excited. We will’t wait for him to hitch.”
Lynch will probably be in three to four-minute features that Amazon is asking, “‘N Yo’ City.” On Thursday, prior to the Commanders’ game on the Bears, Lynch’s first feature is him playing football with kids from Highland Park, the suburb of Chicago that was ravaged by a gunman on July 4th. The next week, Lynch will probably be feeding alligators before Saints vs. Cardinals.
Lynch, 36, was arrested in Vegas this summer. Based on records obtained by TV station KSNV, the Las Vegas Municipal online court records said that Lynch faces charges of “driving under the influence, failure/refusing to give up proof of security, use of an unregistered vehicle and failure to drive in a travel lane.”
The Post first reported Amazon’s interest in Lynch in January.
