Oakland native and former NFL star Marshawn Lynch commemorated his newfound investment in a professional hockey team as only he could.
By doing doughnuts on a Zamboni.
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The NHL's Seattle Kraken on Monday announced that Lynch, who starred on football fields in the East Bay as a running back at Oakland Technical High School and UC Berkeley before spending most of his 12-year NFL career with the Seattle Seahawks, had invested in the expansion franchise.
Lynch, who invested in the team alongside Seattle recording artist Macklemore, fittingly appeared in a Kraken-produced video taking an ice resurfacer for a spin as if it was an injury cart at Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium.
This isn't Lynch's first involvement with the Kraken, either, as he announced one of the team’s selections in last summer’s expansion draft. Lynch's reference to forward Calle Jarnkrok as "the boi boi Calle" gave the Swede an instantly memorable nickname that followed him to Canada after a midseason trade to the Calgary Flames.
Lynch is also a partial owner of the Oakland Roots, a men's professional soccer team playing in the second-tier USL Championship, and co-owner of the Bay Area Panthers, an indoor football team currently playing in its first season.
The 35-year-old, who also played for the Oakland Raiders for two seasons before the team moved to Las Vegas, said in a release on Monday that, "as a young hyena I always dreamed of playing on a professional team but owning one is something special."
Lynch is keeping busy outside of sports ownership and entrepreneurship as well, as a number of Hollywood trades reported last week that he had joined the cast of the film "Bottoms," a raunchy high school comedy set to go into production later this spring. Lynch also appeared as himself in "Murderville," the improvised crime comedy Netflix released earlier this year.
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