Marshawn Lynch's High School Photo

About

Marshawn Lynch's High School Photo refers to a picture of NFL running back Marshawn Lynch taken while he was a student at Oakland Technical High School. After the picture aired as part of a Monday Night Football broadcast, Twitter users joked about how the high school-aged Lynch looked very different from current-day Lynch, as the former appeared very clean-cut and friendly while the current-day Lynch has a reputation for being a very tough running back.

Origin

On September 10th, the Oakland Raiders played the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football in Oakland, California. During ESPN's broadcast of the game, they showed a picture of Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch's high school photo from Oakland Technical High School (shown below).

Spread

After the picture aired, Twitter users were quick to make jokes about it. Sports Illustrated tweeted "Please make high school Marshawn Lynch a meme," as well as a "Me on Twitter / Me on Facebook" joke about the comparison (shown below). Both tweets gained over 300 retweets and roughly 1,000 likes.

Other popular examples of jokes about Lynch's photo include a tweet by @TheCheckdown which made a similar joke to Sports Illustrated, gaining over 2,800 retweets and 7,000 likes (shown below, left) and a joke by @BigHeadBS that gained over 110 retweets and 410 likes (shown below, right).

The spread of jokes was covered by multiple sports and internet-focused websites, including The Daily Dot,^[1] The Root,^[2] SFGate,^[3] and others.

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