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Asked his reaction to the whole world getting a peek at his sideline ritual, Lynch initially wasn’t sure what to say. Then he offered, “I think people got it mixed up, like it’s a prize that I get Skittles for scoring a touchdown.”
Lynch paused and heaved a sigh before adding, “If you want to know the truth, you’ve got to ask my mama.”
So Delisa Lynch, what is the truth behind what has become the Skittles phenomenon?
“When Marshawn was 12 or 13, we’d go to his games and I’d always have little candies in my purse,” Lynch’s mama explained. “Before the game, I would say, ‘Here Marshawn, come and get you power pellets.’
“I would give him a handful of Skittles and say, ‘Eat ’em up, baby. They’re going to make you run fast and they’re going to make you play good.”
Delisa Lynch then laughed. Part of her joy was just retelling the story that so few actually know; part of it was the bewilderment she shares with her son over the way the story was mangled last season.
“So that’s where it comes from,” she said. “I don’t know about that touchdown-reward story, because everybody was saying this and everybody was saying that. But I would just say, ‘They don’t even know the half of it.’
“The real is story is, I would give him Skittles before the game when he was playing Pop Warner.”
That, of course, was just the introductory chapter in the saga that has become Lynch munching Skittles. It continued during his career at Oakland Technical High School. It carried over to his days at the University of California at Berkeley. It has followed him to Seattle and the Seahawks