Marshawn Lynch notoriously is not a fan of the media. He doesn't like doing interviews and has often skipped mandatory sessions with the media throughout his NFL career, leading to fines. This led him to his famous catchphrase during Super Bowl 49, "I'm just here so I don't get fined."

However, despite knowing all of this, the now-defunct Alliance of American Football still did all they could to get Lynch to talk for two minutes. According to a report from Sports Illustrated, Lynch required $5,000 for a two-minute chat. The AAF agreed, but then Lynch threw another curveball at them.

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From SI:

Another story that spread far across the AAF offices has Marshawn Lynch crashing the league’s quarterback draft last November at the Luxor casino in Las Vegas. According to one employee, Lynch, whose cousin Josh Johnson was the first pick in that draft, and who is notoriously media-averse, agreed to do a two-minute interview for the Alliance at that event in exchange for $5,000. But when a check was presented to Lynch, he asked that his money be delivered instead in quarters — which AAF co-founder Charlie Ebersol took seriously. In the end, 20,000 quarters were delivered to Lynch’s room and the interview apparently took place ... but no one ever saw it. It didn’t air.

A few things:

1. It's absolutely remarkable Charlie Ebersol didn't take the hint, and actually went to the bank to get 20,000 quarters. What does 20,000 quarters even look like? A roll of quarters consists of 40 quarters, which is $10 at face value. That means Ebersol got 2,000 rolls of quarters to give to Lynch.

2. The interview didn't even air. How do you go through the trouble of getting 20,000 quarters, but not go through the trouble of uploading the interview to YouTube? Does this footage even exist? Did the cameraperson forget to hit record? Did they leave the camera lens on? Forget to turn the audio on?

This is a very minor incident in the larger scheme of the AAF's failures — but it's still a hilarious story.