My Dinner with Marshawndre

Who do Seahawks fans want to have dinner with?

In last week’s survey asking Seahawks fans who they would most like to have dinner with, Marshawn Lynch’s name came up 37 times, which is a hefty 16% of you. Well, technically it came up 36 times, with one of you either accidentally (or cleverly) calling him “Marshawn Lunch”.

Here were some of the other most popular answers:

• Kam Chancellor

• Bobby Wagner

• Doug Baldwin

• John Schneider

• Kenny Easley

• Pete Carroll

• Richard Sherman

• Steve Largent

• Tyler Lockett

In fact, Carroll’s name came up 39 times, even more than Marshawn, but I can’t improve upon the headline “My Dinner with Marshawndre” in any way, shape, or form. Except maybe it should have been My Dinner with Marsh-andre?

Largent was the third-most popular answer at 31 times, including one person who voted that Largent was 1b to Carroll’s 1a.

Astoundingly — although I guess it shouldn’t surprise us at this point — Russell Wilson’s name came up just ONCE. This is where we are at with the franchise’s only Super Bowl-winning quarterback in history. Actually, Ciera’s name came up as often as Russ!

Some other answers:

• Dan Doornink (3 times)

• Brian Bosworth (4)

• Chuck Knox (3)

• Cortez Kennedy (3)

• Dave Krieg (3)

• Paul Allen (3)

• Walter Jones (3)

• Jim Zorn (4 times, but also Jim “Zoran” came up once)

• Ken Behring’s name was mentioned twice and both times it was because the person wanted to spit on him

• Luke Willson (surprisingly twice)

• Mike Macdonald (only twice)

• Nick Bellore (2)

• Shaun Alexander (2)

• Earl Thomas (2)

What would you want to say to or ask your dinner guest? Put it in the comments!

There were also some interesting one-time only answers:

• Cliff Avril

• Devon Witherspoon

• Chris Carson

• Efren Herrera

• Jack Patera

• John Rhattigan

• K.J. Wright

• Mack Strong

• Malik McDowell

• “None”

• “Rabes”

• Ray Roberts

• Rufus Porter

• Warren Moon

• and “Gilden” Tate (that’s how they spelled it)

Dinner with any stranger can be awkward, so hopefully the food is good and interesting enough to create a conversation topic on its own. Any Seattle restaurant ideas or tips that you want to share?

Seaside Joe Reading List

The other day I shared your movie recommendations (including Slow Horses, which I didn’t know at the time is actually a TV show and not a movie) so let’s move onto your book recs…apologies in advance if any of these are not actually books or if I accidentally overlooked your answer.

Although it took me much longer to also add an Amazon link to all of these, I felt like the recommendations could be worthless if you didn’t have easy access to each of them.

• The Legend of Drizzt

• Infinite Jest

• Chop Wood, Carry Water (apparently also rec’d by Bobby Wagner)

• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Safety

• The Thrawn books (Star Wars)

• The Problem with Pain

• Master and Commander (author Patrick O’Brien rec’d several times over)

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (the novel, the TV series, and the movie)

• How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

• The Great Dissenter

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin)

• Watership Down

• Beartown

• The Power of Now (rec’d twice, but three times if you include me)

• The Iron Prince

• Lord of the Rings books

• Mindset Secrets for Winning

• Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos books

• Day of the Triffids

• The Bricklayer

• Manon of the Spring trilogy

• The End of the World is Just the Beginning

• Apple in China

• A Separate Peace

• Jude the Obscure

• The Name of the Rose

• Red Notice by Bill Browder

• Freezing Order also by Bill Browder

• Hoops Heist

• In the Mouth of Madness (the book)

• A Gentleman in Moscow

• Lonesome Dove (the book)

• Pillars of the Earth

• Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

• Catcher in the Rye

• The Silo Series Boxed Set

• The Comfort Crisis

• Murderbot (books)

• Extreme Ownership: How Navy SEALs Lead and Win

• Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian

• Cahokia Jazz

• Nexus

• Meditations

• Long Way Round

• W.E.B. Griffin books

• Red Rising

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions

• Everything Sad is Untrue

• The Devil in the White City

• Stranger in a Strange Land

• Pow! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Power of Surprise

• The Expanse (books)

• Take Your Eye Off the Ball: How to Watch Football

• River of Doubt

• The Devils

• Fearless

• Paper Tiger

• The Black Swan

• Tripwire

• Dune

• The Fourth Turning

Thank you for the recs and I’m glad that’s now over. If you end up reading any of these books based on the rec, please let us know!

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