Marshawn Lynch says he has joined the ownership group of a new professional arena football team that will call Oakland, California, home, starting next spring.
Lynch, speaking to The Mercury News, said the idea and opportunity to help keep football in the city was born when he was watching his brother, Davonte Sapp-Lynch, play in an Indoor Football League game earlier this year in Arizona.
"I went to go check my brother out and I kind of ran into them after the game," Lynch said of co-owner Roy Choi (no relation to the celebrity chef) and team president Scott McKibben.