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Seahawks icon Marshawn Lynch conducting a symphony is even better than you imagined

Before Thursday night's Texans-Bills game, Seahawks' legend Marshawn Lynch conducted the Houston symphony on Prime network.
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During his legendary career with the Seattle Seahawks, Marshawn Lynch ignored cameras and microphones like the plague and ran with a violent style that resembled a hard-rock mosh pit.

Safe to say that in his post-playing career, "Beast Mode" has mellowed. These days he's a prominent TV pitch man and - don't look now - a symphony conductor.

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While his former team spent Thursday preparing for what should be a cakewalk game Sunday against the lowly Titans in Nashville, Lynch was again spreading his post-football wings as a contributor on Prime's Thursday Night Football.

On the streaming network's pre-game show before the Texans beat the Buffalo Bills, Lynch visited the Houston symphony. As only he can, Lynch made the musical group his own.

He referred to his "baton" as a "Happy Potter stick," and then boasted about once playing the trumpet though he is now clueless about reading music. With a little instruction, in no time Lynch was movin' and groovin' and leading the symphony in the playing of the TNF theme.

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Lynch may just wind up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After this performance, who knows?, he may have a second career as a guest conductor in symphonies around the country.

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Marshawn Lynch | Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images

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Richie Whitt
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Richie Whitt has been a sports media fixture in Dallas-Fort Worth since graduating from UT-Arlington in 1986. His career is highlighted by successful stints in print (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer), TV (NBC5) and radio (105.3 The Fan). During his almost 40-year tenure, he's blabbed and blogged on events ranging from Super Bowls to NBA Finals to World Series to Stanley Cups to Olympics to Wimbledons to World Cups. Whitt has been covering the NFL since 1989, and in 1993 authored The 'Boys Are Back, a book chronicling the Dallas Cowboys' run to Super Bowl XXVII.

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