Seahawks players have their “thing.” Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has beast mode

Seahawks players have their “thing.”

Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has beast mode, Skittles and a distaste for the media. Quarterback Russell Wilson visits children at the hospital and has a good relationship with God and, it seems, defensive end Michael Bennett borrows police officers’ bicycles when he’s feeling happy.

Bennett did just that, for the second time in two weeks, when he borrowed Federal Way police officer John Stray’s bicycle at the Seahawks Super Bowl XLIX send-off parade on Sunday.

“While I was in a line of officers, I saw Mr. Bennett get off the plane. He saw me and he ran toward me and as soon as he ran toward me I broke into a smile,” Stray recalled in a phone interview. “I put two and two together.”

Bennett first started the trend of “borrowing” a Seattle police officer’s bicycle after the Seahawks won the NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers on Jan. 18.

A joy ride, if you will.

Stray was part of a bike unit that assisted with the parade, which stretched from the Seahawks training facility, the VMAC, in Renton to the SeaTac airport. Stray’s assignment was to stay posted on International Boulevard near the Delta Air Lines terminal.

Stray said Bennett asked him politely if he could borrow Stray’s bike, to which he happily complied.

Bennett rode a little lap around the buses and returned it to Stray, who then had his photo taken with Bennett.

Stray said the news broke on Twitter somehow and several high school students at Todd Beamer High School, where he is a school resource officer, came up to him and asked about his encounter with the Seahawks player.

“It was kind of fun — it was really fun,” Stray said. “He was a really nice guy.”

Stray has been a Seahawks fan for “years and years.”

The Seattle Seahawks will play the New England Patriots in the NFL’s Super Bowl XLIX at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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