Happy Monday and happy back to real life. Right about now we’re feeling like we should be kicking off work the way that NFL superstar Marshawn Lynch used to: with a shot or two of Hennessy. Seriously!

Marshawn's pregame superstition involved a shot of what?! ?

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Via TMZ:

Beast Mode revealed his secret pre-game ritual during an interview with Peyton Manning … playing off his pre-game drinking routine as no big deal.

“My superstition was that I needed to have maybe a shot … a shot and half … before every game,” Lynch said on ESPN’s “Peyton’s Places.”

Peyton asked Marshawn to clarify — saying, “[A shot] of … ???”

“Hennessy,” Lynch replied … “Whatchu mean ‘of?'”

Manning asked where Lynch where he would get the booze — maybe from a bar in the stadium during his run with the Seahawks?

“Nah, the bar’s in my backpack,” Lynch said.

The NFL has long banned alcohol from locker rooms — so, if Marshawn is telling the truth (and there’s no reason to suggest he’s lying), it seems the boozy ritual would violate the NFL’s policy.

But, as Marshawn also pointed out during the show, he got fined so much during his playing days, the NFL would send him a weekly invoice!