USAJames Bunce: can a 31-year-old Englishman help USA win the World Cup.  Lynch, who earned the nickname Beast Mode for his punishing style, was perhaps the best in the league before he retired. ”“Give a good statement or shut up,” Christie said. Hernandez, 27, is already serving a life sentence for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee.