“What do you think you missed not having a dad around?”

Marshawn Lynch, the grumpy, often-fined National Football League star for the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, was asked that question. Lynch, raised on the mean streets of Oakland, Calif., by a single mother, said: “Nothing. My mama played both parts.”

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