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In the days before the Super Bowl in 2015, Marshawn Lynch taunted the media — and the N.F.L., which requires all players to speak to reporters before the championship game — by proclaiming, “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
It was peak Lynch: Defiant, funny, original. He got away with it, too, because he was a superb running back, a cornerstone of the Seattle Seahawks teams that made it to the Super Bowl in consecutive years.
Now Lynch is back in Seattle after an uneasy departure following the 2015 season.