When Marshawn Lynch was drafted by the Buffalo Bills, his mother Delisa was concerned that people would judge him based on his appearance. "They see the gold teeth and the dreads and they automatically think here comes a thug or a bad guy and...and he's really not," she told ESPN.com in a 2015 interview. As she suspected, Lynch was pulled over so consistently that he contacted the chief of police in the city of Hamburg, N.Y. to complain about the way he was being treated.

"I was paranoid to the point where every time I saw a police officer, I pulled over to the side of the road for them to come and start to talk to me," Lynch said. "It just wasn't working out. And then with not playing and getting carries, I mean, it probably was just time for a new scene."

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