Before defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh started playing in Super Bowls, he would sit in the back of his mother’s food cart, making lemonade.
Suh, who grew up in Portland and still returns for a portion of the off-season, would spend summer afternoons watching his mother prepare jerk chicken and red beans and rice, chatting with customers, helping set up and close down the cart. He was the son of two strong home cooks: His mother — originally from Spanish Town, Jamaica — could knock out a mean curry chicken, though he preferred his Cameroonian father’s plantains. Suh, now a hulking six-foot-four mass of muscle, was born to play
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