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Since joining the Giants, Tynes and his family have lived in Clifton, New Jersey. He and his wife, Amanda, make their offseason home in the Kansas City area in Overland Park, Kansas, where their sons were born.
Tynes is the seventh Scottish-born player in NFL history and the first to have won a Super Bowl ring. Only two other British (British-born) players have won a Super Bowl: Scott McCready and Tynes' Super Bowl XLII teammate, Osi Umenyiora.
Lawrence Tynes is the son of a former Navy SEAL and a Scottish mother. He lived in Greenock and Machrihanish, Argyll until he was 10 before moving to the United States. His father, Larry, was a member of SEAL Team 2 stationed in Scotland in the early 1970s. He is currently a detective in the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's department in Milton, Florida. One of his brothers, Jason, served in the United States Army in Iraq and Kuwait. His other brother, Mark Tynes, is serving 27 years in federal prison on drug and witness intimidation charges stemming from his 2004 involvement in a plan to move 3,600 pounds (1,600 kg) of marijuana between Texas and Florida. Tynes has sought a presidential pardon to shorten or commute his brother's sentence. He has acknowledged his brother's guilt but feels the sentence was too harsh. However, during all proceedings in Mark Tynes' trial, Mark was belligerent and uncooperative. The judge who proceeded the case had parameters of which to sentence Mark, and because of his foul and unruly behavior gave Mark the maximum sentence. Tynes also enjoys soccer and supports Scottish Premier League Champions Celtic who are based in Glasgow.
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