The League returns to the small screen on September 9th and Entertainment Weekly got the chance to reveal an exclusive clip from the show’s season premiere featuring Marshawn Lynch.
Naturally, the show took full advantage of Lynch’s guest spot by essentially including a whole scene lampooning the Seahawks’ infamous decision to not hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch at the one yard line near the end of last season’s Super Bowl.
The League executive producers Jackie and Jeff Schaffer are big Seahawks fans, so the fact that they immediately drew this scene up after securing Lynch’s services for the season premiere is not a huge surprise.
“We are Seahawks season ticket-holders and we had so much fun having Marshawn on last year that we had to do it again,” said The League executive producers Jackie and Jeff Schaffer in an email. “If the Seahawks had won the Super Bowl, it was going to be a parody of the ‘I’m going to Disney World!’ ads. As you may have heard, that did not happen. So after we cried ourselves to sleep for the next month, we knew what the scene had to be about….”
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