Marshawn Lynch Went to Houston, Scotland, Instead of Houston, Texas, for Skittles' Super Bowl Campaign

He did make a lot of friends, though

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They play a very different kind of football in Scotland. But Marshawn Lynch seemed to make friends there anyway when he visited recently as part of Skittles’ Super Bowl campaign.

The retired Super Bowl champion, who has been doing offbeat Skittles ads for years (he’s a longtime vocal fan of the candies), went to visit the town of Houston in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. The Super Bowl is being played in the more familiar Houston—which provides the hook for Lynch to hang with the locals, learn to bagpipes and more.

This explains the recent

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