Skittles Gives a First Taste of Its Super Bowl Ad Featuring a Town Brawl

No sign of Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch, though

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Even though Seattle Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch will have a lot of visibility on the Super Bowl playing field on Feb. 1, don't look for him in Skittles' commercial debut in the Big Game. Despite expectations, the running back won't be in the Mars brand's spot from DDB Chicago, even though he's become closely associated with the candy he's nibbled since he was a kid.

In the Super Bowl teaser below, which Skittles is releasing today on YouTube, the men and women of a dusty little U.S.

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