Question: How much does Mars, the company that owns Skittles, pay Marshawn Lynch every year to endorse their product? Whatever it is, IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
Over the last year or so, we've seen Lynch train with Skittles, and we've also seen him jump into a gigantic pit of them to help get his favorite candy some press. But a short time ago, we came across this video and, OMG, it is amazing. It's a five-minute video that features Lynch joining a salesman on the set of the EVINE Live home shopping network this morning in order to try and sell—you guessed it—Skittles. And while this had the potential to be really weird—especially after Lynch's co-host Allison Waggoner called him "Big Daddy"—Lynch more than carried the segment by insinuating that he is "intimate" with Skittles and then taking it from there. He stepped right into his role and nailed it.
Again, we hope Lynch is being well compensated for all of this. This is too good.
If you like this, we recommend going back to check out the Sneaker Shopping segment we did with Beast Mode last month.
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