Watch Will Ferrell present fellow SNL alum Jason Sudeikis with a Peabody Award for Ted Lasso

“A seemingly homespun and loquacious American football coach from Kansas is hired to run a London ‘football’ team – soccer, of course, a sport about which he knows nothing.

Those who typically would be treated as minor or marginalized characters such as Keely, the soccer star’s model girlfriend, and Nate the Great, the diminutive South Asian locker room assistant, become significant change agents of Ted’s philosophy – the Lasso Way – that when we ‘BELIEVE, all manner of positive things will happen.

We hope that we can all put a little of this Ted Lasso vibe in our everyday lives and you’ve certainly put a pep in our step.

This year, Peabody winners are being named across major social media channels beginning Monday through Thursday.

For more on Ted Lasso and our “99 Ways to Spend 99 Days” summer guide, order the July issue of Entertainment Weekly or find it on newsstands beginning June 18.

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