RENTON, Wash. -- A lot’s been made of it, especially in San Francisco, about how Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and cornerback Richard Sherman ate turkey legs at a table on the 49ers logo at Levi's Stadium right after Seattle's 19-3 victory on Thanksgiving night.

In the view of many 49ers fans, which has been expressed on radio shows in the Bay Area, Wilson and Sherman were being disrespectful and rubbing it in.

Wilson wants to clear the air. It wasn’t their idea.

“I think NBC had set it up for us to sit wherever.” Wilson said. “I didn’t know. You just kind of go where everybody directs you. You don’t think about that kind of stuff. It was a battle on Thanksgiving night and we just played a great team."

They weren’t trying to show up their division rivals.

“It was nothing about trying to embarrass anybody," Wilson said. “We have tons of respect for the 49ers and what they’re about and all the championships they’ve won in the past, and who they are now.”