Morning Update: Who bought commercials in today’s Super Bowl

Miranda Ward

February 2, 2015 8:21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hl9YWLyn4

AdWeek: This Ridiculous and Charming Super Bowl Ad for Avocados Explains a Lot About the World

If your country could have recruited its plants and animals like football talent in the Earth’s earliest days, what would you have picked? A sleepy sloth? A scrappy lemur? Some … wheat?

That’s the question posed in Sunday’s oddly amusing Super Bowl ad for Avocados From Mexico. Created by GSD&M, the spot features football greats Doug Flutie and Jerry Rice providing comentary for the “First Draft Ever.”

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.