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.”

In the ad, a white-robed, bearded figure (is that two God cameos in one Super Bowl?) announces which creatures and species of vegetation will go to the world’s various countries. You can probably guess what Mexico picks, but here’s how it all goes down: 

Aimed at getting more Americans snacking on guacamole, the ad is reportedly the first for a fresh produce brand. Watch for it near the end of the first quarter.



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