Watched the Super Bowl across the street at my neighbor’s house — a farm-raised country boy who still loves to hunt, fish, and and drink good whiskey.
Didn’t care much about watching the game, but I knew my good buddy was smoking a brisket on his pit out back, and he promised he’d throw on some of the Black Buck sausage he just got back from the processor. Not one to pass up good smoked meat, good company, and a few pints of cold beer, so I watched the game with the rest of the guys out in the garage, while the woman and children mostly stayed inside and watched the game…or something else; I’m not sure.
Anyway, the only time it got completely quiet in the garage was when this Dodge commercial came on:
That commercial was made from a speech that the late, great Paul Harvey gave back in 1978.
As soon as it ended the first two comments, one from an older gentleman in our group, who simply said, “God bless Paul Harvey,” and the second from my neighbor who had driven Ford trucks since he started driving on his Grandfather’s farm, “Good commercial. I still ain’t buying a Dodge.”
I’m guessing this commercial might not have been quite as big of a hit on the East Coast, where most of the viewership was probably offended at the repeated use of “God,” where the concept of hard work is as foreign a concept as being responsible for their own health, welfare, and safety, and their overall disdain for the types of people in “fly over country” depicted in this ad.
This young lady get it:
How many pansy-assed Libs do you think actually buy a #Dodge #Ram? If they’re scared of guns you know big trucks make them pee their pants!
— Conservative Voice (@2nd_Amend) February 4, 2013
Lots of unhinged angry Leftists on Twitter. Like these two seriously unhappy douchettes:
shut the fuck up Dodge, farmers evolved from apes just like the rest of us. #GetItRight
— Cecil Jacobs (@CecLouise) February 4, 2013
Throwing “god ” into a Dodge commercial is idiotic. There is no god, and soon… no Dodge. Fuck Dodge! #atheism
— Keri Driver (@KeriDriver) February 4, 2013
(more Leftists coming unglued over at Fire Andrea Mitchell, and more reacts over at Twitchy, too)
Anyway…this was hand’s down the big winner at our party. But this Budweiser commercial was also a big hit. Even with the Miller Lite guys:
Turns out, a lot of these guys who grew up on farms also grew up loving their farm animals, too.
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I’m not a big football fan either but I turned on the game with about 8 minutes to go and saw this commercial and almost shed a tear. Wonderful and it speaks very well for Dodge.
The NFL doesn’t interest me and I haven’t watched a Super Bowl in 20 years.
I have watched the Puppy Bowl for the past nine years, but the one yesterday sucked. They added guest “celebrities” commentary during the show…WTF?
Anyway, those are some good ads, even if you don’t drive a Dodge truck or drink alcohol…like me.
My love of Football ended with the demise of da Bears in late 1980′s . I like to watch a good game once in great while but do agree N2L that its no longer about football but a “wardrobe malfunctions” and other half-time nonsense.
It is sad that pure football no longer sells.
You are confusing football with the NFL.
The NFL is presented by Hollywood…felons are welcome.
Real football is still being played.
If this doesn’t get your football juices flowing, you don’t have a pulse.
Hey No2
Why no highlights from the 2013 Cotton Bowl?
Because there weren’t any.
Yeah, I know!
Gig Em
Us OU fans loved Kevin Sumlin. Glad to see him doing so well after all the years he spent with the Sooners.
Aggies are now only 3-11 against OU in the Stoops era at OU, so enjoy this one.
The first half of the Cotton Bowl was pretty good. I thought that OU might come out and take over in the second half.
Same here, Mark. OU had three long sustained drives in the first half and the Aggie D was looking gassed at halftime. For whatever reason the OU offense just didn’t come to play in the second half.
I wasn’t surprised with the Aggie offense, I fully expected them to score more than forty. What did surprise me was the OU offense not hanging half a hundred.
Both teams could well meet up again in the not too distant future.
I am strictly referring to the Super Bowl N2L. As far as real football I am still on the fence about royalty since da Bears have sucked these past 25 years.
Alrighty, then.
Must suck having no pulse, though.
Since ND is so close by you could follow them, they have their own motto.
And that is precisely the reason I will not follow them
Notre Dame Fighting Irish look pretty good from my neck of the woods though…
Listen, their scorecard aside from this flop is not that bad…
Not everyone views the Fightin’ Frenchies that way, not even some of the alumni.
Why I won’t be cheering for old Notre Dame.
I know about all this and here’s my take:
- there is not much information here that a definite judgment can be made.
- one black sheep does not make the entire herd bad.
- ND is on its toes, had lost, and will be paying for any mishandling of this dearly.
Darn, it seems that evry team out there has some problems, NFL or College – they ALL have some bad apples in the bunch. Let’s switch to Hockey! Oops, bad apples galore…
Player conduct is one thing that the institution has no control of, dealing with criminal acts by their students is where ND really showed their ass.
Agree!!! And, again – this will haunt them forever.
I think I was right about what sells football: Beyonce just took over the most hits about her “illuminati sign” but of course, the game took a back seat to that.
“Good commercial. I still ain’t buying a Dodge.”
I agree with that statement 100 percent!
{sarc}Dodge totally screwed the pooch on this one. This commercial seriously alienated a bunch of lefties, and now all the (borrowing a phrase from a great American) “dread-lock wearing, patchouli oil smelling, eco-terrorist enabling” hippies are not going to buy a Dodge truck. That’s really going to take a chunk out of their sales.{/sarc}
Still if I was going to buy another truck I’d probably get one of the Texas-made Toyotas instead.
They make a good truck, but I would probably go with what Robbie got, a F-150 with the EcoBoost(twin turbo) engine. They already have cpu tuning programs, Air Raid intake and free flowing exhaust for that hot rod that gets good gas mileage.
I clicked on the link for the other tweets and I’m seriously disturbed by how angry people are over a commercial!! Holy cow! I mean they said the word God (heaven forbid) and there were a bunch of actual, hard working people in the commercial and people are tweeting F-U farmer. I have to say, it kind of scares me.