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Watch the 84 Lumber Ad Deemed Too Controversial for Broadcast Super Bowl
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Tom Brady clinched his status as the greatest quarterback of all time during Super Bowl 51 yesterday—no controversy there.
What was controversial, however, was a politically charged commercial by 84 Lumber. Indeed, the company’s full commercial was deemed too controversial for broadcast television. A shortened, tamed-down version appeared during the Bowl, but the full version can be viewed on YouTube. We have included the six-minute ad below.
84 Lumber says the commercial depicts “a mother and daughter’s symbolic migrant journey towards becoming legal American citizens.”