Watch the 84 Lumber Ad Deemed Too Controversial for Broadcast Super Bowl
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.”