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

A look back at the 'First Draft Ever'

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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.

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