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Mr. Subliminal Deconstructs NFL Evolution Super Bowl AD

Maybe it should be called Headball

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NFL ad: Canton, 1906, just a bunch of guys running around in a pile of mud

Mr. Subliminal: Players were battering into the opposing line with arms locked in a flying wedge, resulting in 37 deaths and 296 serious injuries among just a few thousand high school and college players in 1904 and 1905 

NFL ad: So they introduced a few rules just to keep the peace

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Mr. Subliminal:High schools and colleges began cancelling football programs amid national outcry to stop the carnage
 
NFL ad: Suddenly we had a game on our hands

Mr. Subliminal: Teddy Roosevelt corralled top college presidents to White House meeting demanding football be made safe or abolished

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NFL ad: We swore to protect this thing we couldn't be without 

Mr. Subliminal:We can't let a few thousand middle age guys with brains like scrambled eggs wreck a $10 billion a year gravy train 

NFL ad: So we'd have it forever

Mr. Subliminal: Another century, another crisis to stifle

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