This is killer......

[DainBramaged]

[Wait Wut]

1. Damnit!

And, I hate beer.

[Robb]

2. Well that was a highly-efficient tear-jerker.

[Nay]

37. Yeah, no kidding!

[kiva]

48. No kidding...

but wonderful.

[grantcart]

59. Not only that but I saw the damn thing at the gym without the sound

so I knew what it was about and still had to get the tissue.

[11 Bravo]

3. Yeah, that's an all-timer.

[LeftofObama]

4. WOW!

[babylonsister]

5. What a lousy, stinkin', marketing ploy-

rip at my heartstrings, whydoncha? Not I have to drink Bud.

[DainBramaged]

7. I won't drink their swill but damn that's a GREAT commercvial

[alfredo]

53. You don't need a marketing team when your product speaks for itself.

I'd rather spend a dollar or two more to get a real beer like Sierra Nevada Stout, or Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter.

If you insist on drinking a lager, try Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold. Samuel Adams makes good Lagers like their Boston Lager and their Noble Pils. When you drink them you know you are drinking an honest beer. No chemical enhancers, no rice, no bullshit.

[RoccoR5955]

62. Here, here!

I believe you forgot the good Brooklyn Lager, and Brooklyn Pilsner. Yuengling and Genesee also make local lagers.
Not that I like lagers, but I had to mention some from here in the Northeast, and give a shout out to my old home town, Brooklyn.
Brooklyn was once the beer capital of the US. Before prohibition, about 10 percent of the beer in the US was made there.
Not any more.
I am glad and proud that there are now more choices, and that the local small brewery/pup is coming back to every corner of the US, where you can get fresh beer, made by local people.

[alfredo]

64. I haven't tried much east coast beers other than Dogfish Head

and Brooklyn Chocolate Stout.

[RoccoR5955]

66. You don't know what you are missing!

Ommegang, Brooklyn, Keegan, Saranac, Ramstein, Albany Pump Station, Smuttynose, and the ubiquitous Magic Hat are a few of the greats!

(just the ones that I could think of off the top of my head, and the ones where I know the brewers)

[alfredo]

68. Founders, Three Floyds, Schlafly, Bells, and Great Lakes are my midwestern favorites.

We have Magic Hat here, and I think we have Ommegang. Schlafly used to make a good ESB.


Great Lakes, Founders, and Anchor make very good Porters.

I wish we could get Smuttynose here.


Mackeson Triple Stout is available again. It is made in Trinidad now, and I think it is much better than the Hudepol version.

[RainDog]

6. good thing they're not owned by Burger King

cause the scene after would've definitely been killer.

[Ian Iam]

15. BANG-ON!

[catbyte]

19. Ouch, LOL

[JohnnyRingo]

35. Thanx

Breaks the tension from reading the other posts.
DUers can be a sensitive sort. LOL

[RainDog]

38. well, you know the reality

us cynics are the ones who were sentimental until we got our hearts broken by the world.

[OldDem2012]

36. That brings a whole new meaning to.....

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Stevie Nix song "Landslide" from Fleetwood Mac

and a great beer commercial. Can't get much better than that.

[DainBramaged]

9. Song gets me because it makes me think of my beautiful daughter when she was born.....

Gonna make a lot of grown men cry Sunday night.

[kimmylavin]

41. Yeah...

That was the song I chose for my father-daughter dance at my wedding.
He's going to be a mess.

[Brigid]

10. Great ad!

[pacalo]

11. That made me want to cry!

I can't watch Lassie movies or click on to sad animal stories on DU, either. And I've never seen "Old Yeller" since seeing it as a child.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. I'm the same way... even just the music foe Lassie gets me all choked up

Glad to know I'm not the only one!


And yes, the ad got me goin too.

[pacalo]

63. Love ya, BlancheSplanch...

[DollarBillHines]

12. This one is going to be tugging some heart-strings, come Sunday.

Most Clydesdales and Percherons that better than most people I know. For sure, they are far better beings than I am.

[kentuck]

13. What would you name the small Clydesdale?? I would call him "Smiley"...

Because he makes people smile.

[DainBramaged]

14. Tissues.....

[Demo_Chris]

16. Holy hell! What an epic ad!

[sakabatou]

17. Good ad

I wonder how much hate mail they'd endure if they used the Dixie Chicks version:

[StarryNite]

18. I logged in just so I could rec this.

[DainBramaged]

44. Thank you it is one of the best in a while and will probably be judged best of the Super Brawl

[MrMickeysMom]

20. I wanna name her...

Stevie

[forestpath]

21. The horse should have kicked his ass sky high for selling him to a huge foreign corporation.

[SunSeeker]

22. LOL!

[busterbrown]

23. Exactly...This one goes a little too far for me..I love this kind of stuff....

but come on, gotta have a little shot of realism...

[Auntie Bush]

42. Since when are ads realistic?...just saying.....

[busterbrown]

43. Well then, they shouldn’t pretend it is.......Dogs I can believe, Cats I can believe..

I’ve worked with horses!!!!

[nolabear]

24. There are going to be some big-assed men with something in their eye come Sunday.

Whooee!

[nolabear]

25. You ought to see the one with a Chippendale.

[MynameisBlarney]

26. Ah geez...

right in the feels

[RebelOne]

27. I have seen these Clydesdales many times.

I am only 5 foot, 3 inches, they were taller than me. Awesome animals.

[glowing]

32. They really are magnificant. My grandfather had work horses, and when I say these

beautiful clydedales made his look like ponies, its not an understatement. Simply gorgeous. As far as hating on the beer and all corporation evilesque thing going on in some of the threads, I wonder if they would even be around as a breed or how many children would get to experience seeing this wonderful breed at fairs if Budweiser didn't support the horse as its mascott. They are so large and would take much more feed for the average farmer to keep around as a practical work horse. They are a bit too big for riding, but they seem to be bread as a gentle flower lingering in a mammoth beast. Perhaps because they are bread to be around lots of people and kids wanting only to touch them or watch them in a parade going by.

My grandfather would pull his work horses in fairs around NE, he had a bit of "weight" on the fair circuit. The best thing he got us in on was going to the clydesdale barn, getting in and around the horses, and being allowed to feed some treats to a few of them. It was quite unusual to be allowed that "in" with them (insurance and safety issues and all), but we were "horse people", on top of work horses, posing for pics before we could walk, so we were allowed that special treat. It was amazing. Best little girl high. I wish my grandpa had lived longer, now I would love to "take over" that horse farm, but at 12, no one in the "in between" generation wanted to keep up with the working farm. I miss being around horses.. They simply are wonderful and have their own special personalities and eyes that literally see into your soul and make you refelct-- it is about as close to a "god" experience I have ever felt in my life... that and when you find that one horse that has that special connection, that you don't even need to saddle before hopping onto its back from a large tree stump or off the side of a fence and taking off in a gallop over the fields... That feeling of freedom and the trust between that horse to keep you safe at 10 yrs old and too foolish for your own good, is simply, breathtakeningly amazing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. if you're not a writer, you should be. This is a beautiful story.

Made me cry all over again. You captured something we all wish to hold onto...beautiful innocence and the bonds of love and trust.

[glowing]

54. No, I'm not, but thank you. I've always wanted to be able to write like writers can...

I love books and being taken to another place, land, or reality. Having the picture in my mind as the pages turn page by page. I absolutely love "fantasy" type novels... The one's with magic, horses, knights, some sort of mystery and challenge.. I absolutely love the "movie" that the writer can real me in on in my mind. It's like I'm standing there watching a movie... Sometimes, I really don't like books that have been made into movies because my mind had a different picture of the set and the characters and the importance of certain scenes.

I'm sorry to make you cry... My love for horses is about as strong as my love for VT (even though I don't own any now or live in VT anymore- LOL). But they are the first memories that I have and my first parts of love. If I won the lottery, I would move to NC and buy a small horse farm. (FL is too hot for enjoying a mid-summer's night ride out under the stars & VT is too cold to wake up before dawn and go out into the cold to do chores plus my husband's family live in NC, so it would be a win-win).

[NealK]

28. Oops...

I thought you said thriller!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Awwww! *sniff*

It won't make me drink Budweiser, which tastes like goat pee and bleach, but it's a great ad.

[lobodons]

30. Reminds me of Christian the Lion reunion

Reminds me of Christian the Lion reunion:

(the entire documentary is also worth a look)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Except that the lion reunion was real.

[Nay]

39. Oh, stop. The lion thing made me cry like a BABY.

[grantcart]

58. Thanks for that. Do you have a link to the documentary.

What a moment.

[Skip Intro]

67. I don't wipe tears away often, but that one does it everytime. nt

[absyntheminded]

33. Yes, brazen exploitation for profit, where's my tissues..

Name? How bout Claudia?

[AlbertCat]

49. Name? How bout Claudia?

I was gonna suggest "Beeroholic". Or "Gateway Drug".

[spedtr90]

34. War Horse...without the war

[Nay]

40. That's what it reminded me of, too. I wonder if the ad company swiped it straight from that

movie?

[jayschool]

47. Drink local brew

No matter how many expensive commercials the mega-brewers might show you, resist!

[sellitman]

55. America's newest brewery just open 1/4 of a mile away.

Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford CT is amazing! They recycled an old factory and make fantastic beer in state of the art computer controlled tanks and oak casks that will soon be available outside of CT.

Local plug

[jayschool]

56. But, but

how will they ever sell beer without multi-million-dollar marketing campaigns?

Oh, yeah, that's right. They'll just make killer beer.

Here's a toast to Two Roads and all local breweries trying to make an honest dollar in a Bud-Miller-Coors style-over-substance world.

Salud!

[jayschool]

57. Zipline in Lincoln, Neb.

Zipline has been around for just a few weeks, so Two Roads may be newer, but not by much.

Local plug

[sellitman]

69. You have me beat

Two Roads has been open a month.

[HappyMe]

50. Aaaw!

I love it!

They should name the horse Stevie.

[secondvariety]

51. My uncle

had a Clydesdale named Moon. Even though it's been 50 years, I still remember the first time Uncle Clarence let me ride Moon. He was so big, I doubt he even noticed I was there.

[iandhr]

52. awesome

[RoccoR5955]

60. Stupid horse!

He could have at least brought the guy a beer!
I mean all that good Belgian Budweiser around, and the freakin' horse couldn't even get one for the guy?
Either the horse is stupid or cheap!

[datasuspect]

61. i wonder how many beaten wives and fucked up kids come from budweiser fueled rage?

propaganda is effective.

plus it's fucking pisswater.

[ReRe]

65. If that doesn't win...

K&R

... the best Super Bowl commercial award, someone's got their priorities all wrong....
either that or the judging was rigged.

[seabeyond]

70. tears. silly me. nt

[TeeYiYi]

71. Me too. nt

TYY

[DainBramaged]

72. It is just silly isn't it?

Now where's my tea....