For some, the Super Bowl is all about the game. For others, it represents a few hours when really great commercials can be seen on TV. Whether you are the former or the latter (or a little of both), I’m sure you stopped and listened when this ad aired. We know we did. Here it is: Our favorite Super Bowl ad.
This advertisement from Dodge Ram is very inspiring. Maybe it’s because they used a radio segment from “the voice of middle America,” Paul Harvey.
- If you visit Dodge Ram’s website and share the video from there, they will donate to support FFA and assist in local hunger and educational programs. If you’re going to share it anyway, share it that way and you’ll make a difference!
- There is a little bit of controversy about this ad. A farm.com video on YouTube from early last year is pretty much the same (the video can be viewed here). But, we’re glad such a good message was broadcast to a much larger audience by Dodge.
Here is the complete text of Paul Harvey’s speech:
And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So, God made a farmer.
God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer.
I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon…and mean it. So, God made a farmer.
God said “I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And…who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain’n from “tractor back”, put in another seventy two hours. So, God made a farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. So, God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets…and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend the broken leg of a meadow lark. So, God made a farmer.
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight…and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed…and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who’d laugh and then sigh…and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life “doing what dad does”. So, God made a farmer.
