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The Goat got baaaaaaannnnned.
T-Mobile’s Super Bowl advertisement featuring Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (Greatest Of All Time?) won’t atmosphere through the game that is big Sunday and so the Bellevue, Wash.-based cordless carrier circulated it Friday early early early morning.
So far as T-Mobile sees it, the advertisement featuring Brady and tight end teammate Rob Gronkowski could have ruffled some feathers with all the NFL as well as its big sponsor — and T-Mobile rival — Verizon.
The 60-second spot is set this past year as Brady had been considering their future after the end of their long haul aided by the brand New England Patriots. The two talk retirement, with Gronk hyping the joys of soft Florida sands and wind in the hair in a video chat with Gronkowski. However a cell that is spotty bungles just just just what Gronk is telling Brady, and makes it appear to be the QB should started to Tampa to attempt to win another championship.
That’s precisely what the 2 players will likely be wanting to do on Sunday, therefore the advertising provides up a spin that is clever exactly exactly how Brady might be headed toward their 7th Super Bowl name.
But morning T-Mobile released the ad on the Today Show instead of saving it for 100 million TV viewers on Sunday friday.
T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert tweeted that the advertisement was “BANNED.” The organization released a news launch stating that “even after edits, it nevertheless got prohibited due to the вЂprotected rights deal’ aided by the NFL’s вЂofficial telco sponsor.’”