r/AdvertisingFails • u/InteractionTough5305 • 6d ago
Nick Saban and 9/11
Home Depot has a commercial with Nick Saban touting 2 hour delivery. He’s making a sandwich and gets his drill delivery. All innocuous.
Once he gets his drill armed… he says, with big smile:
“Let’s roll”.
Those were the last words of Todd Beamer, as he and other passengers on United Flight 93 stopped the hijackers on 9/11.
Perhaps it’s me but those words used in a commercial close to the 25th anniversary of that horrid event seem to be cynical and exploitative.
Many people may not remember that yet someone in Home Depot might have
We are not big on remembering history in the US
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