[BoomerSooner]

I'm assuming the issue was that they used an actor and didn't consult with a material expert/coach, which resulted in the official's mechanics not being quite what they should have been.

It also looked like the player might have been in bounds, but I think it was left intentionally ambiguous to allow viewers to wonder if it was a bad call. Just guessing, but this is where you had an issue with the commercial. None of us want officials to be portrayed as making mistakes. I fell victim to it in the OSU-Central Michigan thread that I started. I initially thought it was the wrong call. Told my son so in the car, but by the time I posted the thread, I had convinced myself that officials at that level certainly wouldn't miss a call like that. I wanted to believe in the officials being right. I think most of us on this site are actually biased that way.

The reason I didn't have an issue with it in this commercial is that I think the point isn't about whether the call was right or wrong. Someone might have caught it on video, but in a high school game without gigantic video screens with HD displays to replay it in the stadium, the fans are more than likely going to believe the call was wrong on any close play on which they believe the game was decided. By leaving it ambiguous, the commercial connects with every fan that thinks his/her team has ever lost a game on what might have been a bad call. To me the point and what I appreciated about the commercial is the acknowledgement that showing genuine compassion toward each other is bigger than what happens on the field. Whether the viewer interprets the situation as the official blowing the call or not, the message is that the official is still a person that needed help.

Alternatively, there is the issue of how safe is it to pick up people on the side of the road, but I don't think that is the issue anyone is worried about here.