If you had “Jerod Mayo tackles Pete Davidson in a commercial” as a prop bet for the Super Bowl, congratulations: You’ve won money.
Patriots fans watching the Super Bowl might have caught a familiar face on Sunday during the fourth quarter: The team’s inside linebackers coach in a spot for Hellman’s. Mayo, of course, makes sense as a spokesman for Hellman’s given his last name and the condiment company’s best-known product.
“Hellman’s wants to tackle food waste,” the spokesperson said at the beginning of the ad. “So naturally, they hired … this legend.”
In the ad, Mayo tackles a man about to throw away old bread (“you could make grilled cheese with that”), a woman on crutches, a woman getting ready to throw away a rotisserie chicken, a man trying to escape with a bag of old spinach (“Make a frittata!