Stampeding buffalo prove Levi's spot wasn't a fantasy

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Two photos and a bizarre story in The New York Times yesterday about cops herding bison that ran amok in the suburbs outside Baltimore got AdFreak thinking: Maybe Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s 2003 Levi’s spot in which buffalo stampede by a 20ish couple on a dark city street wasn’t so out there after all. In the spot—which ran on the Super Bowl—the couple stands in the middle of the road, feels the vibration of the stampede but remains untouched while dozens of buffalo gallop by.

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