Toyota Tugs at the Heartstrings With "My Bold Dad" Super Bowl Commercial

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If Nationwide's shocking Super Bowl ad left you feeling depressed, Toyota's dad-themed ad probably gave you the warm fuzzies (and left you with a few tears). The ad shows a dad being there for his daughter through various events — standing up to a bully, picking her up from a party, asking her to dance when she sat alone, and ultimately dropping her off for her military deployment — and comes with the tagline, "Being a dad is a choice. One that will make a wonderful human being who will make their own choices someday."

Toyota wasn't the only company to turn its attention to dads during Super Bowl XLIX. Dove Men+Care's "Real Strength" ad showed the softer side of fatherhood and how men embrace that role.

Tell us, which did you prefer?