Usually motor racing broadcasts bore us with unnecessary cutaways to wives and girlfriends, but the Daytona 500 had a duck. The Aflac duck.

It looks like well-done CGI, but if not, Aflac better expect a call from the same dudes who kept my alma mater from bringing our bear to football games. That was a tame bear on a leash, man, kept at a relatively safe distance away from the players on the field. We're talking about potential race-interrupting "" with a duck on the loose here.

Several racing drivers at the Rolex 24 at Daytona this weekend, such as Magnus Racing's Andy Lally,

Fortunately, there were no reports of advertising spokesducks accidentally getting punted by a stock car, so I'll stick with that clever CGI theory.

Now, if we could just cut away from the advertising a bit longer and show more of the race itself...perhaps this duck is on to something. Replace all the cutaways to people who aren't actually racing or working on a team with cutaways to ad mascots, and shorten the commercial breaks in response. Problem solved!

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