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Video: Bears Superfans Rib Aaron Rodgers In New State Farm Ad

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 12, 2013 2:00PM

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Robert Smigel's "Chicago Superfans" sketch should be well past its shelf life by now but this is Chicago, where the Bears and Mike Ditka's cult of personality still have a hold on the plaque-hardened hearts of residents across the city.

Yet there's Smigel and George Wendt as Carl Wollarski and Bob Swerski giving Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers the business in a new State Farm commercial. In the ad, Smigel and Wendt sandwich Rodgers (a State Farm pitchman) talk about how they saved so much money on State Farm's "Discount Daaaaable Check" they were able to upgrade to "grill class."

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Yup.