SCOTT JACOBS

We’re a big fan of freelance artist Gary Finkler. His take on the world of sports is always entertaining and humorous and whenever we have the chance, we like to show off some of his stuff to all of our loyal readers here at Juiced Sports. With the 15-1 Packers — by far the runaway favorite to win it all, pretty much all season — now eliminated after getting thumped by the New York football Giants, the Twitter-verse was abuzz with Discount Double Check puns.  Hard to blame them. While the commercial is original, funny, and catchy, and spawned off two more versions (one with B.J. Raji and Clay Matthews), people love it when the person plastered all over their TV takes the fall.

So now we’re stuck with those State Farm Discount Double Check commercials throughout what I’d have to assume, the rest of the playoffs, but we have no Rodgers! or the Pack to go along with ‘em.  The reality is this: becoming the spokesperson for a company and doing an extremely over-played ad which plays over and over throughout a sports’ postseason, doesn’t seem to work. Remember when Kobe and LeBron had their puppet show commercials?  Remember how neither made it to the Finals that year? When the player advances as the commercial runs its course it’s poetica synchronization at its finest.  But when the star of your ad flops out an hour into the dance, and you still continue to showcase him for the next 3 weeks, well — that can get a little awkward.  Sometimes, you might even get caught with your pants down:

Pretty funny stuff, right?

Some of our favorites circulating Twitter yesterday:

Discount Double Choke
Discount Double D’oh!
Discount Double Done

Rodgers!

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