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State Farm has the NBA Draft ‘pick is in’ jingle, will soon embed itself into our brains

Like a good neighbor, the NBA Draft is there.

If you’ve watched any sort of NBA basketball lately, you’ve undoubtedly run into more than a few State Farm insurance commercials. The company is sure to make “Jake from State Farm” — their photogenic spokesman — a permanent imprint in the minds of hoops fans.

When we tune in to watch the 2022 NBA Draft on Thursday night, hoping to see where future fixtures like Jabari Smith and Paolo Banchero will end up, State Farm’s grasp on our attention will be inescapable.

For the first time in the draft’s history, the “pick is in” jingle will be State Farm’s trademark bell. That’s right, with every selection, we will have been advertised insurance. I’d imitate what that bell sounds like, but I haven’t personally been brainwashed by fantastic low rates (wait a minute) just yet:

Like a good neighbor, the NBA apparently wants to monetize every last second of a broadcast, shamelessly making sure advertisements are pumped into our brains with regularity.

Like a good neighbor, the NBA Draft is there.

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

Oh no. It’s already happening.

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Could LeBron James Have Played Football at Notre Dame?

Those who have followed LeBron James closely know he was as equally talented at football in high school as he was at basketball.

Those who have followed LeBron James closely know he was as equally talented at football in high school as he was at basketball. People often ask what would have happened had he gone further on the gridiron than St. Vincent-St. Mary’s receiver. Alas, he chose the hardwood, and the sports world is better for it. The closest we ever got to see him play football on a national stage came in a State Farm commercial:

Way before fully committing to basketball, James was recruited as a football player. Patrick Schmidt of FanSided resurrected a 2016 ESPN story of how Urban Meyer pursued James while he was Notre Dame’s receivers coach. What Meyer didn’t realize while making his pitch was that his recruit was turning far more heads in his other sport. That James was in attendance the night Meyers and Ohio State won the 2014 national championship had to be a small consolation.

Many believe James would have been a prolific NFL tight end had things gone differently. In an alternate universe, imagine him suiting up for the Irish along his journey. Could he have helped save Tyrone Willingham’s job or prolong Charlie Weis’ time in South Bend? We’ll never know, but that’s how it should be.

NFL fans had so many jokes about missing out on a Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers ‘State Farm Bowl’

We were so close.

On Sunday afternoon, one piece of the Super Bowl LIV puzzle had been put into place: the Kansas City Chiefs had clinched a spot with Patrick Mahomes.

NFL fans wondered if Aaron Rodgers would follow suit in the NFC championship game with a Green Bay Packers win over the San Francisco 49ers, but nope! The Niners are off to Miami.

That robbed us of seeing a Super Bowl with the two quarterback stars of State Farm’s latest ad campaign, in which Rodgers and Mahomes share the same agent, Gabe. The spots were everywhere during football season, especially in the playoffs … and lots of folks spent Sunday night joking about how we missed out on the State Farm Bowl:

 

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