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Green Bay Packers fan in front of the United States Supreme Court building
The Bears and the Packers have one of the fiercest rivalries the NFL has to offer, and their fans are more than happy to pounce on any opportunity to clown on the other team. That includes a Wisconsin native who recently found himself arguing in front of the Supreme Court and couldn’t resist the urge to slip in a jab at Chicago during the proceedings.
The NFL has produced plenty of bitter and historic rivalries, but there aren’t any that stick out more than the one between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears.
The two teams, which are separated by just over 200 miles, met for the first time all the way back in 1921 (when they were both members of the American Professional Football Association), and they’ve met on more than 200 occasions in a series where Green Bay currently has the bragging rights with an all-time record of 110-98-6.
Those contests have produced some memorable battles on the field as well as plenty of trash-talk between the fans who root for both sides, and a member of Packers Nation pounced on an opportunity to throw some shade at the Bears in front of America’s highest court.
Wisconsin-born attorney Paul Clement made Packers fans proud while arguing in front of the Supreme Court
I feel like you need to be a bit of a political junkie to be familiar with Paul Clement, an attorney who served as the Solicitor General under George W. Bush during his second term and was the acting Attorney General for a grand total of one day in 2007.
Clement was born and raised in Cedarburg, Wisconsin (located around 90 miles south of Green Bay) before heading to Washington, D.C. to attend Georgetown as an undergraduate, and he received a degree from Harvard Law before kicking off a legal career that led to him co-founding Clement & Murphy, a law firm that specializes in cases that make their way to the Supreme Court.
The most recent is Salazar v. Paramount Global, which is a class action lawsuit involving Video Privacy Protection Act issues stemming from a dispute over the latter’s ability to track the internet activity of users who signed up for a free newsletter on 247Sports (without getting too deep into the legal weeds, it mostly revolves around the definition of a “consumer”).
Clement was tapped to represent Paramount Global in the case, and on Wednesday, he appeared in front of the Supreme Court during an oral argument where he fielded questions from Justice Elena Kagan, who expressed concern over a company’s ability to track a user who may watch videos that could be considered “embarrassing.”
Clement countered by noting there aren’t many videos on 247Sports that fall under that label, but it’s hard to imagine he randomly picked the team he mentioned while citing a potential example, saying, “Maybe watching Chicago Bears films is embarrassing in certain parts of the country.”
Justice Kagan during Digital Privacy oral argument: “…and then they watch a lot of videos. Let’s say a judge does this and then it tuns out the judge watches some pretty funky sports videos, you know, like a lot of women wrestling or something. And that’s embarrassing!” https://t.co/xwPSePyK37
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 14, 2026
Well played.