This is definitely the time to revive them. Problem is, didn’t the creator of the sketch say they would never return? Anyone got any Dope on this?
It would be difficult to recapture with Chris Farley dead.
There’s always John Goodman.
Oh yeah, I remember those. Even saw a few. Mostly corny, always hit and miss, but some really funny moments. Not unlike SNL on the whole at the time.
Two problems:
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As far as I could tell, the whole premise was that of a diehard group of fans remaining staunchly loyal despite all the hardships the team was going through. Da Bears won Super Bowl 20; pretty much everything since has been forgettable at best. And they dealt with it…cheerfully, fanatically, and tirelessly. Now all of a sudden, their team is in the Super Bowl. How do the SBFs deal with success? Where to even begin?
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Mike Ditka was fired. A huge element of the skits and undoubtedly the single most important person to the SBFs. Nobody, least of all Lovie Smith, could come close to replacing him.
Pretty sure the most we’ll see is a small tribute or retrospective.
There’s a football guy named “Lovie?”
I always knew there was something odd about that sport.
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There’s a football guy named “Lovie?”
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And his wife’s name is “Thurston.” 
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Oh, that’s funny, too, because there used to be a football player named “Fuzzy Thurston”.
“Fuzzy, Lovie.”
“Lovie, Fuzzy.”
I was watching SNL the first time they had the Superfans. The Bears were playing the Giants the next day (or next week), and I took the sketch as a total rip-job on Chicago fans. . .fat, stupid, deluded, drunk.
Who knew that the city would actually embrace the image!
If you asked me to guess, I would have said the originals were Farley, Mantegna, Wendt and someone else.
Turns out it was Farley, Mantegna, Robert Smigel (!), and Mike Myers.
from WIki. . .
Oh, geez…you must not know too many Chicagoans. There’s nothing we seem to like better than to dumb up our image! How many cities’ fans are proud of the fact that their baseball stadiums (well, one of them anyway), sells out pretty much every single game, whether the team is in first or last place? We are pathetic, and oddly proud of it!
That’s so funny I Howelled with laughter.
Yeah. That’s rich.
My favourite of those skits was when Ditka became the coach of the New Orleans Saints. George Wendt’s character moves to Missouri or some such so he can be half way between Chicago and New Orleans. Just thought that was rather amusing.
Superfans went on after Ditka was fired (see Lochdale’s post). I have a feeling these guys love Ditka no matter where he is. Sort of like how Hank Hill loves everything about Cowboy football from 20 years ago.
I was also pondering the return of the Superfans once I heard the Bears would be in the big game. I have a feeling they will be back, just for a one-off.