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Rodgers doppelganger fools fans and players, gets to meet Packers QB, Tom Wrigglesworth is not Aaron Rodgers.
He's an English comedian with a heavy accent and a slender build whose left-handed arm can't throw a football eight yards.

But Wrigglesworth's uncanny resemblance to the NFL quarterback had many in Green Bay -- including even some Packers players -- believing he really was Rodgers.

In a video filmed during training camp and published by Wrigglesworth on Wednesday, the comedian travels all the way from London to Green Bay to meet his doppelganger, along the way playfully masquerading as the Packers' superstar.

Wrigglesworth, sporting a thick mustache and soul patch reminiscent of some of Rodgers' "Movember" facial-hair fashionings, visits a local diner wearing a Packers hoodie and hat. He's approached by numerous amazed and adoring Packers fans, nearly all of whom initially believe he is Rodgers until he matter-of-factly tells them his name is "Tom."

Inside the restaurant, he has some amusing conversations with various children, including getting a word-for-word lesson on how to persuasively say, "Hi, I'm Aaron Rodgers."

A few older residents ask Wrigglesworth to sign autographs and they don't seem to notice -- or perhaps just don't mind -- that he signs as a lefty.

The best scenes in the 10-minute video come when Wrigglesworth visits Lambeau Field, first riding to practice on a children's bicycle (a Packers training-camp tradition) and high-fiving several Green Bay players who unknowingly greet him as "Aaron" and "A-Rod."

Wrigglesworth, who receives a key to the city from the Green Bay mayor, then manages to make his way into the locker room, where several nonplussed Packers players do disbelieving double-takes at the deceiving Discount Double-Checker. The imposter also tosses a feeble, flimsy pass to a laughing Randall Cobb, instructing the receiver to make sure he gets his "body behind the ball."

Finally, Wrigglesworth meets the real Aaron Rodgers, though the latter is sans moustache and fills out his jersey noticeably more. The two share a bro-hug and a laugh and Rodgers says they must be "related somewhere down the line." Rodgers brings Wrigglesworth back into the locker room, where he tells some other Packers players that the Englishman is his cousin.

The video ends with Wrigglesworth catching a pass from Rodgers, then celebrating with a dainty spike and an unconvincing version of the quarterback's patented championship-belt celebration, which prompts Rodgers to make a final, decisive declaration.