A decision by Jeep to enlist actor Harrison Ford for a Super Bowl commercial was a last-minute gambit that almost didn't suceeed

Did you catch the Jeep commercial during the Super Bowl? Harrison Ford swung at Ford by saying his Jeep Wrangler makes him happy, even though his name is ‘Ford’. But this ad might not have upset Ford Bronco drivers as intended.

"It’s not the in-your-face big splash kind of Super Bowl commercial," Ford tells PEOPLE of his ad for Jeep. "It's a soft sell"Harrison Ford has long forged his own path, both in life and as an American big-screen legend for nearly six decades.