If you’re an NFL fan who’s paid social media any mind this week, then perhaps you’ve seen the image of actress Hailee Steinfeld celebrating at a football game in a Denver Broncos jacket.
Big deal? Probably not … if Steinfeld’s husband, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, who’s also the league’s reigning MVP, wasn’t facing the Broncos on Saturday afternoon in the opening game of the postseason’s divisional round.
Big deal? Probably not … given the picture of Steinfeld in said Broncos garb was stamped Feb. 7, 2016 − which happens to be the day Denver most recently won a championship, defeating the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50, five-time league MVP Peyton Manning’s final game. (If you look closely, you can see part of the Super Bowl 50 logo on the field behind Steinfeld, that game played at Levi’s Stadium − the Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers and, coincidentally, also the site of Super Bowl 60 next month. She also seems to be mocking the ‘Dab’ celebration of former Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, the league MVP in 2015.)
CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson, who will be working this weekend’s game between the Bills and Broncos, apparently asked Allen about the picture of his wife, whom he married last June.
Wolfson wrote on her X account, ‘Asked Josh about this pic and he told me he had no idea it was floating around. Laughed and said she was probably paid to be there. And that he definitely wasn’t going to bring it up at home.’
Allen, who is also pursuing his first Lombardi Trophy, and Steinfeld are expecting their first child this year. No reason to agitate a pregnant spouse, Mr. MVP.