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The Dolphins and Bills met in Miami in the final game of the NFL’s regular season with the AFC East title and the 2-seed in the conference on the line. Early on it looked like we were going to be headed for a rematch in the Wild Card round, as the Dolphins took a 14-7 lead and were running the ball seemingly at will in the first half, while the Bills kept squandering opportunities with untimely turnovers.

However, in the second half things flipped as the Buffalo defense woke up and put the clamps on Miami’s offense, Josh Allen started to make timely plays in the fourth quarter, and they got a huge play from their special teams on a 96-yard punt return touchdown from Deonte Harty.

After taking their first lead of the game at 21-14, Buffalo had a chance to ice the game on 4th and 1 in plus territory, but Allen got stuffed on a sneak attempt and the Dolphins took over with a chance to tie the game and force overtime.

Miami would move the ball across midfield, but their last gasp effort at extending the game ended on a rather dreadful Tua Tagovailoa interception as he overthrew Chase Claypool (one play after throwing high and getting Tyreek Hill hit hard, forcing him out of the game for the next play) and Taylor Rapp made a diving interception to ice the game.

The Bills defense putting the game on ice was fitting with how well they played in the second half, and now they will go back to Buffalo where they get to play host to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. ET on CBS. Miami, meanwhile, will have to play Saturday night at Kansas City where they’ll have to deal with 1 degree temperature and the defending champs on a Peacock exclusive game — the full Wild Card weekend schedule can be found here.

While the Dolphins and Bills were still battling it out for the AFC East crown and the 2-seed in the conference, the NFL released the full schedule for Wild Card weekend at halftime of the Buffalo-Miami battle since everything was set except for two matchups (and all 14 playoff teams were locked in).

Unsurprisingly, the Saturday afternoon game will be the Browns at Texans, as Houston has been in the leadoff spot on Wild Card weekend pretty much any year they’ve won the AFC South. The Saturday night game will be the Chiefs at home against either the Steelers or Dolphins in a Peacock exclusive, which you can bet will lead to some very unhappy fans when they realize they need to pay for NBC’s app to watch a playoff game — NBC spent all of Sunday night’s game plugging this, but it will still catch plenty of folks off guard.

Also coming as little surprise is FOX getting Packers-Cowboys in the midday slate, with the either Steelers-Bills or Bills-Dolphins going to CBS at 1 p.m. and Matthew Stafford’s return to Detroit earning the primetime placement on NBC. The Eagles traveling to Tampa will round out the weekend’s games on ESPN, with the full schedule available below.

Saturday, January 13
Browns at Texans, 4:30 p.m. ET (NBC)

TBD (Steelers OR Dolphins) at Chiefs, 8:15 p.m. ET (Peacock)

Sunday, January 14
Steelers at Bills OR Bills at Dolphins, 1:00 p.m. ET (CBS)

Packers at Cowboys, 4:30 p.m. ET (FOX)

Rams at Lions, 8:15 p.m. ET (NBC)

Monday, January 15
Eagles at Buccaneers, 8:15 p.m. ET (ESPN/ABC)

Taylor Swift attended the 2024 Golden Globes without the man who lets her bejeweled, Travis Kelce, whose playoff-bound Kansas City Chiefs played the Los Angeles Chargers earlier in the day. Swift looked like she wished she was there — or literally anywhere else — during Globes host Jo Koy’s monologue.

“We came on after a football doubleheader,” the comedian said. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL… On the Golden Globes we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.” This was Swift’s reaction:

Koy, whose monologue was met with light boos from the crowd, later said, “Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago. You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. I wrote some of these, and those are the ones you’re gonna laugh at.”

Swift looked much happier later in the show, when Ayo Edebiri won Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for her performance in The Bear.

Swift’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film is nominated for Oscars Cheer Moment, I mean, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement along with Barbie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Oppenheimer, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

You can find the full list of winners here.

The final game of the NFL regular season was a battle for the AFC East between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins. The winner would become the 2-seed in the AFC playoffs and host a playoff game next weekend, while the loser would drop to the 6 or 7-seed and go on the road.

While the Bills had some stress alleviated by Jacksonville’s loss earlier in the day that assured them at least a playoff berth, those were still significant stakes for Sunday night’s game and the two teams played a tense first half as you might expect. Miami would take the first lead of the game on a De’Vone Achane run, and it seemed like the Bills offense was stuck in the mud for much of the early going. They would finally get a little rhythm in the passing game, moving into the red zone on a deep ball from Josh Allen to Stefon Diggs, and then scored a touchdown on a wild play where an Allen pass ricocheted way up into the air off a defender’s helmet, falling into the arms of Trent Sherfield in the back of the end zone.

It was an incredible play by Sherfield to track the ball, haul it in, and keep his toes on the ground as he fell out the back of the end zone.

Given how tipped passes like that typically result in disaster for the offense, this was a rare time where things worked out for the team passing the ball, and it could end up being a very important play for their playoff seeding.

Pedro Pascal is up for Best Actor – Television Series Drama at the 2024 Golden Globes. If he wins, maybe he’ll explain what happened to his arm.

The Last of Us star was recently spotted with his right arm in a sling. He hasn’t publicly commented on the injury, but production on season two of The Last of Us hasn’t happened yet. Maybe Gladiator 2?

“It’s kind of fun to have the permission to feel everything, contain it, or express it,” Pascal told Beef‘s Steven Yeun in a conversation for Variety. “Something that occurred to me when you were talking about process is how lonely it can be. With age, in some instances, I’ve gotten kind of scared. I can feel like I’m not in it, and I don’t know how to get in it, and I don’t know what I need to do to get in it, other than just breathe, not bail, let all the feelings be and be present.

The other actors nominated in the same category as Pascal are Brian Cox for Succession, Kieran Culkin for Succession, Gary Oldman for binge favorite Slow Horses, Jeremy Strong for Succession, and Dominic West for The Crown. You can find the full list of winners here.

The 2024 Golden Globes is the official beginning of film and TV awards season (reminder: the Emmys are next Monday, January 15th). Barbie and Oppenheimer dominated the film categories with nine and eight nominations, respectively, while Succession is tops among TV shows, followed by The Bear and Only Murders in the Building. But don’t overlook Killers of the Flower, Poor Things, and Past Lives, or Beef, The Last of Us, and Jury Duty. There’s also a brand-new category, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, which is more or less an excuse to give a trophy to Taylor Swift. Can you blame them?

You can find out how to watch the Golden Globes here. Throughout the ceremony, hosted by comedian Jo Koy, we’ll update with winners in bold.

Best Motion Picture, Drama
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
Anatomy of a Fall

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
Barbie
Poor Things
American Fiction
The Holdovers
May December
Air

Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
Anatomy of a Fall
Io Capitano
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest

Best Motion Picture, Animated
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
The Boy and The Heron
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Wish

Best Television Series, Drama
1923
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
1923
The Morning Show

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Abbott Elementary
Barry
Jury Duty
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso
The Bear

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television
All the Light We Cannot See
Beef
Daisy Jones & the Six

Best Director, Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet, Wonka
Matt Damon, Air
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman, May December
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Brian Cox, Succession
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Dominic West, The Crown

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Helen Mirren, 1923
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Sarah Snook, Succession
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Emma Stone, The Curse

Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
James Marsden, Jury Duty
Alan Ruck, Succession
Alexander Skarsgård, Succession
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show

Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Elle Fanning, The Great
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones & the Six
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers
David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Steven Yeun, Beef

Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television
Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & the Six
Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen, Love and Death
Juno Temple, Fargo
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Ali Wong, Beef

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Chris Rock, Selective Outrage
Sarah Silverman, Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer
Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais Armageddon
Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact

Best Supporting Actor In A Television Series or Miniseries
Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travellers
Taylor Kitsch, Painkiller
Jesse Plemons, Love & Death
Lewis Pullman, Lessons in Chemistry
Liev Schreiber, A Small Light
Justin Theroux, White House Plumbers

Best Supporting Actress In A Television Series or Miniseries
Harriet Sloane, Lessons in Chemistry
Patti Yasutake, BEEF
Suki Waterhouse, Daisy Jones & the Six
Chloe Bailey, Swarm
Allison William, Fellow Travellers
Carla Gugino, Fall of the House of Usher

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Barbie
Poor Things
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall

Best Motion Picture Score
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Song, Motion Picture
“Addicted to Romance,” She Came to Me
“Dance the Night,” Barbie
“I’m Just Ken,” Barbie
“Peaches,” The Super Mario Bros. Move
“Road to Freedom,” Rustin
“What Was I Made For?” Barbie

The final week of the NFL season is always a fascinating one because there are different motivations at play for every team — and player. You have teams fighting for a playoff spot or division crown, while others just want to play spoiler for their divisional rival, even if they don’t have anything to play for themselves.

Then you have teams that have long since sewn up their playoff position, trying to run out the clock on the season without adding anyone to their injury list before the postseason begins. However, with 53-man rosters, you can’t rest everyone and some players do have something to play for, as the final week of the season often brings some contract incentive drama. Those players (and their teammates and coaches) are all keenly aware of those incentives and will celebrate accordingly when they hit one.

On Saturday, we saw Jadeveon Clowney earn a $750,000 bonus with a sack against the Steelers, leading to the most excited sack dance of the year. On Sunday, Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones (who held out the first week of the season) needed a half sack against the Chargers to hit a $1.25 million bonus for 10 sacks on the year, and got one when Easton Stick hit the deck in the third quarter, leading to Jones sprinting off the field where his teammates mobbed him.

It’s not quite Brett Favre sliding for Michael Strahan’s record-breaking sack, but Jones might want to send a little tip Stick’s way for making this one pretty simple for him.

The Chiefs were locked into the AFC’s 3-seed no matter what happened on Sunday, as they would play host to either the Dolphins or Bills on Wild Card weekend depending on who won Sunday night’s game between the AFC East rivals. That meant the focus for the Chiefs was on getting across the finish line of the season and, for Jones, getting his payday taken care of as quickly as he could, so he could then sit the rest of the way.

Taylor Swift’s star power is something to be studied, and thanks to Harvard University, you can. Last year, the Ivy League institution announced that the “Karma” singer would be the central focus of one of their newest course, “Taylor Swift and Her World.” Despite the public’s mixed reviews of the news, students at the university have enrolled in droves.

According to the school’s official website, almost 300 students have enrolled. Now, due to the overwhelming demand, they are seeking teaching assistants. On January 3, the professor for the class, Stephanie Burt, put out the open call on X (formerly Twitter).

“Ok, I’m doing this. Our Taylor Swift course at Harvard is so popular that we need additional teaching assistants. If you live in the Boston/Providence metro, love Tay, & have *qualifications or experience to teach a writing-intensive college course,* my DMs are open,” wrote Burt.

Although the posting emphasized that Harvard’s graduate students will receive priority, Swifties with a teaching background are encouraged to apply. In a statement to WBZ-TV, Burt described the inspiration behind the course. “Today she’s the most recognizable country– or formerly country? or pop? — artist in North America, if not the world: her songwriting takes in half a dozen genres, and her economic impact changes cities,” said Burt. “[Students] will learn how to study fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood, and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts, transatlantic texts, and queer subtexts.”

Last year, Taylor Swift was named Time’s Person Of The Year; this year, she could do it again.

The Golden Globes may be tonight, but the Oscars are still over two months off. Heck, the nominations haven’t even been announced yet. When they do, they may include a screenplay nod for Barbie, currently the 14th highest grossing motion picture (not adjusted for inflation, of course). But there’s a catch: Greta Gerwig’s blindingly pink comedy is reportedly being considered for the Adapted branch, not the Original one, despite it being an original story, based only on a toy brand. That decision has caused some uproar, including from fellow comedy maker Judd Apatow.

“It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material,” Apatow wrote on Twitter/X, as caught by Variety. “There was no existing material or story. There was a clear box.”

Does the director of Funny People have a point? Gerwig and her cowriter/now-husband Noah Baumbach were only “adapting” a line of dolls. They came up with a completely original story — one so out-there even they can’t believe they got away with it. (They still had to fight for some of what became the more popular moments, such as that “I’m Just Ken” song and dance.)

Moreover, it’s not like Warner Bros. Discovery, its parent company, thought they had a better chance for a nomination if they went the Adapted route. Indeed, they were gunning for Original.

The nominations are still a bit away, so there’s some chance, at least, for the Academy to let Barbie compete against the likes of May December (itself loosely inspired by a real life story), not fellow release date buddy Oppenheimer.

(Via Variety)

The Falcons and Saints met on Sunday afternoon in New Orleans with each holding slim playoff hopes. Both teams could win the NFC South with a win and a Bucs loss, but that was dependent on the 2-win Panthers being anything more than a corpse on offense, which they could not do in a 9-0 loss to a Tampa Bay team that certainly didn’t look strong.

Even so, the Saints could still make the postseason with some help from the late window with a win, and, even without any playoff ramifications, any time the Saints and Falcons meet the other side will want to get some bragging rights over their rivals. After a wild first half that saw the two teams go back and forth to a 17-17 tie, the second half was all Saints, as the Falcons imploded on both sides of the ball. Turnovers plagued Atlanta’s offense, which had a fumbled snap and two interceptions lead to New Orleans points, as the Saints ran it up to a 48-17 final score.

The last of those interceptions came after the Falcons pulled Desmond Ridder, with backup Logan Woodside tossing a near pick-six, where Tyrann Mathieu returned it to the one (after celebrating a bit too early and getting caught).

Instead of kneeling it out, the Saints opted to hand it off to Jamaal Williams out of victory formation for the touchdown.

That move didn’t sit well with Falcons head coach Arthur Smith, who was hot going to the postgame handshake (where there was no handshake) with Dennis Allen, yelling very clearly “why the fuck would you do that?” before the two exchanged words.

On the call, Tiki Barber wasn’t having it with Smith’s frustration, noting that if you want to do something about it, stop them from scoring.

Smith is surely on edge because he is on the hot seat in Atlanta — at minimum with the fans, who would almost all like him gone, and likely at least some with ownership who will have to make some decisions this offseason. However, making the matter even funnier is that Dennis Allen said after the game he told the guys to take a knee, but the players opted to run that play on their own for Williams.

Jameis Winston going rogue and calling an inside handoff out of victory formation is, honestly, the perfect way for this NFC South regular season to end.