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The Cincinnati Bengals threw for their first touchdown in Super Bowl LVI, but it came with a catch: Joe Burrow was not the one who threw the football. Cincinnati found itself down, 13-3, during the game’s second quarter, but managed to march down the field and get themselves into the red zone.

After Joe Mixon ran the ball on first-and-goal, it looked like Cincy was going right back to that well. Burrow pitched the ball to Mixon, but instead of trying to turn upfield, the Bengals’ standout running back kept moving horizontally. While people in living rooms and bars around the world assuredly started screaming “FAKE!,” the Los Angeles Rams‘ defense fell for it. As a result, Tee Higgins got behind everyone and was wide open in the back of the end zone. Rams safety Nick Scott couldn’t get there in time to break up the pass attempt, while Higgins had reservations for six.

As you can guess, it’s pretty rare that non-quarterbacks throw for a score in the Super Bowl. This marks the fifth time in NFL history that this has happened, and the first time since then-Philadelphia Eagles tight end Trey Burton threw to Nick Foles in Super Bowl LII.

This also marked the first pass attempt of Mixon’s NFL career, and we feel confident saying this was a pretty good time for it.

In what’s sure to be the most talked-about commercial of the Super Bowl (and not only because many ads were released in the days before the game), a floating QR code appeared on the screen near the end of the first quarter. Curiosity got the best of me and I, like thousands (millions?) of others, took out my phone to see what it was for. I should have known better: the QR code led to a website for Coinbase, which offered “$15 in free Bitcoin for signing up.” I don’t know what Coinbase, and honestly, I don’t care. But I do care that the ad pissed a lot of people when they realized what it was for.

“I scanned that QR code and lost $4.5 billion?????,” Parks and Recreation and The Good Place creator Michael Schur tweeted. “That QR code commercial just sent me into a reactionary tailspin,” sports personality Katie Nolan joked, while investor Joe Pompliano added, “Coinbase just spent $14 million for a color-changing QR code to bounce around on the screen for 30-seconds during the Super Bowl…”

That wasn’t a joke: the website did crash from the influx of traffic. Oops.

All publicity is good publicity, unless you’re a crypto website that crashes during the Super Bowl.

Here’s the ad:

(SPOILERS for this week’s Euphoria will be found below.)

This season of Euphoria has brought forth the start of new romances and the end of old ones. Things between Rue and Jules are a bit rocky after the latter sparked a tense and emotional intervention with help from Elliot and Rue’s family. Things have been heating up between Elliot and Jules and it remains to be seen where that goes in future episodes. Cassie is head over heels for Nate, who is the ex-boyfriend of her best friend Maddy, which sparks a love triangle that practically imploded last week on Euphoria. With that being said, there is one romance that has seemingly taken shape in the real world.

Are Dominic Fike And Hunter Schafer From Euphoria Dating?

All signs point to the answer being yes. Last month, the two Euphoria actors, who play Elliot and Jules respectively, were seen holding hands after they left The Nice Guy in West Hollywood. At the time, neither confirmed if things were more than platonic between them, but thanks to a new post from Fike, it’s clear that love is in the air. Last week, Fike shared a picture of him kissing Shafer to his Instagram Story. He captioned the picture, “Happy birthday happy birthday,” despite both of their birthdays being in December.

You can view the picture of Fike and Schafer below.

The Los Angeles Rams got on the board first in Super Bowl LVI. After the Rams and Cincinnati Bengals traded punts on their first drives of the game, Los Angeles went on a 50-yard drive over six plays that ended with Matthew Stafford dropping one directly into Odell Beckham Jr.’s arms. It’s Beckham’s first career Super Bowl reception, and it couldn’t have gone much better.

It was quite the moment for Beckham, who has been through a whole heck of a lot this season. His tenure with the Cleveland Browns came to a very unceremonious end amid near-constant rumblings of an inability to get on the same page with starting quarterback Baker Mayfield, and after the team finally decided to cut ties with him, Beckham ended up in Los Angeles, where he’s been quite important on this run to the Super Bowl.

One pretty prominent Browns fan is at the game, and could not be happier for his team’s former wide out. Someone at the game noticed that LeBron James was sitting right behind them, and after Beckham scored, the Akron native celebrated and danced in his box at SoFi Stadium.

Either James is very happy for his friend or he had an OBJ first scorer prop bet. Our hunch is it’s the former.

The Moon Knight trailer showed off Oscar Isaac entering the MCU without being the prototypical Marvel protagonist. The show looks trippy and psychologically taxing (at least for Isaac’s character) and quite unlike anything we’ve seen on Disney+ before now. And in this Super Bowl spot, the chaos grows ever more trippy and taxing.

Disney+’s Moon Knight streams on March 30.

For those of us country fans who are passionate about expanding diversity within the genre — word to Jason Isbell — the recent success of Mickey Guyton has been a boon. This rising country star isn’t afraid to speak on the subjects that are closest to her heart, releasing the song “Black Like Me” last year, following up on themes addressed in the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. But her debut full-length, Remember Her Name was also an incredible addition to country music last year, and it earned Guyton three Grammy nominations in this year’s ceremony.

So for anyone who has been paying attention, the NFL’s decision to tap Guyton for the National Anthem at this year’s Super Bowl made perfect sense. And she was in fine form for her moment in the spotlight today, absolutely belting out the anthem to kick off one of the most important sporting events of the year. Another great addition to her setlist would’ve been Mickey’s own early hit, “Rosé,” but hey, we can’t have everything. Check out her performance up above, and if you want to get a headstart before she likely wins a few awards at this year’s Grammys, stream her 2021 album, Remember Her Name right here.

The MCU’s cranking back to life in theaters (after the bang-up Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the underwhelming Eternals, and the box-office-storming Spider-Man: No Way Home) with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness starring Benedict Cumberbatch after WandaVision and Loki cracked open the multiverse. We’ve already seen an extensive teaser that revealed some consequences for Doctor Strange f*cking with the Multiverse a little too much. He’d asked for help from Wanda and learned that he’s apparently the universe’s greatest threat. It’s a lot!

And it’s about to become even more overwhelming with this full-on trailer, which shows how, even though Wanda Maximoff initially seems receptive to helping Strange, she’s not exactly pleased about this: “You break the rules… and become the hero. I do it, and I become the enemy. That doesn’t seem fair.”

Yup, Wanda’s brand of Chaos Magic certainly isn’t regarded as kindly as the heroics of Strange. She’s got a valid complaint there for sure, and we’ve already seen her (at the end of WandaVision) studying the Darkhold, so one can expect her to wield that knowledge here. The trailer also follows up on the very brief synopsis from Marvel Studios, which points towards Dr. Stephen Strange screwing up (even more) by “cast[ing] a forbidden spell that opens a portal to the multiverse.” Then “a threat emerges that may be too big for his team to handle.” Won’t someone please listen to Wong?

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hits theaters on May 6, 2022.

Jhene Aiko and Big Sean are clearly fans of the LA Rams, even if they were mistaken for another celebrity couple at a recent game. The couple that makes music together, and watches sports together, stays together, chyron troubles be damned. Undeterred, Jhene showed up at Super Bowl LVI today, ready to honor her country and her team. She wasn’t singing a track off her Grammy-nominated album, Chilombo, but the oh-so-patriotic “America The Beautiful.”

Along with rising country star Mickey Guyton, who was tapped to sing the National Anthem this year, Aiko helped open this year’s Super Bowl with her rendition of the classic patriotic tune. In true Aiko fashion, there was plenty of soulfulness and her own twist on the standard. Check out her performance up above and stay tuned for a lot more music coming your way today.

The Super Bowl halftime performance is always a big deal for any artist, but this year, Dr. Dre organized an all-star cast that includes Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Mary J. Blige. And with rumors of a new single from Kendrick Lamar spreading like wildfire, that show is definitely not a music moment to miss, even if you’re not necessarily a sports fan.

The Super Bowl is here and that brings with it the largest sports betting card of the year. With mobile betting apps and legal sports betting in more and more places, every week offers a veritable smorgasbord of player and team props, but there is still nothing that comes close to the prop sheet for the Super Bowl.

As we did a year ago, we are going to try and track every bet for the Rams and Bengals in this year’s Super Bowl, updating throughout the night to help you keep track of all the props. We are pulling our numbers from Caesars Sportsbook, so there may be some differences depending on your book of choice, but for the most part these should be pretty close to the consensus numbers across the board. We are not tracking the more exotic props (cross-sport props, etc.) or any of the combo props, but we’ll hit all individual player stat props, team stat props, first player props, and as much as we can.

We will list the player and their Over/Under numbers below, separated by prop type, and they’ll get a bolded OVER when they cross that mark or an UNDER at the end of the night if they fall short. When a first prop gets completed, we’ll bold it and bold the winner of the prop.

We hope you have a successful night on the prop sheet and for those of you who just want to keep track of what bettors are sweating out there, hopefully this is a one stop shop for you to track it all.

COIN TOSS

Heads (-105) vs. Tails (-105)

First Props

Who Receives Opening Kickoff: Rams (-120)
Opening Kickoff To Be Touchback: Yes (+100)
What Happens First: Sack (-110)
First Team In Red Zone: Rams (-130)
First Team To Score: Rams (-135)
First Touchdown Will Be: Passing (-200)
First Rams TD Will Be: Passing (-200)
First Bengals TD Will Be: Any Other Type (+145) vs. Passing (-175)
Team To Punt First: Rams (+100)
Team With First TD Pass: Rams (-130)
Team To Commit First Turnover: Rams (-130) vs. Bengals (+100)
What Happens First For Matthew Stafford: TD (-270)
What Happens First For Joe Burrow: TD (-240) vs. INT (+200)
What Happens First For Bengals: Punt (-160) vs. Score (+130)
What Happens First For Rams: Punt (-130)
First Scoring Play Will Be:
Team With First Charged TO: Rams (-140) vs. Bengals (+110)
Team With First Made FG: Rams (-115) vs. Bengals (-115)
Team With First Sack: Bengals (+160)
First Turnover Of Game Will Be: INT (-180) vs. Fumble (+150)
First Score Of Game Will Be: TD (-170)

First Player Props

Matthew Stafford Yards Of First Completion: Under 7.5 (+100)
Joe Burrow Yards Of First Completion: Over 7.5 (-125)
First Pass By Matthew Stafford Will Be: Complete (-200)
First Pass By Joe Burrow Will Be: Complete (-200)
Matthew Stafford Yards Of First TD Pass: Over 10.5 (-110)
Joe Burrow Yards Of First TD Pass: Over 9.5 (-140) vs. Under 9.5 (+110)
Cam Akers Yards Of First Rush: Over 3.5 (+100) vs. Under 3.5 (-130)
Sony Michel Yards Of First Rush: Under 3.5 (-130)
Cooper Kupp Yards Of First Reception: Over 11.5 (+100)
Odell Beckham Yards Of First Reception: Over 10.5 (-115)
Joe Mixon Yards Of First Rush: Under 3.5 (-130)
Ja’Marr Chase Yards Of First Reception: Under 11.5 (-130)
Tee Higgins Yards Of First Reception: Over 11.5 (-115) vs. Under 11.5 (-115)
Tyler Boyd Yards Of First Reception: Under 8.5 (-115)
First Touchdown: Odell Beckham Jr. (+850)

Overall Bengals Player Props

Trey Hendrickson Sack: Yes (-140)
Joe Burrow Passing TDs: Over 1.5 (-160) vs. Under 1.6 (+130)
Joe Burrow Passing Yards: Over 276.5 (-125) vs. Under 276.5 (-105)
Joe Burrow INTs: Over 0.5 (-140) vs. Under 0.5 (+110)
Joe Burrow Completions: Over 24.5 (-110) vs. Under 24.5 (-120)
Joe Burrow Pass Attempts: Over 36.5 (-105) vs. Under 36.5 (-125)
Joe Burrow Longest Completion: Over 38.5 (-120) vs. Under 38.5 (-110)
Joe Burrow Rushing Yards: Over 11.5 (-130) vs. Under 11.5 (+100)
Ja’Marr Chase Rushing Yards: Over 3.5 (-135) vs. Under 3.5 (+105)
Joe Mixon Rushing Yards: Over 60.5 (-110) vs. Under 60.5 (-120)
Joe Burrow Rushing Attempts: Over 2.5 (-130) vs. Under 2.5 (+100)
Joe Mixon Rushing Attempts: Over 16.5 (+100) vs. Under 16.5 (-130)
Joe Mixon Rush+Receiving Yards: Over 89.5 (+100) vs. Under 89.5 (-130)
Samaje Perine Rush+Receiving Yards: Over 17.5 (-115) vs. Under 17.5 (-115)
Joe Mixon Receiving Yards: Over 25.5 (-110) vs. Under 25.5 (-120)
CJ Uzomah Receiving Yards: Over 26.5 (-115) vs. Under 26.5 (-115)
Samaje Perine Receiving Yards: Over 10.5 (+100) vs. Under 10.5 (-130)
Tee Higgins Receiving Yards: Over 69.5 (-105) vs. Under 69.5 (-125)
Ja’Marr Chase Receiving Yards: Over 79.5 (-115) vs. Under 79.5 (-115)
Tyler Boyd Receiving Yards: Over 43.5 (-105) vs. Under 43.5 (-125)
CJ Uzomah Receptions: Over 3.5 (+155) vs. Under 3.5 (-190)
Ja’Marr Chase Receptions: Over 5.5 (-130) vs. Under 5.5 (+100)
Joe Mixon Receptions: Over 3.5 (-130) vs. Under 3.5 (+100)
Samaje Perine Receptions: Over 1.5 (-120) vs. Under 1.5 (-110)
Tyler Boyd Receptions: Over 4.5 (+140) vs. Under 4.5 (-170)
Tee Higgins Receptions: Over 5.5 (-110) vs. Under 5.5 (-120)
Joe Mixon Longest Reception: Over 12.5 (-105) vs. Under 12.5 (-125)
CJ Uzomah Longest Reception: Over 13.5 (-120) vs. Under 13.5 (-110)
Ja’Marr Chase Longest Reception: Over 27.5 (-110) vs. Under 27.5 (-120)
Tyler Boyd Longest Reception: Over 18.5 (+100) vs. Under 18.5 (-130)
Tee Higgins Longest Reception: Over 24.5 (-105) vs. Under 24.5 (-125)

Overall Rams Player Props

Matthew Stafford Passing TDs: Over 1.5 (-220) vs. Under 1.6 (+180)
Matthew Stafford Passing Yards: Over 284.5 (-125) vs. Under 284.5 (-105)
Matthew Stafford INTs: Over 0.5 (-135) vs. Under 0.5 (+105)
Matthew Stafford Completions: Over 23.5 (-130) vs. Under (+100)
Matthew Stafford Pass Attempts: Over 35.5 (-110) vs. Under (-120)
Matthew Stafford Longest Completion: Over 38.5 (-120) vs. Under 38.5 (-110)
Matthew Stafford Rushing Yards: Over 6.5 (+105) vs. Under 6.5 (-135)
Cam Akers Rushing Yards: Over 60.5 (-110) vs. Under 60.5 (-120)
Sony Michel Rushing Yards: Over 19.5 (-115) vs. Under 19.5 (-115)
Cooper Kupp Rushing Yards: Over 0.5 (+170) vs. Under 0.5 (-210)
Matthew Stafford Rushing Attempts: Over 2.5 (-145) vs. Under 2.5 (+115)
Cam Akers Rushing Attempts: Over 15.5 (+100) vs. Under 15.5 (-130)
Sony Michel Rushing Attempts: Over 5.5 (-125) vs. Under 5.5 (-105)
Cam Akers Rush+Receiving Yards: Over 80.5 (+100) vs. Under 80.5 (-130)
Sony Michel Rush+Receiving Yards: Over 29.5 (-105) vs. Under 29.5 (-125)
Van Jefferson Receptions: Over 2.5 (-135) vs. Under 2.5 (+105)
Kendall Blanton Receptions: Over 3.5 (+150) vs. Under 3.5 (-180)
Sony Michel Receptions: Over 1.5 (+185) vs. Under 1.5 (-230)
Odell Beckham Jr. Receptions: Over 5.5 (-105) vs. Under 5.5 (-125)
Cooper Kupp Receptions: Over 8.5 (-105) vs. Under 8.5 (-125)
Cam Akers Receptions: Over 2.5 (+150) vs. Under 2.5 (-180)
Cooper Kupp Receiving Yards: Over 102.5 (-120) vs. Under 102.5 (-110)
Cam Akers Receiving Yards: Over 15.5 (-125) vs. Under 15.5 (-105)
Van Jefferson Receiving Yards: Over 32.5 (-115) vs. Under 32.5 (-115)
Kendall Blanton Receiving Yards: Over 30.5 (-115) vs. Under 30.5 (-115)
Odell Beckham Jr. Receiving Yards: Over 64.5 (-125) vs. Under 64.5 (-105)
Odell Beckham Jr. Longest Reception: Over 23.5 (-110) vs. Under 23.5 (-120)
Kendall Blanton Longest Reception: Over 15.5 (-105) vs. Under 15.5 (-125)
Cam Akers Longest Reception: Over 10.5 (-115) vs. Under 10.5 (-115)
Van Jefferson Longest Reception: Over 17.5 (-125) vs. Under 17.5 (-105)
Cooper Kupp Longest Reception: Over 28.5 (-130) vs. Under 28.5 (+100)

Overall Team Props

Team With Most Net Yards: Rams (-160) vs. Bengals (+130)
Team With More Third Down Conversions: Rams (-150) vs. Bengals (+120)
Team With More Offensive Plays: Rams (-145) vs. Bengals (+115)
Team With Most First Downs: Rams (-170) vs. Bengals (+140)
Team With Longest Punt Return: Rams (-145) vs. Bengals (+115)
Team With Most Punts: Rams (+110) vs. Bengals (-140)
Team With Longest Kickoff Return: Rams (+105) vs. Bengals (-135)
Team With Most Made FGs: Rams (-110) vs. Bengals (-120)
Team With Most Rushing Yards: Rams (-175) vs. Bengals (+145)

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, which means folks across the world are going to forget about their diets for one evening and consume food that is fried or covered in sauce or, if they are eating chicken wings, both. One such person appears to be Mike Greenberg, ESPN‘s longtime Swiss Army knife of a personality who has seemingly hosted everything during his tenure with the Worldwide Leader.

Greeny posted a picture to his Twitter account of himself having a pregame meal and wait a second is that a goddamn knife and fork.

This is not the first time that Greenberg’s eating habits — i.e. using a knife and fork — have been in the spotlight, but with today being Super Bowl Sunday, he decided to get a post off and remind everyone that this is his go-to method for eating stuff. Seriously, he went into this in 2020 and it’s a lot.

“I eat everything with a knife and fork,” Greenberg said. “Literally everything. You name it, I eat it with a knife and fork. The answer is yes — right now, wherever you are, if you’re scraming out options at me, the answer is yes. I eat pizza with a knife and fork, I eat wings with a knife and fork, I eat sandwiches with a knife and fork, I eat everything — hamburgers, with a knife and fork — for exactly that reason. I don’t like to get things on the fingers. I’m not as worried about it getting in my eyes, I don’t like when your fingers smell after you eat something, you get mustard on them, or ketchup, or whatever it might be. Literally anything. I don’t like the feeling of it, I also don’t like my disgusticting (?) hands touching the food that I’m then eating at any time — I was germaphobic, I didn’t need a pandemic to be a germaphobe.”

He goes on to say he eats cookies with a knife and fork. Mike, my man, I say this to you as someone who ran into you at the old NBA Store in New York City on multiple occasions in the mid-00s: It is fine if you get food on your fingers.