The AFC playoff field is down to four teams fighting for a Super Bowl LX berth, setting up a matchup between Bo Nix and the No. 1 seed Denver Broncos and Josh Allen and the No. 6 seed Buffalo Bills in the divisional round on Saturday.
There is plenty of history between the Bills and the Broncos, who faced off in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs last season. Allen led the Bills to a 31-7 win at home against the Broncos, completing 20 of his 26 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns.
It turns out Allen's wife, actress Hailee Steinfeld, has her own priors with the Broncos. This week, a photo resurfaced showing Steinfeld in a Broncos jacket when they played in the Super Bowl in February 2016.
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Fans on social media urged Steinfeld to delete the old post, which was captioned "HELL YEAH BRONCOS!!!!" after they defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 to win the Super Bowl.
CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson, who will be a part of CBS' broadcast team for the Bills-Broncos game at 4:30 p.m. ET Saturday, caught wind of the social media commotion and used her access to quiz the Bills' quarterback about the viral photo of his wife. Allen laughed it off and admitted he had "no idea" about it.
"Asked Josh about this pic and he told me he had no idea it was floating around," Wolfson reported on X Thursday evening. "Laughed and said she was probably paid to be there. And that he definitely wasn’t going to bring it up at home."
At the time the photo was taken, Steinfeld was 19 years old and years away from meeting Allen, who was still playing college football for the Wyoming Cowboys.
As Allen suggested to Wolfson, Steinfeld's appearance at a Super Bowl would have been a valuable marketing move at the time, given her growing popularity in 2016 through acting roles in "True Grit" and the "Pitch Perfect" series.
Nowadays, the "Sinners" actress is a full-time supporter of Allen and the Bills. The two stars got married in May before announcing in December that Steinfeld is pregnant with their first child.
“I try to organize my time so I can be where he is,” Steinfeld said of her priorities during football season. “This time of year, I get to hunker down, slow down, support him and live life.”
Saturday's game will be televised on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.