The newly engaged Hailee Steinfeld was prepared for Payments playoff soccer Sunday.
The long run Mrs. Josh Allen, whose game-day appearances usually fly underneath the radar, took in Buffalo’s 31-7 wild-card win over Denver from Highmark Stadium in Western New York, the place she sat in a collection with associates and fellow Payments WAGs.
Steinfeld, who revealed her engagement to Allen in November, was seen rocking a Payments baseball cap as she sat subsequent to Paige Buechele, the spouse of backup quarterback Shane Buechele, Tayler Bernard, the companion of linebacker Terrel Bernard and Hallie Watson.
Allen and the Payments dominated the Broncos on Sunday, with the MVP candidate going 20-for-26 for 272 yards and two touchdowns.
“At the end of the day, we just wanted to come out and play our best football, and I feel like we did that today,” mentioned the quarterback, who didn’t flip the ball over as soon as.
The second-seeded Payments will now host the No. 3 seed Ravens within the Divisional Spherical subsequent Sunday.
Lamar Jackson, a fellow MVP frontrunner, guided Baltimore to a 28-14 win over Pittsburgh of their wild-card conflict Saturday evening.
The winner of Payments-Ravens will face the victor of subsequent Saturday’s Texans-Chiefs showdown within the AFC Championship recreation on Jan. 26.
The Chiefs have thwarted the Payments’ playoff runs over the previous few years.
Kansas Metropolis topped Buffalo within the AFC Championship in January 2021. A yr later, the Chiefs narrowly defeated the Payments with an extra time victory within the Divisional Spherical.
The Payments fell to the Chiefs once more in final yr’s Divisional Spherical.
Although it stays to be seen if the Payments will write a distinct ending to their season this yr, 2024 has been nothing in need of a fairytale for Allen and Steinfeld, each 28.
First linked in 2023, the previous first-round choose proposed to the actress-singer throughout the Payments’ bye week.
“The funniest thing was that we woke up and were getting ready for brunch and you jumped on the bed and said, ‘Can we get married already?!? What are you waiting for??!’” Allen mentioned of Steinfeld as he recalled the proposal in December.
“I replied, ‘Just give me a little more time.’ Little did you know I was about to propose to you.”
Buffalo has welcomed its “queen” with open arms.
Earlier than Sunday’s recreation, CBS Sports activities’ lead NFL reporter Tracey Wolfson posted a photograph of a billboard on X that celebrated the couple’s engagement.
“The queen has a new city,” the signal learn, referencing Steinfeld. “Congratulations, Josh and Hailee.”
