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Fresh off a miraculous comeback win against the Dolphins on Monday Night Football, Titans rookie quarterback Will Levis was feeling himself a bit on Wednesday—so much so that he appeared to pitch himself as the new face of Levi’s. 
When talking to reporters, it was brought up that Levis’s last name is often autocorrected to the popular clothing company when typing it out, and he pounced at the chance to become the new face of the popular brand. 
“Hey, they got a heck of a company,” Levis told reporters Wednesday. “I’m a big fan of their jeans.

Let’s get it out of the way: Browns quarterback Joe Flacco is old. He is a capital-M Millennial (with the 1985 birth certificate to prove it) in a league increasingly given over to Generation Z. He was college teammates with Larry Fitzgerald, who has been out of football for three years. FCS was still called Division I-AA when he transferred from Pittsburgh to Delaware.
However, the true measure of Flacco’s age is this: he has children old enough to provide feedback on his game.

Patrick Mahomes defended Kadarius Toney and the Chiefs’ wide receivers Wednesday.

Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce addressed the incredible lateral play that wasn’t in Sunday’s loss to the Bills.
Kelce, who caught a deep pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, threw a bullet lateral to a wide open Kadarius Toney for a long go ahead touchdown against the Bills late in the fourth quarter, but the play was called back because Toney was lined up offsides.
The controversial play sparked strong criticism of the game’s officiating from Mahomes and coach Andy Reid after the game, while Toney himself was the center of plenty of barbs for not lining up properly.

No condiment divides a nation quite like mayo. People either love it on a level that makes the rest of us very uncomfortable or hate it with a white-hot passion. We now know we can put Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Taylor Swift dater Travis Kelce in the latter camp.
Kelce revealed his disdain for the divisive condiment on a recent episode of his New Heights podcast. He and his brother Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce were talking about a sandwich named in honor of their podcast, which just happened to include a dash of mayo.
Jason was all about this.

Opposing quarterbacks preparing for the Chiefs while fielding Taylor Swift questions ahead of matchups just seems to be the norm these days. Patriots’ Bailey Zappe was no exception.
Zappe stood on the podium at Wednesday’s press conference and had one thing he had to get off his chest: He’s not not a Taylor Swift fan.
The 2022 fourth-round draft pick told reporters he was a fan of “country” Taylor but not “pop” Taylor and clarified some comments he made about the singer before.
“I’m a country guy. I listen to country music,” Zappe said.

The NFL announced Wednesday that it will play a game in São Paulo, Brazil in 2024 as part of its International Series. The game will mark the first time the NFL plays a game in South America as it continues to grow the game beyond the United States.
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer reported Tuesday that the NFL was considering a game in a new country during its owners meetings this week, with São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Madrid, Spain the finalists.

The PGA Tour’s legal fees increased from $2 million in 2021 to $20.7 million in 2022. The 10x increase in legal costs is a direct result of its early battle with the Saudi PIF and LIV Golf, which makes the fact that the Tour is currently in merger talks with the Saudi PIF a full-circle moment in the most literal way imaginable.
Sportico obtained the PGA Tour’s IRS filings that span the 2022 calendar year.

In December 1984, National League club owners gathered at the MLB winter meetings in Houston. They had something important to discuss. One of their own had drawn up a shocking, unprecedented contract for a free agent: Atlanta owner Ted Turner had offered six years and more than $9 million to reliever Bruce Sutter.
This could have been perfectly fine, except that roughly half of that money would be deferred, scheduled to be paid out with interest in annual installments from 1991 to 2021.
It was unheard of.

Late in the second quarter in the Nuggets’ eventual win over the Bulls, Nikola Jokić jogged back up the floor after a missed basket (on which he was probably fouled), turned back and yelled at a referee.
Only seconds later, Jokić was assessed for a technical foul and then immediately ejected.
The situation was unique in a couple of ways. First, Joker was ejected after only one technical foul, crew chief Mark Lindsay told a pool reporter after the game.