Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
UPDATE 9:34 PM ET: Jaxon Smith-Njigba has officially been cleared from his concussion and has returned to the game. UPDATE 9:15 PM ET: Jaxon Smith-Njigba has since been discharged from the medical tent, but the NBC broadcast reported and showed him headed into the tunnel and into the locker room. It’s being reported that JSN […]
February 8, 2026
One of Super Bowl 60’s most anticipated and most marquee ads was the collaboration between Pringles and Sabrina Carpenter, who brings her undeniable charisma and her well-documented dating woes to the magic of the original canned chips. Indeed, as you can see in the video below, there’s as much comedy in the bit as there […]
February 8, 2026
Netflix walked into Super Bowl LX like it owned the room, because nobody expects a streamer to spend that kind of cultural capital mid-game, let alone on a deep-cut character spinoff. The shock wasn’t just “new trailer” energy—it was the pivot: commercials are supposed to sell a product, and instead the broadcast briefly turned into […]
February 8, 2026
You knew Bud Light was going to roll out the bags and zeroes for this year’s Super Bowl 60 commercial, and they sure didn’t disappoint. Their stellar ensemble of Peyton Manning, Shane Gillis, and Post Malone hangs out together at a wedding, at which the natives are getting restless for the keg. Indeed, as soon […]
February 8, 2026
This crop of Super Bowl ads isn’t subtle—it’s loud, star-studded, and built to feel like mini-events rather than “commercials.” The shared spirit is commitment: brands take one simple idea, crank it to absurd theater, and let the joke do the explaining. A lot of them lean on comfort-food nostalgia—songs, sitcom energy, familiar faces—because the fastest […]
February 8, 2026
Guy Fieri shows up as “Just a Guy”—brown hair, clean shave, zero swagger—until a Bosch appliance or power tool hits his hands and the full Flavortown persona snaps back on. The bit keeps firing in everyday scenes—sad sandwiches, job-site uncertainty—because the brand promise is simple: Bosch turns “regular” into confident on contact. It’s a transformation […]
February 8, 2026
T-Mobile turns its Times Square store into a surprise mini-concert, then drops the hook like it’s 1999 again. Backstreet Boys runs “I Want It That Way” with rewritten lyrics that hammer “best network / best value / perks” in big, clean neon. Druski plays the superfan pressure valve, getting absurdly emotional as the store turns […]
February 8, 2026
Squarespace lets the Lanthimos–Stone machine cook in crisp black-and-white, as she hunts for emmastone.com with the urgency of a missing passport. Every attempt snaps back “Unavailable,” and the panic escalates into gleeful destruction—keyboards, screens, and composure all catching stray blows. Watch the Squarespace Super Bowl 60 ad It plays like a micro-noir horror short about […]
February 8, 2026
Instacart turns grocery logistics into neon theater, with Ben Stiller and Benson Boone posing as a throwback Europop duo making a full-blown anthem out of bananas. Boone squeals sky-high hooks and throws in acrobatic flips while Stiller plays the irritated deadpan man, and the joke lands because it’s all selling one oddly specific flex: you […]
February 8, 2026
After the honorary captains were brought out to the field for the coin toss, Joe Montana delivered the official flip. Bettors heading into the game were able to wager on the predicted result, with both Heads and Tails as options at -103 odds on DraftKings Sportsbook ahead of the game. The official result is heads. […]
February 8, 2026
All week, the air around this game has been thick with the stuff that sounds good in a segment. Sam Darnold has a roster-bonus on Tuesday that’s getting treated like it’s somehow a Super Bowl subplot, and Klint Kubiak keeps getting discussed both as Tom Brady’s crowned prince and the guy designing the impossible-to-defend offense. […]
February 7, 2026