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The Detroit Lions are adding depth to their tight end position ahead of their biggest game in franchise history. According to ESPN, the Lions are signing Zach Ertz to a contract. He will start on the practice squad and then be elevated for the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, according to NFL.com.

Ertz was released by the Arizona Cardinals in November. According to his former teammate J.J. Watt, Ertz asked to be released so he could sign with a contender and “make a run at his 2nd Super Bowl ring.” Ertz won his first Super Bowl when he was with the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2017 season. He was traded to the Cardinals in October 2021 after spending nearly nine seasons with the Eagles. In his career, Ertz was named to the Pro Bowl in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

In 2023, Ertz played in seven games and caught 27 passes for 187 yards. He has been on injured reserve since Oct. 24 with a quad strain at the time of his release. In 2022, Ertz suffered an ACL and MCL injury in Week 10 and returned for the 2023 season opener.

The Lions were looking for help at the tight end position after Brock Wright suffered a forearm injury in their playoff win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Rookie tight end Sam LaPorta has been battling a knee injury he suffered during a regular-season finale. The Lions are playing in their first conference championship game since the 1991 season and looking to play in their first Super Bowl in franchise history. Lions head coach Dan Campbell has been a big key to the team’s success, as he has built a winning culture.

“Dan is the greatest leader I’ve been around and has cultivated this culture that we have and our belief in each other pretty significantly,” Lions quarterback Jared Goff said, per the team’s official website. “Yeah, you think about the dark times early on in 2021, a lot of people calling for his head. A lot of people in this room calling for his head. It’s pretty good to be able to sit up here playing in the NFC Championship. It feels good.”

The winner of the Lions-49ers game will face the winner of the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Baltimore Ravens AFC Championship game at Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11.

‘Super Bowl Greatest Commercials’ 2024 Special Revealed at CBS

The Super Bowl special will air on CBS right before the big game.

Super Bowl LVIII is only a few weeks away, which means it’s time to take a look back at some of the most memorable Super Bowl commercials. On Tuesday, CBS announced its interactive show, Super Bowl Greatest Commercials XXIII: The Ultimate Countdown will premiere on Friday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The show can also be streamed live on Paramount+ and will be hosted by Boomer Esiason, an analyst for CBS Sports’ THE NFL TODAY, and actress Daniela Ruah. The special will air from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, the home of Super Bowl LVIII which will kick off on Feb. 11 on CBS, Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.

For the last 22 years, CBS has ranked the best Super Bowl commercials, and 12 different ads have ranked either first or second in viewer voting. Esiason and Ruah will rank these finalists in an Ultimate Countdown before revealing their two favorites. The viewers will then decide the winner via a live online vote at the end of the show.

Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight will provide sideline commentary as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes looks and sneak peeks at 2024 spots. Last year, PopCulture.com spoke to Frazier about the 2023 show. “Think about it. Throughout time there have been great commercials, but if you group them by decade, you see a trend,” he said. “The early ones with John Madden and Mean Joe Greene in the Coca-Cola ad. You jump to the ’90s and superstars and supermodels, Cindy Crawford in the Pepsi ad, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird.”

Frazier continued: “You jump to the 2000s, it’s animals, the Clydesdales and other things. The 2010s, you get the user-submitted ads from Doritos. So there’s always a trend. You see all these different ads over time, but which decade had the best? That’s what we’re going to figure out. We’ll take you on a walk down memory lane, and you will get to relive some of the greatest commercials ever. And then there’ll be a QR code at the end of the show that you can scan on screen and you can vote, because who knows better than the people who’ve sat at home and watched all these commercials? We all watched the Super Bowl. We all know these ads.”

Zac Efron’s Movie ‘The Iron Claw’ Has Fans Leaving Theaters in Tears

While movies like Wonka are offering moviegoers a cheery time, Zac Eron’s new movie is giving them a whole field of emotions. The Iron Claw is a drama inspired by the Von Erichs, a legendary professional wrestling family plagued by tragedy. The movie paints both the highs of the family’s lives — including their tight-knit bond — and the heartbreaking lows. (Click here for to find showtimes at a movie theater near you.)

Many Efron fans and general film watchers have been going into the movie assuming it was a feel-good sports flick. However, they are leaving are seeing one of the most moving films of the past year. Several videos of fans in tears leaving the cineplexes have taken off on TikTok, in addition to other reactions from the public shared around the internet. Continue on to see some of the tearful reactions to The Iron Claw.

“my review of the iron claw is that it was so sad i almost threw up in the theater from crying so much,” one fan wrote on X. A second added, “The Iron Claw was so f—ing sad. I don’t remember the last movie I was at where everyone was loudly crying like that.”

“Wish I coulda hugged my brother after this one,” a third X user wrote. “This movie crushed me, what a performance from Holt McCallany as the father. This movie will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. What a great tribute to such a tragic story. A24, the best.”

“I just watched iron claw and had to hold back a gasping sob so hard that I thought I was going to puke,” another moviegoer wrote on X. “I got in the car and immediately started crying again.”

“Wiping Tears Away”

“A heartbreaking tragedy steeped in Americana,” film critic James Preston Poole wrote on X. “Efron, White, Simon, and Dickinson add such interiority to their portrayal of the Von Erich family that it makes what happens sting so much more. Artful, empathetic, and at times exhilarating. Wiping tears away.”

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