Some jokes fade. This one? Absolutely refuses.

Ryan Gosling is finally addressing the NFL meme that’s followed him for over two decades – and honestly, he’s taking it better than most would.

Appearing on the New Heights podcast with Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce, Gosling didn’t try to dodge the joke tied to his role in Remember the Titans. Instead, he leaned all the way in.

“It doesn’t matter what I accomplish in my life… there’ll always be someone saying, ‘Never forget he’s a liability at corner,'” he said, smiling.

If you know. You know.

For years, football fans have clung to that one storyline – Gosling’s struggling cornerback getting burned on defense – and somehow turned it into a permanent part of NFL internet culture. Oscar nominations? Box office hits? Doesn’t matter. The meme always wins.

The best part? The Kelce brothers didn’t even hesitate. They burst out laughing like they’d been waiting for this moment, instantly proving just how deep the joke runs in football circles.

And that’s really the story here. Not the movie, not the career glow-up – but the internet’s ability to pick one tiny moment and never let it go.

Gosling gets it now. By laughing along, he’s basically flipped the script. The joke isn’t at his expense anymore – it’s a shared punchline.

Still, fair warning: no matter what he does next, the internet has already decided.

Cornerback Ryan Gosling? Forever under review.

Lionel Messi scored his 900th career goal on Wednesday to become the second player to reach the mark in elite men’s football after Cristiano Ronaldo.

The 38-year-old Argentine World Cup winner brought up the milestone with a left-footed strike in Inter Miami’s 1-1 draw with Nashville SC in the Concacaf Champions Cup.

The 900th goal came 21 years after Messi scored his first in senior football for Barcelona as a 17-year-old in 2005.

Inter manager Javier Mascherano said Messi’s tally was “insane”.

“I’ve been lucky enough to see most, or many, of the goals he’s scored, much closer than you all, and that’s a privilege,” he added.

“The number we’re talking about is insane, and that’s why Leo is a one of a kind.”

Messi, who has won the Ballon d’Or eight times, reached the landmark in his 1,142nd appearance for club and country, nearly 100 games fewer than Ronaldo, who took 1,236 games to reach the milestone in September 2024.

Portuguese forward Ronaldo has now reached 965 goals and has targeted the 1,000-mark before he quits the game.

The majority of Messi’s goals came during his spell at Barcelona, where he scored 672 times. He added 32 at Paris St-Germain and 81 for Inter Miami and scored 115 for Argentina, with whom he won the World Cup in 2022.

Messi’s teammates have been able to depend on him at crucial times with 175 of his goals coming in knockout matches, including 35 in finals.

His 129 goals in Europe’s Champions League is second only to Ronaldo’s 140.

Messi’s milestone goal came on a bittersweet night for Miami, who exited the competition on away goals after the first leg of their tie ended 0-0.

On December 18, Hollywood isn’t just releasing movies, it’s staging a cinematic war.

Two titans, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three and Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, are locked in a high-stakes stand-off over the same release date.

Theaters, still recovering from years of drought, are bracing for an avalanche.

“Somebody’s gotta move,” one exhibitor groaned, warning of an “overwhelm that doesn’t make sense.”

Unlike the playful ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon of 2023, this isn’t a quirky mismatch.

Both films target overlapping audiences: broad, male-skewing, blockbuster-hungry fans.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Dune 2 drew 68% male viewers, skewing older while Avengers: Endgame pulled a 60/40 split, with Millennials and Gen Z leading the charge.

This time, the overlap means cannibalization is real.

Fans may choose one for theaters and save the other for streaming, leaving billions potentially on the table.

The real drama lies in the premium screens.

Dune 3 has locked down IMAX exclusivity for three weeks, leveraging Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle shot with IMAX cameras.

Marvel, astonishingly, will be shut out of IMAX, a move exhibitors call “insane” and “free money left behind.”

Without IMAX, Avengers: Doomsday risks losing its premium punch, while Dune positions itself as the ultimate big-screen experience.

The week before Christmas is the most coveted corridor in cinema.

Families are free, audiences are primed, and spoilers loom large.

Marvel fans rush to avoid leaks, while Dune 3 promises shocking departures from Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah.

Two juggernauts, one date, and a spoiler-fueled race to theaters: It’s a perfect storm.

At a January event, Robert Downey Jr. joked with Timothée Chalamet,

“We both have films opening on Dec. 18, and we decided to coin it — we’re thinking Dunesday. We’ll see if we’re still friends by then.”

It was playful banter, but beneath the humor lies a billion-dollar rivalry that could reshape holiday box office history.

The big question remains: Will one studio flinch, or are we truly headed for ‘Dunesday’ — a cinematic collision where only audiences win, and theaters brace for chaos?