Three Jeopardy! contestants have already forgotten who scored the winning touchdown in Super Bowl 58.
Social media users were shocked and amused to see that none of the contestants on the April 1 episode knew the Kansas City Chiefs player that won his team the Super Bowl.
The question: ‘Will it be “How soon they forget” or “Always Remembered”? He caught the Super Bowl 58-winning pass for Kansas City.’
The correct answer was Mecole Hardman – a longtime wide-receiver for the Chiefs.
However, contestants Lilly Chin, Colby Burnett, and Sam Buttrey either didn’t attempt or get the answer correct.
‘How soon we forgot!,’ Ken Jennings exclaimed after he told everyone that Hardman was the correct answer.
X users were shocked and amused to see that none of the three Jeopardy! contestants from the April 1 episode knew that Mecole Hardman scored the Super Bowl 58-winning touchdown
Lilly Chin and Colby Burnett chose not to attempt to answer the question while Sam Buttrey made an incorrect guess
Hardman was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the NFL draft in 2019 and has won three Super Bowls with the Kansas City team, including Super Bowl 58.
The Chiefs went head to head with the San Francisco 49ers for this year’s big game.
Around 123.4 million viewers tuned into the big game and it became the most watched telecast and the second-most watched US broadcast in history.
Football fans everywhere that night watched Taylor Swift in the stands, an angry rant from Travis Kelce, and a dramatic game that went into overtime.
Hardman caught a short pass made by Patrick Mahomes for the winning touchdown in the last three seconds of the game.
Kelce had a significant amount of screen time on television and on the jumbotron during Super Bowl 58.
This factor may have been the reason why Jeopardy! contestant Sam Buttrey thought Kelce scored the winning touchdown that night.
Buttrey, who was the winner of the first-ever Jeopardy! Professors Tournament, thought the correct answer was Travis Kelce
Ken Jennings chuckled while telling the three contestants that Hardman was the correct answer and exclaimed ‘How soon we forgot’
Hardman scored the winning touchdown in overtime after Patrick Mahomes threw him the ball with three seconds left in the game. According to Jennings, Kelce was watching the winning touchdown on the jumbotron
Buttrey guessed Kelce right away after Jennings finished reading the question aloud.
The contestant lost $600 for not answering the sports question correctly.
According to Jennings, Kelce watched the game winning touchdown on the jumbotron.
Buttrey may have lost $600 for getting the question incorrect but he did come in first place and won a whopping $29,601 that night.
X users both found the question and incorrect answer amusing and one person even admitted in the comment section that they also forgot Hardman scored the winning touchdown.
X users gave a variety of comments about the incorrect answer and one person admitted in their tweet that they also forgot who scored the winning Super Bowl 50 touchdown
‘Who is Mecole Hardman? Is now a Jeopardy Question. But did they get it right? No, no they didn’t,’ an X user tweeted after watching the flub.
‘And the host was right, Travis stopped and looked up at the Jumbotron and watch the catch mid play LOL.’
More than one user who remembered that Hardman scored the touchdown were shocked and one person wrote that Hardman is a ‘star.’
One person tweeted that they liked the fact that sports questions were included in the Jeopardy! episode.
‘I love when they throw sports trivia in regular Jeopardy because it makes for some entertaining TV.’