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NFL star Josh Allen pranks local reporter by freezing on live TV

The scene was reminiscent of the NBC hit show "The Office," the NFL said in a post.
Josh Allen in a golf polo, gray baseball cap and sunglasses, freezes and stares into the camera as a reporter holds a mic in front of him.
Allen froze during an interview with CBS Sacramento.Courtesy CBS Sacramento
/ Source: TODAY

Forget football, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen needs to get into acting.

Allen recently went viral in a local news clip shared by the NFL as he pranked a reporter who was live on the air.

"Could be a character in the office 😂" the official league account posted on TikTok.

CBS Sacramento’s Jake Gadon approached Allen during the American Century Championship, an annual celebrity golf tournament for charity, on the south shore of Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada, earlier this week. 

"Do you have one second? We're live on Sacramento." Gadon tells the football player.

"We're live?" Allen replies, freezing and staring into the camera for several seconds too long.

"We're very live, Josh," one of the anchors in the background can be heard saying nervously.

Then Allen breaks out laughing.

"I'm just kidding!" he chuckles as the anchors and reporter laugh uproariously.

"It's great, we're having a great time," he says. Allen went on to joke that they were drinking a High Noon — an alcoholic seltzer — at each hole.

Allen's talents don't stop there. A video from NBC Sports showed the quarterback sinking several hoops with a basketball on the sidelines of the golf tournament.

"Josh Allen can do it all," NBC Sports captioned the video.

It's not the first time Allen has dabbled in comedy. In a May 2024 video, Allen starred in a YouTube video reveal of the Bills' upcoming schedule that would not have been out of place on "Parks and Rec."

The video showed Allen living in a tent in the construction site of the new Bills stadium, which is slated to open in the fall of 2026.

"It's not so bad," he said while cheerfully practicing his golf swing and watering plants.

Allen isn't the only athlete with jokes at the annual golf tournament. Travis Kelce won a karaoke contest this week and dedicated his win to girlfriend Taylor Swift. Kelce sang Whitesnake’s 1982 hit "Here I Go Again."

His brother, former Philadelphia Eagles player Jason Kelce, won the longest drive contest and also autographed a baby.

"Gimme a baby, I’ll sign it," the "New Heights" X account shared alongside the video of the former NFL player signing the baby's back.