The Cincinnati Bengals are on a historic playoff run, led by second-year quarterback Joe Burrow. In honor of his son's AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Burrow's father tweeted a photo of him as a child wearing a Chiefs helmet.
Joe use to like those shiny red chiefs helmets . Not anymore . Geaux Bengals . pic.twitter.com/dqijN5u9ST
— Jimmy Burrow (@CoachBurrow) January 28, 2022
In his tweet Friday morning, Jimmy Burrow noted that while his son liked “those shiny red Chiefs helmets” in the past, he doesn't anymore.
Later that afternoon during his news conference, one reporter referenced the tweet and asked Burrow about his past relationship with Kansas City.
Joe Burrow meets with the media ahead of the AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs. https://t.co/y2IyYZF31Q
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) January 28, 2022
“I was probably a Chiefs fan before I can remember being a Chiefs fan,” the Bengals quarterback laughed. “I was probably too young to remember all that, but I still have that little plastic helmet in my room back home.”
Burrow was born in Iowa in 1996, where the majority of NFL fans are either Chicago Bears fanatics or Chiefs fans. He lived there until his father's college coaching career moved the family to North Dakota in 2003. His father's job then forced them to move once again in 2005, this time to Ohio, where Burrow played high school football from 2011 to 2014.
Burrow's love for the Chiefs likely died out as he moved farther from Kansas City, but there's definitely still a piece of him that loves the team. Why else would he have kept “that little plastic helmet” all these years?
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