Five years from now, when the Bengals have won three Super Bowls and the entire NFL world outside Cincinnati loathes everything in orange and black, we can pinpoint the moment where everything changed, where the Bengals went from lovable scamps to world-beating terrors:
Right there. During pregame warmups in Buffalo, an underdog against the mighty Bills, amidst tens of thousands of table-jumping fanatics, Burrow was so chill that he was flicking blind passes and pirouetting on his heel, holding the pose just long enough for the cameras to see. This video is like something out of"Glass Onion," all the clues right there in front of us if only we'd paid closer attention.
Sure, all the images of rivals embracing and “so wholesome!” tweets of players playing catch with kids are fine. But you know what really drives sports fandom? Pure, uncut loathing, the desire to beat the smirk right off the face of the other guy. And nobody smirks these days quite like Joe Burrow. Since the Bengals toilet-swirled the Bills on Sunday, their victory lap looks like the start of something much, much bigger. Start with Burrow’s cold dismissal of the NFL’s neutral-site dreams: “Better send those refunds,” he said on the field Sunday night, a mic dropped hard enough to crack the earth's crust.
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