The Luehrman twins, Adam and Ryan, who were Joe Burrow's best friends and favorite receivers growing up in Athens, Ohio, as well as lifelong Bengals fans, could have worn anything to their first game watching their buddy easing in as the franchise quarterback of their franchise Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium.
They've got everything from a No. 85 Chad Johnson to a No. 85 Tyler Eifert.
Ryan, who owns A.J. Green's color rush No. 18, almost wore the Eifert jersey, "because he's with the Jaguars. I miss having him and he's a good dude."
Adam, who has a throwback Boomer Esiason jersey, also has a Carson Palmer No. 9. But if they weren't going to wear Joe's No. 9, how could they wear that one? And how could you wear your friends' jersey without getting abused?
So Adam settled on a Bengals sweat shirt and Ryan went with a Bengals quarter-zip. They both had Bengals hats. On the drive back to Athens they ended up talking jerseys.
"It was surreal to see all the Burrow jerseys" Adam said Monday, the day after Burrow's first NFL win. "I didn't expect there to be that many. It seemed like every single person had a Burrow jersey, which was really cool."
Two of them were Jim and Robin Burrow, Joe's parents. "We joined right in," said Jimmy Burrow, a football coaching lifer who can go to games anywhere any time now that he's retired as Ohio University's long-time defensive coordinator.
Coach Burrow, whose brief NFL career ended in Riverfront Stadium 44 years ago, saw his son walk off another turf field Sunday in downtown Cincinnati knowing he'd be back again with his first NFL win under his belt.
That's the image Joe Burrow's dad drove home to Athens with from the 33-25 victory over the Jaguars. Joe, the last guy on the field after he took a knee. Running into the locker room. The fans cheering for him.
"When you see that and then I watched it again on a video today," Coach Jimmy Burrow said Monday, "you can just know he was excited about the day and any thing I'm reading today makes me even more proud that he's playing with Cincinnati, close to home and they got that first win."
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