Joe Burrow Canceled Plans to Buy a Batmobile After His Home Burglary: 'Other Things That I Wanted to Deal With'
- - - Joe Burrow Canceled Plans to Buy a Batmobile After His Home Burglary: 'Other Things That I Wanted to Deal With'
Sean NeumannJuly 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Joe Burrow; The 'Tumbler' Batmobile
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow had planned to purchase a $2.9 million Batmobile replica before his home was broken into last December
Burrow, 28, said there were "other things that I wanted to deal with at that point" besides the Batmobile
Burrow confirmed the series of events in a new interview as part of Netflix's Quarterback series
Joe Burrow famously had big plans to buy a Batmobile — but a high-profile burglary at his home last December prompted him to rethink the purchase.
Burrow, 28, is one of three quarterbacks alongside Detroit Lions starter Jared Goff and Atlanta Falcons starter Kirk Cousins who are featured in the latest season of Netflix’s Quarterback series. In the sixth episode of the series, cameras capture the moments Burrow finds out that his Cincinnati area house was broken into and he was robbed while he was out of town playing a game against the Dallas Cowboys.
The incident happened during Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Monday Night Football game in Dallas.
"Of f------ course this happened to me right now,” Burrow says in an interview later on about the incident, noting that the 2024 NFL season had been full of ups-and-downs for him and the team. “When you’re on cloud nine, something’s gonna bring you right back down. It just felt like the kind of year that it was”
Netflix producers then ask Burrow whether the home break-in was the “impetus to cancel” his plans to purchase a $2.9 million Batmobile from Wayne Enterprises, a plan the quarterback first revealed during HBO’s Hard Knocks series earlier in the year.“Yeah,” Burrow tells producers. “Yeah, that was, uh, you know, that’s… I didn’t end up getting the Batmobile because I had other things that I wanted to deal with at that point.”
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Joe Burrow
Burrow had been in line to purchase one of 10 Batmobiles being sold by the entertainment studio as replicas of the high-tech cars driven by Christian Bale's Batman in the 2010s superhero trilogy.
The Bengals quarterback made the revelation that he purchased the car during the Dec. 3 episode of Hard Knocks, which aired about one week before burglars broke into his Hamilton County, Ohio home.
Burrow addressed the incident later that week while speaking to members of the media after a Bengals practice, telling reporters he didn’t want to discuss the issue further.
"I feel like my privacy has been violated in more ways than one and way more is already out there than I would want out there, and that I care to share, so that's all I got to say about that," Burrow said.
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Joe Burrow
In the new season of the Netflix series, Burrow explains that his lack of privacy is one of the toughest parts about his job as an NFL quarterback.“I just get uncomfortable when my life is very public and you know that comes with the job, but there’s certain parts of your life that are yours, and your house is one of those,” Burrow says. “When that gets violated and people find out where you live and all these different things, not everybody’s failures at their job are in front of the whole world. It’s a very vulnerable position to be in. I put myself in that position because I love it. I don’t like the other part of it.”
The break in came amid a string of robberies seemingly targeting professional athletes, and two months after the Kansas City-area homes of Chiefs stars Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes were burglarized within 48 hours of each other. The string of robberies — which have also hit NBA players in Minnesota and Massachusetts, and an NHL star in Pennsylvania — may be linked to a South American crime ring, multiple sources told ABC News and Fox 4 Kansas City in November 2024.
Four people were later charged with felonies in connection with Burrow’s home burglary after police discovered photos of them posing with stolen items from the quarterback’s home, PEOPLE reported in February.
Season two of Quarterback is now streaming on Netflix.
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