Joe Burrow found out his house had been burglarized shortly after he led the Cincinnati Bengals to a key win over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season.
The quarterback shared exactly how he reacted to the news, which came on the eve of his 28th birthday.
‘Of (expletive) course this happened to me right now,’ Burrow said in the sixth episode of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ series. ‘When you’re on cloud nine, something’s gonna bring you right back down.’
Burrow wasn’t so much concerned with what the burglars stole at the time of the break-in. He told Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo in footage included in the Netflix series that they had mostly taken his jewelry and that it was insured.
‘They could have stolen way worse things than that,’ Burrow said.
The Bengals quarterback was more bothered by the invasion of privacy he felt as a result of the burglary.
‘I just get very uncomfortable,’ Burrow said during the series’ sixth episode. ‘My life is very public. That comes with the job, but there’s certain parts of your life that are yours. Your house is one of those. When that gets violated, people find out where you live, all these different things.’
Those ‘different things’ included information about the location of Burrow’s house, an increased media presence surrounding his house following the break-in and his connection to social media personality Olivia Ponton – who was at Burrow’s house the night of the burglary.
Burrow acknowledged in his discussion with Anarumo that he was considering whether he would need to move because of the burglary.
Burrow also elected not to go through with his purchase of a replica Batmobile in the wake of the break-in, a prospect about which he previously expressed excitement on the in-season edition of HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks.’
‘I didn’t end up getting the Batmobile because I just had other things I wanted to deal with at that point,’ Burrow said on ‘Quarterback.’
Three men associated with the burglary at Burrow’s house – 22-year-old Jordan Francisco Quiroga Sanchez, 23-year-old Bastian Alejandro Orellana Morales and 38-year-old Sergio Andres Ortega Cabello were indicted in Hamilton County in February on charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and burglary. The trio were also indicted on federal charges in connection with the burglary of Burrow’s home.
Burrow did not acknowledge those indictments on ‘Quarterback,’ but he did explain the late-season ordeal left him feeling ‘very vulnerable.’
‘Not everybody’s failures at their job are in front of the whole world,’ Burrow said. ‘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.’