Among the most shared clips of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow from the new season of “Quarterback,” the Netflix documentary featuring Burrow, Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins, features the Bengals’ QB talking about how “sick” the fossils were at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, which he visited with teammates.
The new season also features Burrow telling head coach Zac Taylor that the Bengals’ effort in a win was “f—— embarrassing,” and Burrow explaining that the burglary of his home in December 2024 forced him to cancel the purchase of a Batmobile and consider moving.
“Somehow there’s this one fossil that proved Darwin’s theory of evolution,” Burrow says during one episode. “It’s called the Archaeopteryx. There’s like 12 of them in the world. We got to see one of those, and we got to see the little old lady that freaking works on it. Grinding. We went to the natural history museum. They took us behind the scenes and showed us some really cool stuff. It’s like a library of fossils that they don’t show everybody else. It was like you go to the shoe store, and they’re like, ‘Maybe we have it in the back.’ And it was like all the fossils back there. It was pretty sick. And they had the career like field guy that goes and finds them talking to us about it. It was pretty cool. … They did have some eggs. Why were fossils on my mind? I don’t know. Because they’re cool. When aren’t fossils on your mind? They go back millions of years. That’s sick.”
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: ‘When aren’t fossils on your mind?’: Joe Burrow amped-up over natural history museum visit
Reporting by Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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