{"id":828347,"date":"2026-03-23T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828347\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:03:12","slug":"bengals-joe-burrow-shares-surprising-olympics-take-for-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828347\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals&#8217; Joe Burrow shares surprising Olympics take for 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 22, 2026, 8:43 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/22\/joe-burrow-injury-risks-flag-football-terrorize-bengals-fans\/89274664007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Burrow worried some fans with his physical showing<\/a> in the Fanatics Flag Football Classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But it wasn\u2019t just Burrow being Burrow: It was almost by design, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During the media circus around the event, Burrow didn\u2019t pull any punches when talking about his desire to hit the Olympics someday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to play in the Olympics,\u201d Burrow said, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/20\/joe-burrow-considers-olympic-flag-football-bengals-qb-had-gold-medal-thoughts\/89249951007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve never necessarily played an Olympic sport before, so when this got announced, I was pretty excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Burrow continued: \u201cThe opportunity to win a gold medal [is] something that I\u2019ve thought about &#8211; a moment like that &#8211; for a long time, since I was a kid. I think it would be something very special,\u201d Burrow said.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In 2028, flag football will be an Olympic sport for the first time during the games in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Despite Burrow\u2019s quotes here, it remains unclear whether NFL players will actually compete for and make the U.S. Olympic team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The fact NFL players got whipped by actual flag football players in a big way doesn\u2019t help that outlook very much. In the pursuit of gold, the team will want the best flag football players, so NFL players with different skill sets might be left behind in the race to make the roster while they focus on their own particular sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Roger Goodell has said in the past that USA Football will handle the selection process of the 10-man roster and years sit between now and that happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 22, 2026, 8:43 p.m. ET Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow worried some fans with his physical showing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95913,96121,95896,95888,107490,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-828347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagjoe-burrow","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagolympics","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116276271889603388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}