Joe Burrow, quarterback of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, made a very special announcement to his teammates, that he bought a ‘Batmobile’, a replica of the vehicle of the fictional hero Batman… for 2.9 million dollars!
“Did I tell you I bought a Batmobile? I won’t have it for another year, but I bought one,” Burrow confessed to teammates Tee Higgins and Ja’Marr Chase during a Bengals practice.
Did I tell you I bought a Batmobile? I won’t have it for another year, but I bought one.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow
The 27-year-old passer informed his teammates of his purchase during the premiere episode of ‘Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North’, which airs on the HBO platform. The first episode of this series follows what happens during training and the intimacy of the Bengals, Steelers, Ravens and Browns, teams that make up the North division of the American Conference.
The vehicle of the so-called ‘Dark Knight’ made its appearance in the film The Dark Knight, released in 2008, directed by Christopher Nolan. Since then Wayne Enterprises Experience, a luxury shopping platform, offers several exclusive items that appeared in Nolan’s films about Batman and his alter ego, the millionaire Bruce Wayne, DC Comics characters.
Among these items, this platform has put on sale 10 replicas of the ‘Batmobiles’ with an official license from the brand that are functional. Burrow’s ‘Batmobile’ will be equipped with a 525-horsepower engine, a smoke screen exit system, imitation gun turrets and a simulated jet engine, which obviously won’t make the vehicle jump great distances. like in the movies.
I think I have to go all out and buy an expensive bat suit
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow
“I think I have to go all out and buy an expensive Batsuit,” Burrow, who is a fan of the DC Comics character, told Chase.
This car will be one more in the collection of luxury vehicles that the player has, among which there is also an electric all-terrain vehicle, customized with the colors of the Bengals, from the Lordstown Endurance brand, a company with which Burrow has a partnership since 2020.
Joe Burrow is the second highest-paid quarterback in the NFL with an annual income of $55 million, only below the $60 million earned by Dal Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys.
