NFL Twitter loved Bengals trolling Chiefs with Joe Burrow contract extension announcement

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September 7, 2023 9:24 pm ET

Somewhat lost in the chaos of the Cincinnati Bengals agreeing to a five-year contract extension with Joe Burrow was the impact it had on the Kansas City Chiefs.

After all, the announcement of the $275 million deal with $219 million in guarantees ($188 million more than any other player in Bengals history) just so happened to occur right as the Chiefs raised a Super Bowl LVII banner at Arrowhead while kicking off the 2023 NFL season on Thursday night.

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Petty? Tactical? Unintentional?

If nothing else, hilarious, given the intense rivalry that has suddenly popped up between two of the NFL’s best teams. Here are some of the best reactions from this revelation.

I was thinking all day “what if the Bengals drop the news as the Chiefs start playing football wouldn’t that be funny”

and then they did it, the madlads

$55M a year to keep Burrow in Cincinnati through 2029 https://t.co/eqIxdD0vtT

— Jake Liscow (@JakeLiscow) September 8, 2023

Did the Bengals just steal the Chiefs’ thunder with a kickoff-timed announcement!?

— Rebecca Toback (@Rebecca_Toback) September 8, 2023

#Bengals and Burrow dropping this deal at kickoff of the 104th #NFL season is less about sticking it to the #Chiefs and more about NOT wanting all the attention.

It’s a good day to be a Bengals fan.

— Austin Elmore (@autyelmore) September 8, 2023

petty af of the bengals to announce the burrow extension right when the chiefs game starts. i love it.

— brianna pirre (@bsp_13) September 8, 2023

The Bengals announcing Joe Burrow’s extension minutes after the Chiefs kick off is so unnecessarily petty.

— Dave Kluge (@DaveKluge) September 8, 2023

The Bengals announcing Joe Burrow’s contract extension during the kickoff of the Chiefs game is incredible.

Planning: 💯 Execution: 💯

— 🥔 (@salzmann__) September 8, 2023

It’s funny, chiefs and lions are playing a game right now and everyone is talking about burrow and the bengals 🫢🫢

Who Dey!!!

— Lord Dylan Guthrie (@Dylanguthrie18) September 8, 2023

The Bengals leaking the news of Burrow’s extension as the Chiefs game starts is funny.

— Brandon Little (@BrandonLittleBL) September 8, 2023

The Chiefs-Bengals rivalry is so petty and I love it

— Adam Beasley (@AdamHBeasley) September 8, 2023

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