Joe Burrow didn’t hide his disappointment after coming up short in his first Super Bowl. Leading for most of the second half, the Bengals allowed a late touchdown that they were unable to answer in the final moments of their 23-20 loss to the Rams in Super Bowl LVI.
“It hurts,” said Burrow, whose first ever playoff loss came on football’s biggest stage. “We put a lot of work into going out there and executing and performing well, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to. It’s disappointing.”
Burrow also looked towards the future of himself and his team. He offered a similar variation of a quote previous runner-ups have uttered moments after losing the big one.
“We’re a young team. You’d like to think that we’ll be back in this situation multiple times over the course of the next few years,” he said. “We take this and let it fuel you for the rest of our careers.”
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