New Cincinnati Bengals offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. had a little fun with Cincinnati mayor Aftab Pureval while revealing a big NFL game for the upcoming season.
The Bengals will play a hotly anticipated game against the Kansas City Chiefs for Week 17’s New Year’s Eve extravaganza, one of marquee matchups the NFL teased ahead of Thursday’s 2023 schedule reveal.
The Bengals announced the game via Pureval, who just says when the game is and hilariously cuts his message short while Brown filmed it.
The former Chiefs tackle jokes that he thinks this message “was better than the last time,” a friendly jab at Pureval’s cringey taunting video ahead of January’s AFC title game where he basically said Joe Burrow was Patrick Mahomes’ father.
.@ZEUS__57 and @AftabPureval with an important message…
📺: May 11, 8 PM | NFLNetwork | NFL+ pic.twitter.com/O3cretqpzZ
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) May 10, 2023
As you’ll recall, the Bengals wound up losing to the Chiefs in that championship game. Kansas City won the Super Bowl, and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce even called out Pureval’s taunting during his post-Super Bowl speech.
While Bengals fans surely appreciate the ardent support from their mayor, they’ll probably caution him doing too much taunting against the reigning Super Bowl champs this season. Good on Pureval for having a sense of humor about the whole thing, though.
