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A multi-millionaire tried to buy Batman's most iconic tool, but an international crime gang but the stop to it. No, that's not the plot of an upcoming DCU movie - it's not even fiction. It came straight from Netflix's Quarterback season 2, as Bengals QB Joe Burrow shared his real life dream to own a replica crimefighting machine, only to have it quashed by real-life criminals.

ESPN recounted the story in an article published July 8, wherein they recounted the 2024 installment of Hard Knocks, in which the Bengals star player revealed that he would be purchasing a replica Batmobile. And we're not talking about a knockoff, either, this thing was the real deal (well, maybe sans the grabbling hook) and would've cost the football player a whopping $3 million (at least, that's the going price of one according to ESPN).

But then, in December of 2024, an organized criminal gang broke into Burrow's Cincinnati home, itself purchased for $7.5M in 2023. 

"I didn't end up getting the Batmobile," Burrow tells Netflix's popular football doc, "Because I just had other things I wanted to deal with at that point."

But the chance to sit behind the Batwheel isn't the biggest loss that came out of the highly-publicized robbery and following court proceedings. According to the NFL player, the worst of the consequences is the loss of his privacy.

"The whole world knows where I live now," Burrow said, "That hasn't been very fun to deal with."

Quarterback is streaming now on Netflix.

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