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Macaulay Culkin dresses as NFL lookalike Joe Burrow for Halloween
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Macaulay Culkin dresses as NFL lookalike Joe Burrow for Halloween

Macaulay Culkin takes to the gridiron in his Halloween costume.

On Thursday, October 31, Culkin, 44, shared two photos of himself dressed as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow on Instagram, drawing an apparent visual similarity between the Home alone Star and fifth-year NFL player.

“Game on @joeyb_9,” Culkin wrote in a caption to his post, tagging Burrow, 27, along the way. The quarterback responded to Culkin’s post, writing, “Touché sir touché.” The official Bengals Instagram account also commented on the post, writing their signature chant: “WHO DEY!!!”

“The ball is in your court, Joey B,” Culkin wrote in his own comment on the post; Many commentators called for Burrow to respond with a costume that echoed Culkin’s famous one Home alone character, Kevin McCallister.

The costume — and Halloween in general — proved an interesting topic when Bengals players spoke to reporters on Oct. 31, with Burrow’s teammate Ja’Marr Chase stating that Culkin “was definitely on top” in mimicking Burrow’s hair, according to a video of his conversation with reporters shared on X.

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“He finished it. But I mean, he’s just missing the shoulder pads, the pants and the cleats, but he’s there,” said Chase, a 24-year-old wide receiver. When asked by a reporter if he thinks Burrow and Culkin look alike, Chase laughed and said, “No, not at all.”

Joe Burrow on November 16, 2023.

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Burrow himself expressed a relative disinterest in Halloween during his own press conference, as seen in another video shared on social media.

“No,” he said in response to a reporter who asked if Burrow is “a big Halloween guy.”

“I don’t like to celebrate something just for the sake of celebrating it. I don’t know exactly what we celebrate there. Just, dressing up to dress up? I don’t know. I’m not a big dressing up guy,” he said. I’ve always been anti-dress code. If someone tells me to wear something, I don’t want to wear it. That’s how I’ve always been. Don’t know. I guess I’m a contrarian sometimes.”

“Yeah, that’s pretty cool,” he added when a reporter noted that kids who are Bengals fans could dress up as him for Halloween.