A social media post showing Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow with some sort of protective cast on his throwing hand made the rounds on X, formerly Twitter, last week before the club deleted the video. Burrow exited the Thursday Night Football game with a wrist injury, and it was announced he would miss the rest of the season. CBS Sports Radio host Jim Rome says he doesn’t dabble in conspiracies anymore, but could be led to believe one about this instance.
During The Jim Rome Show Friday, the legendary sports radio host argued that he used to enjoy thinking up conspiracy theories, until others took the fun too far. However, he said a common thought floating on social media was the NFL wanted the Bengals to conceal Burrow’s injury to not damage potential viewership of Amazon Prime Video’s lone package with the league.
“So you’ve got yourself a good conspiracy right there. And then it only got better. You only got more and more wild more and more creative. More and more creative theories. Beyond that, including that the league itself was behind it. The conspiracy being because TNF has been so horrendous, they needed to keep people interested in the one decent TNF game. They wanted to storm the betting action so the league was in on it all, allegedly,” said Jim Rome.
“Listen, we all know people love their conspiracy theories these days. It’s like hate is the new dopamine. But crafting conspiracy theories is the next best drug and I get it. I used to love them, too. Notice I said I used to love them, too until people stopped enjoying them responsibly. Take anything else. Gamble responsibly. Drink responsibly. Use conspiracy theories responsibly. Most of the time these days, people’s conspiracy theories are exhausting. They’re ridiculous, and they don’t stand a chance.”
He did continue by noting that conspiracy theories about the NFL and its television partners “might not be so ridiculous”.
