Joe Burrow: Touchdown in Love
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In St. Louis, Julius has built a life defined by his own rules. He has a rewarding career, loyal friends, and an unapologetic obsession with the Cincinnati Bengals. As a confident, openly gay black man, he lives his truth authentically. He has everything except the one thing that matters most.
Joe Burrow has the fame, the records, and the world watching his every move. But behind the icy stare and the media training, he is suffocating. He has the world at his feet, but nowhere to be real.
Everything changes the night they meet at a charity gala. A spark of curiosity ignites a connection that breaks every rule, and Julius finds himself living a dangerous fantasy: the wallpaper on his computer is becoming the man in his bed.
As late-night texts turn into shared secrets, the stakes skyrocket. Navigating a relationship across two cities is hard enough, but hiding it from the NFL is a ticking time bomb. When the secret becomes too big to contain, they face the ultimate choice: protect the brand, or risk it all for the truth of what they found in each other.
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