Joe Burrow's House

Joe Burrow is the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback who won the 2019 Heisman Trophy at LSU and reached the Super Bowl in his 2nd NFL season. The Bengals took him first overall in 2020.

This is the Burrow family home, bought by his parents rather than by Joe. Jimmy and Robin Burrow bought in The Plains in 2005, when Ohio University hired Jimmy away from North Dakota State as defensive coordinator.

Joe’s own deals are in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports he owned a home in Columbia Tusculum, then paid $7.5M for an Anderson Township estate in July 2023.

When the pandemic shut NFL facilities in 2020, the No. 1 pick came home. ESPN reported that he took Zoom calls with Bengals coaches from the basement while his Heisman Trophy rested on the floor of another room.

People were building in The Plains long before any subdivision. Ohio University dates the local earthworks to between 300 BC and 200 AD, in the Adena and Hopewell eras.

The Plains holds most of Athens County’s more than 70 earthworks, The Post in Athens reported in 2012, though researchers flattened many of them. The county’s largest stands 37 feet high on private land and has never been excavated.

Most stories file Burrow under Athens, 9 miles away. In The Plains, that gets corrected: his youth coach told the AP in 2022, “he is not from Athens.”