MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Two football games 43 days apart in 2019 led to Tua Tagovailoa becoming the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins and Joe Burrow ending up with the Cincinnati Bengals.
One was a clash of two of the best college teams that season and the other a laugher between two of the worst NFL teams: The epic 2019 LSU-Alabama showdown on Nov. 9, 2019 and then the Dolphins-Bengals “Tank Bowl” on Dec. 22 that year.
Three years later, it’s a full-circle moment. Tagovailoa and Burrow are set to face off for the first time since they dueled for a path through the SEC West and to the national title game — if Tagovailoa is able to play through his back injury — when the Dolphins take on the Bengals in an 8:15 p.m. prime-time kickoff on Thursday night at Cincinnati’s Paycor Stadium.
