Cincinnati - Cincinnati Bengali people are bringing this path to Thanksgiving. Ideally, quarterback Joe Burrow prefers to be at home.

Cincinnati played the 13th holiday game with Cincinnati's division rival Baltimore Ravens, who won AFC North in a back-to-back season. As his team again played in Baltimore in prime time, Burrow made a mocking request to the NFL program maker.

"The fourth consecutive prime time game in Baltimore is not ideal," Burrow said after a voluntary workout on Tuesday. "Maybe we can get one of them in Cincinnati next year. Please."

The Bengals have played nightly games at the M&T Bank Stadium for the past three seasons. All of them were failing, including 35-34 losses in the 10th week of last year.

The game features the most successful teams in the North of the AFC. The Bengals won the division in 2021 and 2022, and then the Ravens won the division title in 2023 and 2024. Baltimore has played against Cincinnati for four consecutive games.

Bengal coach Zac Taylor responded to Burrow's comments and said the team would rather host more prime time games in the salary stadium. This year, three of the four night games held in Cincinnati are road races.

However, Taylor pointed to the success of the team in these situations last season. Cincinnati won three of the team’s five major road games in 2024, and the coach said the team is taking on challenges ahead of the year.

“It’s really exciting to play on Thanksgiving nights and the whole world is sitting on the couch,” Taylor said Tuesday. “That’s why you’re in this business.”

But it's not just the prime time game Burrow wants. He also expressed his hope that Bangladeshis would obtain international fixtures. Bangladesh executive vice president Katie Blackburn told reporters at the NFL annual league meeting in April that Cincinnati missed the game as Dolphins in Spain this year and did not intend to win international competition until 2027.

Burrow said he agreed to play in the Netflix show "Quarterback" partly because of expanding the league's footprint internationally.

"It's a bit disappointing to not have such a stage," he said. "I feel like I've consciously tried to try to grow the game internationally for the past 18 months or so. Hopefully, at some point in my career we can go there."