Macaulay Culkin dressed up as NFL lookalike Joe Burrow for Halloween

Macaulay Culkin heading to the grid in a Halloween costume.

On Thursday, Oct. 31, Culkin, 44, shared two photos of himself dressed as the Cincinnati Bengals defensive end. Joe Burrow to Instagrampointing out the obvious visual similarities between Alone at home All-star and fifth-year NFL player.

“Game on @joeyb_9,” Culkin captioned his post, tagging the 27-year-old Burrow. The quarterback responded to Culkin’s post in the comments, writing: “Touché sir touché.” The official Bengals Instagram account also commented on the post, writing their own signature chorus“WHO DO IT!!!”

“The ball’s in your court, Joey B,” Culkin wrote in his own comment on the post; many commentators called for Barrow to respond with a costume echoing the famous Culkin Alone at home character Kevin McCallister.

The costume — and Halloween in general — proved to be a hot topic when Bengals players spoke to reporters on Oct. 31, with Burrow’s teammate Ja’Marr Chase saying Culkin was “definitely present” by mimicking Burrow’s hair, according to a video of his conversation. with reporters divided by X.

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“He pulled it off. But, I mean, he’s just missing the shoulder pads and the pants and the cleats, but he’s got them,” said Chase, a 24-year-old wide receiver. When a reporter asked him if he thought Barrow and Culkin looked alike, Chase laughed and said, “Not at all.”

Burrow himself expressed a relative lack of interest in Halloween during his press conference, as seen in published another video on social networks.

“No,” he said in response to a reporter who asked if Burrow was a “big Halloween guy.”

“I don’t want to celebrate something just for the sake of celebrating. I don’t know exactly what we’re celebrating there. Just dressing up to dress up? I don’t know. I don’t really dress up,” he said. “I’ve always been against the dress code… if someone tells me I have to wear something, I don’t want to wear it. I’ve just always been that way. I don’t know. I guess I’m the opposite sometimes.”

“Yeah, it’s pretty cool,” he added when a reporter pointed out that kids who are Bengals fans could dress up as him for Halloween.