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Meet the kid who got Tee Higgins’ TD ball. (It hasn’t left his side)

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His look of unbridled shock was one of the standout moments in the thrilling Cincinnati Bengals game in Madrid.

Meet Jackson Pohl, the 11-year-old Bengals fan who was given a football from Tee Higgins after the star wide receiver scored a touchdown in the second quarter.

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You couldn’t help but adore Pohl and his reaction − mouth wide open, eyes huge and eyebrows raised to the top of his forehead.

A day after the game, Pohl recounted his experience to The Enquirer in a video interview on Monday, Nov. 9. The Amsterdam resident, wearing a Bengals cap, oozed enthusiasm.

“So Joe Burrow throws the ball, Tee Higgins catches it, and he stands still looking at the fans for a second. Then he starts jogging over and I realize, ‘Oh my God, he’s going over to my section,'” Pohl said.

“And then he’s going straight towards the more populated area of fans. And I’m like, ‘Oh, he’s going to give the ball or give like a high five to one of them.’ But then he makes a cut, and then goes right.”

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“And then all of a sudden, the ball’s in my hands, and he’s walking away and I’m like, ‘What just happened?,” Pohl said with a big smile.

The football hasn’t left Pohl’s side since.

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He plans to put it in a display case in a particular spot so that every time he wakes up, he’ll see it. “And it’s just going to like automatically start my day off in the right track,” he said.

Pohl is a Los Angeles native who moved to Amsterdam at age 10 with his family for his mother’s job.

He became a Bengals fan after watching quarterback Joe Burrow during Super Bowl LVI, when the Bengals played the Los Angeles Rams.

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“I was like, ‘He is so good. I want to be just like him when I’m older,'” he said.

And, sure enough, Pohl is a footballer himself. The young quarterback plays for a team called the Amsterdam Crusaders. The first season he was there, the team went undefeated and won the Dutch championship, he told The Enquirer.

Pohl’s goal is to play in the NFL someday. And to play for the Bengals? Well, he said, “Dream come true.”

Though Burrow may be the reason Pohl became a Bengals fan, Higgins has won over the 11-year-old’s heart. When asked who his favorite player is, Pohl said that’s “actually a very tough question now.”

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“Basically, I would say the whole team. Everyone on the team,” he said, before adding, “especially Tee.”

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Meet the kid who got Tee Higgins’ TD ball. (It hasn’t left his side)

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