{"id":290722,"date":"2023-09-16T01:39:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=290722"},"modified":"2023-09-16T01:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:39:31","slug":"jj-watt-on-drinking-beer-and-playing-poker-with-burnley-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/jj-watt-on-drinking-beer-and-playing-poker-with-burnley-players\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Watt on drinking beer and playing poker with Burnley players"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Burnley minority owner JJ Watt lifts the lid on drinking beer and playing poker with Vincent Kompany&#8217;s players during title celebrations: &#8216;Those are the moments that make it so special&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>JJ Watt became a minority owner at Premier League club Burnley earlier this year<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Watt asked Vincent Kompany if there were aspects of the NFL that he admires<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>JJ Watt has revealed that he was drawn into playing poker and drinking beers with Burnley&#8217;s players after their Championship title win last season.<\/p>\n<p>Watt, who is still only 34, headed to Lancashire for the parade to toast their title-winning campaign under Vincent Kompany.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was reunited with the Burnley manager for a conversation on Men in Blazers\u00a0this week and Watt opened up on the conflict of socializing with players of a similar age &#8211; when he is technically their boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A couple of months ago, during the parade, I came in &#8211; obviously now I&#8217;m part of the ownership group, I&#8217;m no longer a player &#8211; all the boys were getting ready for the parade,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/19\/75484791-12523753-JJ_Watt_revealed_he_was_drawn_into_playing_poker_and_drinking_be-a-33_1694800989343.jpg\" height=\"348\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>JJ Watt revealed he was drawn into playing poker and drinking beers with Burnley&#8217;s players<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/18\/70783837-12523753-Burnley_supporters_lined_the_streets_to_celebrate_the_club_winni-a-32_1694800655445.jpg\" height=\"411\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Burnley supporters lined the streets to celebrate the club winning the Championship title\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ashley Barnes is playing poker around a table, he&#8217;s got beers with the boys. He said: &#8220;JJ come on over, sit down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I&#8217;m sitting down and I&#8217;m like: &#8220;All right, I&#8217;m in the ownership group but I am still the same age as Ashley and I&#8217;m a player at heart.&#8221; So we start playing a little cards, I have a beer and he says: &#8220;Come on, we&#8217;re going on the bus!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So we get on, to go to the parade and I&#8217;m like: &#8220;Am i supposed to be enjoying this and having fun or not? But those are the moments that make it so special &#8211; that day, that parade, everything about that. You could tell that team was so special.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Kompany is now leading Burnley in the Premier League. They sit bottom of the table, having lost all three of their opening games since winning promotion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/19\/75484793-12523753-The_former_NFL_player_enjoyed_a_conversation_with_Burnley_manage-a-34_1694801047876.jpg\" height=\"312\" width=\"633\"><\/p>\n<p>The former NFL player enjoyed a conversation with Burnley manager Vincent Kompany<\/p>\n<p>Watt asked the Belgian whether there were any aspects of the NFL or other sports he would love to bring to soccer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There is plenty I still want to learn but attention to detail, hours of education for the players &#8211; I think you put in a lot more time in the classroom than we do,&#8217; Kompany said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are other things that are really healthy in football (soccer) that we need to keep but I definitely think we have another layer of levels to come when it comes to players dedicating the day to the profession.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Watt is already planning another reunion with the manager. &#8216;I&#8217;m going to come to Belgium some time and we&#8217;re going to do a waffle tour,&#8217; he said. &#8216;That&#8217;s going to be our next show together.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12523753\/Burnley-minority-owner-JJ-Watt-lifts-lid-drinking-beer-playing-poker-Vincent-Kompanys-players-title-celebrations-moments-make-special.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnley minority owner JJ Watt lifts the lid on drinking beer and playing poker with Vincent Kompany&#8217;s players during title celebrations: &#8216;Those are the moments that make it so special&#8217; JJ Watt became a minority owner at Premier League club Burnley earlier this year Watt asked Vincent Kompany if there were aspects of the NFL&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JJ Watt on drinking beer and playing poker with Burnley players - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/jj-watt-on-drinking-beer-and-playing-poker-with-burnley-players\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JJ Watt on drinking beer and playing poker with Burnley players - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Burnley minority owner JJ Watt lifts the lid on drinking beer and playing poker with Vincent Kompany&#8217;s players during title celebrations: &#8216;Those are the moments that make it so special&#8217; 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