The SI story noted that he first attended a sporting event, an older brother's football game, when he was 5 days old, and at age 6 he attended the 2002 Rose Bowl in which his father served as a Nebraska assistant and another brother played. Not long after, he began playing in youth football leagues. Unlike his father, uncle, and brothers, who all played on defense, Burrow started out as a quarterback because his first youth team had no one else who could play the position.[2]