MADRID — Joe Burrow turned one of soccer's most famous stages into his own showcase on Sunday, 8 November 2026, throwing three touchdown passes and running for another as the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34-17 at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the NFL's second-ever regular-season game in Spain. The win, Cincinnati's fourth in a row, lifted the Bengals to 6-2 and into a tie with the Pittsburgh Steelers at the top of the AFC North — and it delivered the clearest evidence yet that the NFL's Madrid experiment is working. An announced crowd of 78,660 packed the Bernabéu for a game that kicked off at 3:30 p.m. local time, and much of it, according to reports from the stadium, was wearing orange. The Falcons were the designated home team, but the atmosphere belonged to the visitors. Illustration: An American football game under the floodlights of Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, with a packed crowd watching the Cincinnati Bengals ...