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Burgundy, Gold & blue powder: Cousins and wife are having boy

Gender Reveal! Had to stand close so it wouldn't get intercepted... and still almost missed ha! IT'S A...

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WASHINGTON — Kirk Cousins and wife Julie are having a baby boy.

In a video posted Friday on Instagram, the pair made the announcement of their pending arrival’s sex in a fashion befitting someone with an NFL franchise tag: Passing a toy football at a mystery stack of boxes. (Was Jordan Reed not available for this? )

The boxes, hit by the ball, revealed the gender with a cloud of blue powder: a boy.

Or should we say “Oh, boy”?

The Burgundy and Gold’s quarterback and team captain made the announcement with a throw that would have been ruled incomplete in any other backyard.

We kid.

We kid.

Mazel tov, kids.

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