Ex-NFL wide receiver Andrew Hawkins shares what happened when he tried to conjure his own 'flu game'

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Former NFL wide receiver Andrew Hawkins was as enthralled as every other Michael Jordan fan watching “The Last Dance” on Sunday night.

After watching the episode about Jordan’s “flu game” – which ended up being revealed as more of a “bad pizza game” – against the Utah Jazz in the 1997 NBA Finals, Hawkins decided to tell his own tale about the time he tried to play through illness. It didn’t go full Jordan.

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Hawkins tweeted he was in the second year of his NFL career and had 102-degree fever right before the Cincinnati Bengals were set to play the Houston Texans. He said he even had to switch rooms just so A.J. Green wouldn’t get sick.

“All I was thinking is, I’m going MJ Flu game on em…”

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Hawkins then wrote he had two receptions for 15 yards and a fumble and the Bengals lost the game.

Hawkins then revealed a text-message chain with Green and Mohamed Sanu, who were his teammates in Cincinnati during the 2012 season.

“The man was so sick,” Green wrote in the group chat.

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Hawkins, who is now the co-host of the “ThomaHawk Show” with former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas, played six seasons in the NFL. He had 209 catches for 2,419 yards and nine touchdowns.