Packers and Eagles to play NFL season opener at Brazil membership with ‘ban’ on inexperienced | NFL

The Inexperienced Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season sport in Brazil.

The 6 September matchup in Sao Paulo will mark the primary time since 1970 that the NFL has performed a Friday evening sport on the season’s opening weekend.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had stated in February that the Eagles could be the house staff for the sport. The NFL introduced on Wednesday that the Packers will face the Eagles.

The sport will happen at Corinthians Enviornment, the house of Brazilian soccer staff Corinthians. The venue was used on the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Corinthians have an off-the-cuff ban on the colour inexperienced, worn by their bitter rivals Palmeiras, across the membership. The Packers and Eagles each put on inexperienced, with the Eagles set to put on the colour as the house staff. In 2021, Corinthians fined their striker Jo for carrying inexperienced boots. Jo later stated the boots have been truly “turquoise blue”.

“I’d by no means use inexperienced boots due to my historical past with Corinthians, a membership I’ve beloved since I used to be little,” he stated. “I’d by no means disrespect Corinthians, a lot much less the followers. I’ve at all times honored this shirt and I at all times will honor it.”

There’s a precedent for groups carrying jerseys with touches of inexperienced on the stadium. Brazil and Nigeria, who incorporate inexperienced of their jerseys, performed on the venue in the course of the 2016 Olympics. Nigeria performed of their white away shirt with inexperienced numbers, and Brazil performed of their well-known yellow jerseys with inexperienced trim.

The topic got here up on the press convention to announce the sport, when Sao Paulo’s mayor, Ricardo Nunes, joked: “What colour is the groups’ shirts?”

This may mark the Packers’ second worldwide sport within the final three years. They performed their first regular-season sport outdoors the US in 2022, after they misplaced 27-22 to the New York Giants at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

“We’re trying ahead to being part of this historic matchup towards the Eagles in Sao Paulo,” Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy stated in an announcement. “We’re excited to play in entrance of our devoted followers in Brazil and assist construct upon the worldwide reputation of the NFL and the Packers. We had a fantastic expertise enjoying internationally for the primary time a few years in the past and we’re proud to be a part of the league’s continued world progress.”

The sport will stream solely on Peacock and likewise be accessible on free broadcast tv within the native markets of the Eagles and Packers.

The final time the NFL had a Friday evening sport on its opening weekend was in September 1970, when the Los Angeles Rams hosted the St Louis Cardinals.