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The Eagles Will Open the NFL Season on a Friday in Brazil
By Kyle Pagan
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Vão pássaros (Go Birds):
The game will be played on Friday, September 6, 2024, the first time the NFL has played a game on Friday night of their opening weekend in over 50 years!
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) February 5, 2024
I have the perfect honorary captain for the game:
Danelo Cavalcante was captured wearing an Eagles sweatshirt pic.twitter.com/KVK4P3kdCW
— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) September 13, 2023
I didn’t see this coming. I kind of love it. Yea you lose a home game, but the Birds have nine this year and now the team has extended rest going into Week 2. It’s only a two hour time difference in Brazil so the game will probably start around 6-7pm here. They’ll play at Arena Corinthians which has a ryegrass playing surface so no need to worry about any bullshit there. But this will now mark the fifth year in a row the Eagles haven’t opened Week 1 in the Linc. What gives, Roger?
I can’t wait for a fan from the road team puts a jersey on the Christ Redeemer Statue. How do you say Dallas Sucks in Portuguese?
Does Brazil even have Eagles fans you wonder? Here’s a bunch of people from Brazil cheering on the Eagles during Super Bowl 52:
Who let this dork into the party?
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com