@EC Pack posted:Is it a big time zone difference or just a long flight in the same or very close time zone?
Brazil does not follow DST, so they're currently 3 hours ahead from Green Bay. But the Packers would lose 2 hours upon landing in Sao Paulo since the game is played in September before the US time changes.
Right now it is 552 pm in Sao Paulo
Sort of a mini bye too. Play Friday night, fly back to Green Bay probably early Sat., have Sunday off and maybe an extra day if game 2 is Monday night . 
@Shadow posted:Spanish, Polish, accented English, and the green back. Those are the languages in Chicago.
The Spanish/Polish juxtaposition is very interesting. Not to mention all the Germans that ended up in south america around and after WW2. I once worked with a guy named Pablo Jendretzki. He had dark bronze skin from his argentine mother and ice blue eyes from his Polish father. Very popular with the ladies. He may have known J. Peterman.
@Pikes Peak posted:Right now it is 552 pm in Sao Paulo
Don't know if it's still a fact, but the Sao Paulo areas in the 80's, had the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.
(I would have guessed Hawaii)
Nice factoid
@Boris posted:Nice factoid
Want another?
On my last flight back from Rio to LA I'm sitting in back coach (as all benefiters were required to do) and at the last minute 5 scruffy dudes stumble back into coach and I'm wondering WTF. Took a second look and holy shit that's John Mayhall! Smiled and gave him an up thumb and went to sleep.
Saw the group again at LA baggage claim and shook his hand and told him how much I'd enjoyed his work.
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers?
Not specifically related to the Packers and Brazil but didn't want to start a new thread. Anyway The Wall Street Journal is reporting Amazon Prime will stream a playoff game next season. If is a Packer game Goldie will love that.
Doesn't look likely for Packers in Brazil...how about the Badgers at Lambeau ?
According to Louie Vaccher of WildcatReport, Rivals’ dedicated site covering the Northwestern Wildcats, Northwestern athletics director Derrick Gragg told a group of alumni at a New York City get together last week that his school’s football team will be playing a game at Lambeau Field in 2024.
Notably, the Wildcats’ Ryan Field is undergoing an $800 million renovation, which is going to lead to some creative hosting for Northwestern’s home games this season.
Per Vaccher, the most likely matchup for Northwestern’s “home” game at Lambeau Field is the Wisconsin Badgers, who the Wildcats will play on
October 19th.
Don’t need two low end college teams stinking up Lambeau.
I didn't read that Iowa was playing there.
Yep, no Iowa Lambeau leaps. They never score a TD.
I was thinking how amazing it would be if the Packers were playing against Northwestern at Lambeau. What a beating! Then it occurred to me. The result will be exactly the same as it is when WE play that other team from Illinois every year.
Listened to an Eagles podcast with a bunch of their local reporters. The consensus there seemed to be they would likely settle on the Browns game. Didn't think they'd use an NFC matchup. The other AFC options were the Steelers (no sense in playing the battle of Pennsylvania in Brazil) and the Jaguars who already have to go to another country to play.
Does anyone else feel it would be kind of fitting for the Battle of Pennsylvania to be fought in Brazil?
@titmfatied posted:Listened to an Eagles podcast with a bunch of their local reporters. The consensus there seemed to be they would likely settle on the Browns game. Didn't think they'd use an NFC matchup. The other AFC options were the Steelers (no sense in playing the battle of Pennsylvania in Brazil) and the Jaguars who already have to go to another country to play.
The reason I think it will be the Packers instead of the Browns is Friday September 13th at the Browns stadium there will be a Billy Joel and Rod Stewart concert. So unless the Browns open the season with 2 road games. Also don't know how DeShawn Watson would be perceived in Brazil
Forgot about this thread
CALLED IT!! Brazil flag is Green & Gold
🇧🇷NEW: #Packers President Mark Murphy told local beat reporters the NFL is going to pick between the Packers or Browns to face the Eagles in São Paulo, Brazil week 1. pic.twitter.com/oRiOJmT8Om
— CheeseheadTV 🧀 (@cheeseheadtv) March 26, 2024
I think I read that game will be streamed and not on the regular channels, except for the home market.
that would suck if it is streamed separately. Paying over $400 or whatever it will be this year and still not able to watch your favorite team is lunacy. Do we even want the Packers to go there. Last time they went out of the country did not work out too well.
Don’t drink the water
@Pikes Peak posted:Don’t drink the water
Drink Cachaça!
@BrainDed posted:Fly from Mexico City then. Duh.
Makes sense
Hoping the NFL is using the threat of Brazil as leverage to get the Packers to agree to Hard Knocks this preseason. I'd rather that over taking the team on a thirteen hour trip. MLF didn't handle our last trip well.
You realize that they could be interviewing Murphy on a near daily basis.
Listening to Wilde and Tauscher. They said a Cleveland Brown player on the Browns website, said we're playing in Brazil. The organization has not walked that back.
FWIW
@R MaN posted:Listening to Wilde and Tauscher. They said a Cleveland Brown player on the Browns website, said we're playing in Brazil. The organization has not walked that back.
FWIW
"We're" meaning the Browns or the Packers? 🤔
I'm assuming he meant the Browns.
We're was referencing the Browns.
Called it!!
Based on Packers president Mark Murphy’s comments this morning, it sounds like they’re preparing to open the season in Brazil against the Eagles.
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) April 9, 2024
Speaking before the annual Tailgate Tour departed, Murphy said: “We’re either the first- or second-most popular team in Brazil.” pic.twitter.com/AObENaLxtV
To be fair, the Packers are the most popular team everywhere.
Game 2 of the 2024 NFL season: Packers vs. Eagles in São Paolo, Brazil.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) April 10, 2024
It'll be played on Friday, Sept. 6, and air exclusively on Peacock.
On Piss Cock...wonderful
I have a peacock subscription yay
I can hear Matt Lafleur's excitement from here.
