When Chris Long had Josh Jacobs on his podcast, he likely wasn’t anticipating the Green Narrows Packers running back to break a few news.
Jacobs dropped a shocking detail on the Green Light podcast with Chris Long. For the NFL’s first-ever customary season amusement in South America, the Falcons and Packers will confront off in São Paulo, Brazil. Clearly, there’s an informal run the show there — they can’t wear green. “They said, I guess, something to do with the gangs and stuff,” said Jacobs. “They said we not going to Rio. They told us, they was like, man, this one of those places where they probably won’t let us leave the hotel…They probably gonna have armored vehicles following us around. I said, ‘Bro, why are we out here? Why are we here?’”As it turns out, that’s not true.
Here’s what NFL chief spokesman Brian McCarthy told Daniel Kaplan for a Front Office Sports piece regarding the idea the teams couldn’t wear green and would be under heavy security:
