Friday's game in Sao Paulo isn't the easiest for the players so the Eagles coach tried to tap into his youth to find a positive spin.
PHILADELPHIA - It’s just under 5,000 miles from Jamestown, N.Y. to Sao Paulo, Brazil but that’s been the unlikely trajectory of Nick Sirianni’s life.
“If you said to me ‘Hey, Friday night, September whatever, 2024, you're going to be the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles,’ - and I'm ten years old – ‘and you're playing the Green Bay Packers,’ I mean, I would've been pretty pumped about that and I'm still pumped about that,” Sirianni said on the eve of his item’s flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil where the Eagles will “host” the Packers at Corinthians Arena.
“Wow, what an unbelievable thing to say we have a game Friday night,” said Sirianni. “That gives me goosebumps to think about that. Friday Night Football is what we all first -- those were the like my favorite players growing up, because my dad was a coach, were the high school players that played on Friday night-- John Briggs, it was my brother Jay Sirianni, Mike Sirianni, Pete Connelly.And ‘Friday Night Football.
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