Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Jordan Love are hard to miss in the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo, with their faces gazing skyward as part of a 108-foot-high mural on the side of a downtown building.
They will face off Friday night when Hurts' Philadelphia Eagles take on Love's Green Bay Packers in the first NFL game in the soccer-crazy nation, which has an estimated 38 million fans of American football.Crica Monteiro, a graffiti artist with more than two decades of experience, worked with six others to create the giant mural that was commissioned by the NFL in partnership with local company Dionisio AG.
What I brought was not to put them against each other. I wanted to catch the subtlety of their expressions. My characters always have a deep look."Monteiro said she became more interested in American football after hearing the story of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who in 2016 began kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice."American football is in a position of defiance for me, and so is NBA basketball.
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