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Eagles and Packers Have Four Basic Options to Survive the Long Flight to Brazil

An unrelated picture of an airplane. | Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK

The Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles kick off their season in Brazil on Friday night. In order to get to Brazil, both teams will have to take unusually long flights. It will take around 12 hours to get from Wisconsin to Sao Paulo and more than nine hours to get there from Philadelphia.

While players truly committed to the grind are likely planning to raw dog the flight to get in the ideal headspace to dominate a football game, other players spoke with the press about their plans to kill time on the airplane. Basically, they're all going to watch something or sleep, but there were a couple other options.

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