Green Bay Packers fans traveling to Brazil this week will have a different experience than those who went to London in 2022.
London was familiar, if only from TV shows and movies, while Brazil is not well-known, exotic even. It's tropical, they speak Portuguese, and there are rumors of crime, disease and violent soccer fans.
Marcus Rovere, who administers the Packers Brasil page on X, formerly Twitter, begs to differ on the latter. "Everybody that comes to Brazil falls in love with Brazil," said Rovere, a Brazilian who fell in love with the Packers.