SÃO PAULO – There were Green Bay Packers shirts strewn over seatbacks inside a makeshift media auditorium. One member of Thursday’s credentialed press handed quarterback Jordan Love a Packers hat after his news conference. A Packers public relations staffer tried to intervene because, as standard operating procedure goes, this wasn’t it.
The credential reporter, a member of the fan blog Packers Brasil, insisted. So Love grabbed the hat as he walked off the podium. Normal rules need not apply at an occasion like this.
“This is the Brazilian Super Bowl here,” Love said.