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Returning NFL missionaries Tanner McKee and Britain Covey make guest appearances in Brazil


Returning NFL missionaries Tanner McKee and Britain Covey make guest appearances in Brazil

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Tanner McKee warms up before an NFL preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

On Friday night, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers will play the first NFL game in Brazil, and earlier this week the Eagles introduced one of their players who speaks the country’s official language, Portuguese.

This player would be the third quarterback Tanner McKee, who served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil from 2018 to 2020.

In a hilarious 52-second video the Eagles posted on social media, McKee can be seen walking around the team’s locker room in Brazil, saying phrases in Portuguese and asking his teammates to repeat them.

Most of the time there was something to laugh about, but one player got a “That wasn’t actually that bad” from McKee.

About halfway through the video, McKee’s teammate and former University of Utah star Britain Covey showed up and started speaking Spanish, as he was serving as a missionary in Chile.

The rest of the video shows teammates having a little more success imitating McKee after he starts speaking more slowly. The video ends with a teammate asking, “I’m in Brazil. How do you say that?” After McKee responded in Portuguese, the player said, “We in Brazil.”

Friday’s game between the Eagles and Packers in Sao Paulo is scheduled to begin at 6:15 p.m. Mountain Time and can be seen on Peacock.

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