Identical twins Chase and Sydney Brown talk on the phone every night. That was until this week, when, for the first time ever, the brothers will play against each other on a football field. “It’ll be like a one-week breakup, it'll be alright,” Sydney told Philadelphia media this week.
“We'll both go our own ways, play, you know, study our game plan, play the game, and then after we'll be back like we never left.” Family and friends from Canada will be travelling the six-hour drive to Cincinnati to watch Chase’s Bengals take on Sydney’s Philadelphia Eagles Sunday at 1 p.m.
It’s a once-in-four-year game on the schedule, which they had been circling since they were drafted. Now it’s here. “We were talking last night, and he's like, ‘We can still talk like, over the game and stuff,’ but he's like, ‘We just can't talk football because we just cannot talk football,’” said Sydney.
“It's hard not to, because that's what we do, like, that's our everyday life.” Philadelphia Eagles safety Sydney Brown runs with the ball after intercepting a pass from Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, in Philadelphia.
Brown returned the ball for a touchdown on the play. (Source: AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Chase said his mom Raechel Brown is “hoping for a tie.” “My mom doesn't want to watch, but she wants to watch at the same time,” Chase told media in Cincinnati.
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