NFL legend Brett Favre to speak to Eagles ahead of Super Bowl LII

Once upon a time, Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre helped the Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI.

Eagles coach Doug Pederson was sitting shotgun for that ride as Favre’s backup, and more than 20 years later, he’s looking to his old teammate to provide some words of wisdom.

Pederson pulled some strings, and Favre will talk to Eagles players during a team meeting on Saturday morning, about 36 hours before they take on the mighty Patriots on Sunday night at U.S. Bank Stadium.

“He and I stay in touch,” Pederson said. “We are great friends. We were teammates together for eight years in Green Bay. I figured since he’s going to be in town to just ask him. … He’s just going to stop by the hotel and visit with the guys on Saturday morning.”

Eagles quarterback Nick Foles seemed eager for the opportunity to pick the brain of Favre, who retired in 2010.

“He’s one of the greatest to ever play in the game,” Foles said. “Just his style of play and his toughness. He is a true gunslinger. Just a rocket arm, can throw it from any which angle, off his back foot. He can throw it anywhere he wants.

“He’s played a lot of football,” Foles added. “Any time we have the opportunity to listen to someone like him speak, it’s huge. I’m excited to listen.”

After a lengthy career with the Packers, Favre almost led the Vikings to Super Bowl XLIV before infamously throwing across his body for a late, costly interception in the NFC Championship Game.

Perhaps his biggest piece of advice will be reminding Foles never to do that.

BRADY GETS BIT (TWICE)

You’ve probably heard the stories by now about how a young Tom Brady was bitten by a dog at his grandpa’s farm in Browerville, Minn.

“Yeah, I gave the dog a bone and then went down to give the dog a kiss,” Brady explained. “He bit right through my lip.”

Well, apparently, that’s a recurring theme for the New England Patriots quarterback.

Brady recently explained another incident of being bitten by a dog a few years ago in Foxborough, Mass.

“There was some military training going on in our stadium,” he recalled. “Mr. Kraft allowed some military members to do some training that they needed to do. I was able to witness it at night. It was during training camp. We got a chance to go on the field after and meet a lot of the guys.”

Brady and a few of his teammates walked out toward the middle of the field, and amid the chaos, failed to recognize there were dogs close to some of the military members.

“Those weren’t like labradors,” Brady said. “They were tough dogs.”

Brady raised his hands over his head, and as soon as he did, the dog jumped.

“I guess (it) was going for my neck and the guy grabs the dog back down and the dog got my thigh on the way down,” Brady said with a laugh. “I was standing there with a bunch of tough guys and they all saw it and they were like, ‘Are you OK?’ And I’m like, ‘Of course I’m OK.’ I could feel the cut and I couldn’t say anything because I’m with like the toughest guys in the world. So I just sucked it up for like an hour.

“It was probably 10:30 or 10:45 when I went back in to our training room and I called up our trainer Jim Whalen and I was like, ‘Hey, Jim. I have a problem.’ He was like, ‘What is it?’ And I said, ‘I just got bit by a dog.’ He had to come over and get that taken care of. I have a nice little scar on my quad thanks to that night.”

POWER OF EXPOSURE

Fletcher Cox arrived at Wednesday’s media access wearing a Mexican wrestling mask. He left the same way.

“A reporter gave me this,” the Eagles defensive tackle said. “He said if I wear it the whole press conference, I’ll have super powers.”

What type of powers?

“He said if I revealed them, they’ll disappear,” Cox said.

Maybe the power of exposure.

A handful of Cox’s teammates were given masks, and three — defensive end Brandon Graham and offensive tackle Lance Johnson were the others — wore theirs before cameras Wednesday.

Sometime next season, the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Rams will play the fourth regular-season NFL game in Mexico, Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters in Minneapolis.

“The enthusiasm for our game continues to grow, the fan base wants more and more football, which is something we look forward to trying to meet,” he said.

Since 2005, the NFL has held 34 regular-season games outside of the United States, all of them in London, Mexico City and Toronto. There are four international regular-season games scheduled for next season, the other three in London.

A fan club of Vikings fans from Monterrey, Mexico, sent a few members to the Jan. 14 divisional playoff game against the New Orleans Saints at U.S. Bank Stadium.

It appears the Eagles also have a fan base in Mexico.

“That’s what (the reporter) told me,” Graham said. “I’m learning it a little more. I know it’s only bits and pieces from different countries that I don’t know about until somebody tells me.”