NFLers wringing their fingers over Friday night time’s sport in Brazil have to chill out … ‘trigger Gilbert Burns — a UFC celebrity who’s from Rio De Janeiro — tells TMZ Sports the athletes are going to be simply fantastic in his homeland.

The difficulty has turn out to be fairly the speaking level ever for the reason that NFL introduced the Eagles would tackle the Packers in a São Paulo season-opening showdown — particularly after Philadelphia nook Darius Slay blasted league officers this week for planning the competition in a spot with a reported excessive crime fee.

But, once we spoke to Burns about what the blokes can anticipate once they lastly contact down in South America — he stated it straight up will NOT be “that crazy.”

He defined that like a variety of American cities — it has its dangerous areas … however for essentially the most half, it is “beautiful.”

In reality, he inspired the gamers to spend their free time touring the city.

“Those guys — all the football players — they look like Brazilians a little bit,” the 38-year-old Brazilian fighter stated. “They’re big, they’re strong. So they’re not going to have any problems there. And they’re going to have a lot of fun.”

According to Slay — who ended up backing off his Brazil feedback in a submit on X on Wednesday — the NFL has suggested gamers to remain of their resorts through the journey. But Burns says the UFC has despatched related memos when its athletes have fought in Brazil, and he is stated those who’ve ignored it have not regretted it.

As for the notion that carrying the colour inexperienced may trigger issues … Burns says he is by no means heard of something like that.

“It’s very nice,” he stated.

Burns will battle this weekend in Nevada in opposition to Sean Brady and he is anticipating a great present — but when he wasn’t slated to be within the Octagon … he advised us he’d be proper there in São Paulo catching all of the motion.

“It’s going to be big,” he stated of the sport. “It’s going to be bigger than people think.”