Frequently during the season, one brother will get a 10-minute break between meetings and text the other.
Howie remembers the message he always gave his three sons around the dinner table (Howie Jr. works for the Raiders) about the importance of family: "These people at the end of the day would jump in front of a bus to save you."
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"Fox NFL Sunday" producer Bill Richards said Howie had agreed to be shown in the suite a couple of times during the game, but the camera won't be cutting to the father immediately after, say, Chris beats Kyle for a sack.
Their worst fight, Kyle said, "probably had to do with something I may or may not have mumbled under my breath to my mom regarding taking the trash out."
Chris made a far more direct trip, drafted with the second overall selection in 2008 out of Virginia. Kyle had to live up to the pressure of following both Howie and Chris. Then again, at least he doesn't play the same position as his father,China Jerseys Free Shipping, who starred at defensive end for the Raiders from 1981-93.
"I've heard from his point of view of what offensive linemen can do to your psyche, and that kill switch comes on and nobody wants that to come on during the game," Kyle said.
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Brotherly quarterback matchups get the most attention, but siblings have met in the trenches before, too. The second of three NFL generations of the Matthews family — Bruce, an offensive lineman, and Clay, a linebacker — regularly butted heads as divisional rivals in the 1980s and '90s.
With an age gap of almost four years, the two have never shared the same field in uniform. Not surprisingly, these two large, competitive,Cheap Arizona Cardinals Jerseys, athletic guys have tangled in plenty of "melees," as Howie puts it.
He's such a natural, he was the 20th pick of the first round of this year's draft.
This time, he'll be speaking as a parent, not an analyst.

Kyle, listed at 6-foot-6 and 311 pounds, has started every game as a rookie for Chicago. Chris, 6-3, 270, has 48? sacks in six seasons for the Rams.
Richards recalled how the boys used to visit the set in their Halloween costumes, and how pregame colleague Terry Bradshaw is like an uncle to them. Viewers will have to judge whether the personal ties of this game seem endearing or awkward on air.
He worries about his sons' health but comforts himself that he taught them proper technique. Both Howie and Chris tried to push Kyle into baseball, well aware of football's physical toll, and he initially decided to pitch at Florida State. Somehow he still wound up in the NFL, taking a circuitous route through a DUI arrest, academic troubles, junior college and just five starts at Oregon.
"Why would that change?" Kyle said. "We're still brothers. It might be a little more smack talk."
Even this week.
Long and younger brother Kyle play against each other for the first time Sunday, and their Hall of Fame father, Howie, will watch from a suite. The elder Long has always felt sympathy for another former NFL player, Archie Manning, when his quarterback sons face one another.
"I'm going to leave it at that," he added. "I don't talk back to my mom anymore, and I keep my distance from my brother when I'm being asked to do things."
Yet the Longs will endure a true head-to-head tussle that the Mannings never can. Chris and Kyle will likely slam into each other along the line of scrimmage at least a few times in St. Louis.
"It really has nothing to do with football for me. But I'm just really proud because I know how hard this job is."
Kyle is happy to go into vivid detail about a rivalry at the family's vacation home in Montana. The brothers try to see who can push a jeep 30 yards the fastest.
Richards promises if one of the Long brothers "messes up, you'll hear about it."
Kyle has always idolized Chris,Chile Jersey, which makes him think of a sports-referencing lyric in a song by rapper Drake: "And that's around the time that your idols become your rivals."
On a typical Sunday, Howie always keeps one eye glued to a monitor — or two — showing his sons' games. He'd prefer to mostly avoid taking part in discussions about matchups involving the Rams and Bears.
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