Lucas Niang is the only player in the NFL, the American football championship, to wear this flag on his helmet. The Kansas City Chiefs team, already victorious last year, is preparing to face the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas.
“I have my passport!”, he proclaims in the pages of the newspaper L’Équipe which devoted a portrait to him on Thursday February 8. The last and only trace of a Frenchman in theNFL dates back to the early 1990s with Richard Tardits, a Basque who wore the colors of the New England Patriots.