LAS VEGAS — Hans Carlson had a option to construct. It was once the afternoon of Sept. 18, 2018, and he was once at Chicago O’Hare Global Airport ready to peer if the Minnesota Vikings-Inexperienced Bay Packers recreation would finish earlier than his gliding house to Colorado Springs took off.

The sport, in fact, going to additional time.

“I decided to miss my flight,” he stated.

Jumbled together with a bunch of Packers fanatics in entrance of a tv in Terminal 1, Carlson watched in peace. Each and every presen the Vikings kicker coated up for a ground purpose — a 49-yard aim at the first ownership of additional time and nearest an aim to win the sport with a 35-yarder at the ultimate play games — the similar factor took place.

“The Packers fans started screaming, ‘He’s going to miss it,’” Carlson recalled. “And naturally, he did. The Packers fanatics saved pronouncing, ‘We like Daniel Carlson.'”

Hans, Daniel’s father, didn’t say a word.

It wasn’t a great weekend for the Carlsons from the start. Hans had a layover in Chicago because he was on his way back from watching his youngest son, Anders Carlson. Then a redshirt freshman at Auburn, where he followed in Daniel’s footsteps, Anders missed a 52-yard field goal in the fourth quarter of a 22-21 loss to LSU.

Fast-forward more than five years, and the Carlsons won’t be forced to pick watching one son over the other. On the stage of “Monday Evening Soccer” at Allegiant Stadium (8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN/ABC), Daniel, the Las Vegas Raiders’ All-Pro kicker, and Anders, the Packers rookie who has yet to miss a kick this season, will finally play in the same game.

“What will that be like?” Jodie Carlson, their mother, said to ESPN during a joint interview with her husband, Hans, just days before kickoff. “No idea because it’s never happened before.”

In fact, it will be the first time the entire Carlson crew — including oldest son, Nils, who is flying in from Sweden — will be in the same place at the same time since Anders’ wedding in June 2022.

For years, Hans and Jodie tried to maximize their opportunities to see their two kicking sons perform. The boys were never in high school at the same time, so when Daniel kicked at Auburn, Anders was back in Colorado Springs. By the time Anders became Auburn’s kicker in 2018, Daniel was already in the NFL, having been drafted in the fifth round by the Vikings that year.

The only time they were on the same team was at Auburn in 2017, Daniel’s final season, but Anders redshirted.

Anders admitted recently he had no idea how his parents managed to see as many of their games as they did, although Jodie’s job as a flight attendant for United helped, and it’s still a wonder how they’ll keep this up with two kids in different NFL cities.

“Well, Week 5’s easy,” Anders joked, referring to Monday night’s game. “There’s only one spot to go to.”

The Carlson kids were typical hypercompetitive brothers — or at least typical for having a father who came to the United States from Sweden on a tennis scholarship to the University of Alabama. That’s where Hans met Jodie, whose father played baseball for the Crimson Tide.

Nils, the oldest of the 3, may well be credited with turning his more youthful brothers into kickers.

“Nils was the one who made them good because he was a soccer goalie,” Hans stated. “They used to take shots at him every summer, thousands of shots.”

Hans coached them in tennis and inspired them to effort the entirety from golfing to basketball. In step with Anders, the video games of driveway basketball with Daniel had been extra than simply pleasant pickup video games, and the tennis fits nonetheless journey directly to this date.

“I was the better basketball player,” Anders insists. “He was the more physical guy, though. He had the height, so those were even matches. My dad’s a tennis coach, so a lot of tennis matches. Playing soccer, whatever it was, we were always competing.”

Daniel’s model is relatively other.

“I’m like 1 million-and-0 in brotherly competition,” Daniel said. “But we’re 0-0 overall in football competition. So this is really special. … This will be a first and hopefully not a last.”

Of the entire commonalities between Anders and Daniel, flow Packers particular groups coordinator Affluent prosperous Bisaccia could be essentially the most noteceable one. Maximum bios of Bisaccia don’t even come with his forbid at Auburn. However he spent a year there early in 2013 between NFL jobs with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys. In that transient presen, he recruited Daniel. The 2 can be reunited in 2018 with the Raiders, the place Bisaccia ran the particular groups.

The Raiders signed Daniel a couple of weeks later the Vikings trim him the date later the debacle in Lambeau, simply two video games into his NFL profession. Bisaccia helped flip Daniel into one of the vital NFL’s maximum constant kickers. In six seasons with the Raiders, he has made 90.1% of his ground targets.

This offseason, Bisaccia going to bat for Anders, and the Packers took him within the 6th spherical as they had been having a look to exchange longtime kicker Mason Crosby. Nearest a rocky coaching camp and preseason, Anders to presen has have shyed away from the type of aim Daniel had early in his profession with the Vikings. He has made the entirety thus far: 5-for-5 on ground targets, together with a 52-yarder towards the Chicago Bears in Future 1, and 9-for-9 on difference issues.

“I think the thing that’s been good for Anders is some of the difficulties that Daniel has had, Anders has had the opportunity to learn from,” Bisaccia stated. “So I think that’s the one thing probably that he’s taken from his brother, but I still think the guiding force to those two is the dad. Dad’s an ultracompetitive tennis guy, and I think he’s really been a force for both of those guys.”

Extreme year, when the NFL season started, the Raiders opened on the Broncos. It intended Daniel can be enjoying related to the folk’s Colorado Springs house. However the Carlsons selected to fly to Chicago, the place Anders was once making his professional debut towards the Bears.

“I apologized to Daniel for not being at the Raiders-Broncos game, because we usually make that,” Jodie stated. “However we had been committing to Chicago and we couldn’t construct them each.

“Daniel said, ‘Mom, don’t apologize. It’s just like when we were kids and had Saturday morning soccer games and you couldn’t make them all with three sons. So just relax and enjoy and appreciate the opportunity that we’re still able to play sports.’”

No such predicament this week.

“To compete all our lives and finally play in a game where we’re actually wearing jerseys and competing against each other, it’s going to be awesome,” Anders said.

In all, the Carlson contingent will be 27 strong on Monday night. Anders said he left the ticket requests up to Daniel because he’d get better seats as a player on the home team.

“We sit down within the first row at the back of the goalposts,” Hans said. “That’s a great spot for the kickers’ oldsters.”

For Daniel’s sake, no less than the sport isn’t in Inexperienced Bay. He has helped Anders enough quantity alongside the best way, but if his more youthful brother were given drafted via the Packers, Daniel presented negative recommendation when the topic became to kicking at Lambeau Garden.

“The first time, I couldn’t figure it out,” Daniel stated. “Obviously.”

ESPN Raiders reporter Paul Gutierrez contributed to this tale.