ALAMEDA — Shortly after his record-setting NFL debut, Giorgio Tavecchio received a text on his flip phone asking if he planned to party upon returning to California Sunday night.
Tavecchio, 27, explained to his two college roommates in the group chat that if the Raiders’ team plane arrived in time, in accordance with his college tradition of going to church on weekend nights, he would attend 10 p.m. Mass instead.
“One hundred percent, he will go to Mass,” Jed Barnett, one of the friends in the chat, said on Sunday afternoon. “He will go to the 10 o’clock candlelight without a question.