First NFL Regular Season Game in Ireland - Steelers vs Vikings

When it was announced last year that the first ever NFL regular season game was going to be played in Dublin early in the 2025/26 season, I was still very new to American football but even then I could see that the announcement of this fixture was a big deal. With the Steelers and the Packers touted as potential participants, immediate interest was drummed up, and not just in the USA. On Irish social media it seemed everyone and their dog wanted to go this game.

Thus it proved when the final fixture was announced as Steelers vs Vikings and the digital queue for tickets had over half a million people waiting at one point. For my own part, I forgot that this was on and by the time I found out tickets had finally gone on sale, the ticket window had already been open for most of the day. I decided to chance my arm and see if there were any tickets going and indeed there were, so I picked up two as a birthday present for my wife who wanted to go...