The Pittsburgh Steelers have established a presence in Eire, and their possession group, led by the Rooney Household, has been assured that the group will get a recreation within the nation. NFL proprietor Roger Goodell joked in regards to the Rooneys’ insistence on taking part in in Eire, and ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter studies that there’s a pondering across the league that the Steelers are a “prime candidate” to play the primary regular-season recreation in Eire.
Worldwide video games are again in focus, with the NFL’s London sequence kicking off right now with a recreation between the Minnesota Vikings and New York Jets. London has hosted NFL video games since 2007, and the league has continued its worldwide outreach with video games in Germany, Mexico, and Brazil. A recreation can also be at the moment deliberate to be performed in Madrid sooner or later.
It might make a variety of sense for the Steelers to go to Eire, provided that Pittsburgh already performed a 1997 preseason recreation there and has a longtime fanbase there. Dan Rooney additionally beforehand served because the US Ambassador to Eire, and the Steelers had an NFL Draft watch get together and kicking camp there this offseason.
The Steelers are additionally due for a global recreation as they haven’t performed one since 2013, and a visit to Eire would make excellent sense as one which appeases possession and likewise will get the NFL extra model publicity abroad. There was a university soccer recreation in Dublin earlier this 12 months, with Georgia Tech beating Florida State. Therefore, the one concern in regards to the logistics of taking part in soccer in Dublin is simply how drunk Pat McAfee would possibly get on his present.
Apparently Pittsburgh may very well be heading throughout the pond as quickly as subsequent 12 months, and given Goodell’s feedback and now Schefter’s report, it appears as if it’s as near a certain factor as there’s within the NFL.