Pittsburgh Steelers proprietor Artwork Rooney II stated Dublin might host an NFL sport in 2025, which might be town’s first in almost 30 years.
Looney shared the chance whereas talking with the Steelers broadcast workforce within the dugout at Acrisure Stadium on Friday night time throughout the Steelers’ first preseason sport.
“I believe there is a good probability we’ll have a world sport within the 2025 season. In fact, that is as much as the league, not us. Ought to we do this, we anticipate it might be in Mexico or Eire,” Rooney stated.
Pittsburgh Steelers president and proprietor Artwork Rooney II says Eire or Mexico might host worldwide video games
The Steelers have advertising and marketing rights to Eire and Mexico by means of the NFL’s international advertising and marketing program. Over the previous yr, the workforce has held watch events and youth camps in each areas.
Whereas Eire has by no means hosted an NFL common season sport, Croke Park, which seats greater than 80,000 followers, was the positioning of the 1997 American Bowl, a preseason sport between the Steelers and Chicago Bears. The workforce received 30-17.
That 1997 sport continues to be fondly remembered in Pittsburgh, with Rooney saying: “We performed a pre-season sport in Eire within the Nineteen Nineties and it was loads of enjoyable and common.
The Steelers final performed a world sport in 2013, once they misplaced 34-27 to the Minnesota Vikings at Wembley Stadium.
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For Rooney, returning to Eire means so much to the workforce: “Now we have loads of Steelers followers in Eire and it will likely be enjoyable to get again there once more.”
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