{"id":26938,"date":"2025-05-05T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/26938\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:50:10","slug":"report-steelers-will-host-nfc-north-opponent-in-ireland-but-its-not-the-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/26938\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steelers will host NFC North opponent in Ireland \u2014 but it&#8217;s not the Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> games of the 2025 season is, without a doubt, the Steel City&#8217;s trip to Ireland. Many analysts and fans \u2014 including myself \u2014 believed the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Packers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Packers<\/a> made the most sense for the September 28th matchup, but Andrew Fillipponi recently shot down the previously expected pairing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fillipponi, radio host of 93.7 The Fan, his sources confirmed that the Pittsburgh Steelers will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Vikings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers have previously played in just one international game \u2014 all the way back in 2012 against the Vikings at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium, where Minnesota walked away victorious, 34-27.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings have an impressive 4-0 record outside the United States \u2014 becoming the NFL\u2019s go-to U.K. franchise. With that in mind, the Steelers \u2014 who have deep roots in the beautiful country of Ireland through the Rooney family \u2014 seem like the perfect opponent for Minnesota and will look to end the Vikings&#8217; undefeated international streak.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/05\/andrew-fillipponi-ireland-packers-vikings-steelers\/83465086007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fillipponi: Steelers\u2019 2025 opponent set for Ireland game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fillipponi: Steelers\u2019 2025 opponent set for Ireland game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most anticipated Pittsburgh Steelers games of the 2025 season is, without a doubt, the Steel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[11566,7,8188,259,6,428,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-26938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-andrew-fillipponi","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-packers","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","16":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","17":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114457911773815126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}