{"id":28800,"date":"2025-05-06T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/28800\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:38:12","slug":"report-pittsburgh-steelers-to-play-vikings-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/28800\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pittsburgh Steelers to play Vikings in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"HMAXoa\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> made headlines earlier in the offseason when it was revealed they would be partaking in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/pittsburgh-steelers-news\/2024\/12\/29\/24331745\/report-steelers-to-play-game-in-ireland-in-2025-chicago-bears-nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL\u2019s first regular-season game in Ireland<\/a>. With the official schedule release coming next week, rumors and potential leaks are starting to come out about who Pittsburgh will play in the historic matchup. <\/p>\n<p id=\"fJYZ4p\">According to Andre Fillipponi, the Steelers\u2019 trip to Ireland will come in Week 4, and Pittsburgh will play the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynorseman.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>. Despite many penciling in the Green Bay Packers as the Steelers\u2019 opponent, the Pittsburgh radio host says he has been told it will be Minnesota. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: The Steelers will host the Vikings in Ireland on September 28th. Not the Packers. Contrary to popular belief. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2leihsaGpj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2leihsaGpj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Fillipponi (@ThePoniExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoniExpress\/status\/1919127095550025808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"LcJsDh\">This wouldn\u2019t be the first time the Steelers played Minnesota overseas, as they played the Vikings in London in 2013 in a 34-27 loss. Matt Cassel was the quarterback for the Vikings that day, throwing for 248 yards and two touchdowns against a Steelers defense that was beginning to fall apart. Le\u2019Veon Bell made his NFL debut in this game, as well, rushing for two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p id=\"D59G5g\">We\u2019ll see if Fillipponi is correct when the NFL schedule release takes place on May 14th.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers made headlines earlier in the offseason when it was revealed they would be partaking in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[2371,2373,7,29,723,8188,6,520,57,2374,12052,2360,2846,1150,2372,426,24,528,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-28800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-behind","9":"tag-curtain","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","18":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-rumors","19":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","20":"tag-play","21":"tag-report","22":"tag-steel","23":"tag-steelers","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114461875074565631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800","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=28800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}