The Pittsburgh Steelers will play the NFL’s first regular-season game in Ireland when they take on the Minnesota Vikings tomorrow, and the team made no small effort to make sure the game happened. During an event in Dublin ahead of Sunday’s game, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the Steelers were pushing “very hard” for a game in the country.
“The Steelers were pushing us *very* hard to bring the Steelers over here,” Goodell said, with Steelers’ owner Art Rooney II, also in attendance at the event, quipping that it was a “fair statement,” per ESPN’s Brooke Pryor.