{"id":69580,"date":"2025-09-17T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/69580\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:49:07","slug":"virgin-media-to-show-10-live-nfl-games-including-steelers-v-vikings-at-croke-park-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/69580\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media to show 10 live NFL games including Steelers v Vikings at Croke Park \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">All six of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nfl\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nfl\">NFL\u2019s<\/a> European games this season will be shown free-to-air in Ireland, live on Virgin Media Television \u2013 including the Croke Park meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/pittsburgh-steelers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/pittsburgh-steelers\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> and Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The new broadcast deal will also see Virgin televise three playoff games live plus the Super Bowl, meaning a total of 10 matches are to be shown on Irish TV over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The first ever regular season NFL fixture to be held in Dublin will take place at GAA headquarters on Sunday, September 28th when the Steelers play the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, there are also five more games on this side of the Atlantic over the coming weeks \u2013 three in London (Minnesota Vikings v Cleveland Browns, October 5th; Denver Broncos v New York Jets, October 12th; Los Angeles Rams v Jacksonville Jaguars, October 19th), while Berlin hosts the Indianapolis Colts v Atlanta Falcons on November 9th. The Bernabeu in Madrid will be the venue for the Washington Commanders v Miami Dolphins on November 16th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe 2025 NFL Dublin game marks an exciting milestone for the sport in Ireland as we look to grow fandom in the market,\u201d says Laura Louisy, the NFL\u2019s Director of International Business Development and Media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cVirgin Media Television are a great partner to not only broadcast this historic game free-to-air, but more broadly bring fans close to the sport across the 2025 NFL season of international game moments, playoffs and Super Bowl LX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tommy Martin will host the coverage alongside a broadcasting team of Dave McIntyre, Bernard O\u2019Toole, Michael McQuaid, Tadhg Leader and Efe Obada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All six of the NFL\u2019s European games this season will be shown free-to-air in Ireland, live on Virgin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,2530,48304,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-69580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}