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Bundee Aki and Jason Kelce at Croke Park on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Connacht Rugby ace Bundee Aki was spotted mingling with several NFL stars as he attended Croke Park to watch Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Fresh from the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia which concluded with a Test series win in August, Aki was spotted on the pitch exchanging a jersey with Steelers running back Kenneth Gainwell, who proved to be one of the the stars of the evening.<\/p>\n
Aki was later pictured with former Philadelphia Eagles centre and 2018 Super Bowl champion Jason Kelce in the corporate area of GAA HQ.<\/p>\n
More than 70,000 fans visited Croke Park to take in the first-ever regular season NFL game on Irish soil as the Steelers edged a 24-21 victory over the Vikings.<\/p>\n
Two touchdowns from Gainwell ultimately proved decisive as the Steelers raced to a 21-6 lead before a powerful response from the Vikings turned the showpiece event into a nailbiter.<\/p>\n
The attempted comeback ultimately proved to be too little, too late as the Steelers held on to maintain their position atop the AFC North division.<\/p>\n
It was a proud weekend for Galway-based fans of the NFL, with local band Clada delivering a showstopping performance in front of the Hill 16 during an intermission.<\/p>\n
The Connemara folk group has enjoyed a meteoric rise since arriving on the scene last year and shared their delight with the opportunity on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the pleasure of playing to over 74,000 people during the Steelers x Vikings game yesterday in Croke Park!<\/p>\n
\u201cTo say we\u2019re not over this experience would be an understatement, it was so much fun,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bundee Aki and Jason Kelce at Croke Park on Sunday. Connacht Rugby ace Bundee Aki was spotted mingling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,21321,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-92871","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-joseph-murray","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92871","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=92871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}