The NFL may need finished the Minnesota Vikings an enormous favor with their unprecedented 2025 common season schedule.
On Tuesday, the league introduced its 2025 worldwide collection, and the Vikings made historical past as the primary workforce scheduled for 2 video games overseas.
In Week 4 (Sept. 28), Minnesota will play the Steelers in Dublin within the NFL’s first sport in Eire, adopted the following week (Oct. 5) with journey to London.
The Vikings are the designated highway workforce in each video games. As ESPN noted, the NFL’s choice to schedule the 2 video games at impartial websites is a boon to Minnesota.
The Vikings have never won at Heinz Area/Acrisure Stadium, the house of the Steelers, going 0-3 since 2001. Minnesota is also 4-0 all-time in London games, together with a 33-16 win in 2017 towards the Browns, their 2025 opponent. Contemplating Cleveland’s unsure quarterback scenario, Minnesota — even with its personal questions relating to unheralded starter J.J. McCarthy — could have a stable probability of incomes a fifth win in the UK.
So far as journey is worried, jet lag on the best way again is likely to be the Vikings’ largest fear. Roughly 290 miles separate Dublin and London by way of airway, shorter than a flight from Minneapolis to Chicago (roughly 330 miles), so touring between the 2 worldwide cities should not put them at a aggressive drawback.
The total schedule shall be launched Wednesday, and it will be stunning if the Vikings did not obtain their bye in Week 7, giving gamers a vital break after two weeks abroad. That will make the journey even much less worrisome.
Most groups may balk on the concept of taking part in back-to-back video games in worldwide markets. However the Vikings have little to complain about. Based mostly on their historical past, it is likely to be a blessing.
