The NFL may need performed the Minnesota Vikings an enormous favor with their unprecedented 2025 common season schedule.
On Tuesday, the league introduced its 2025 worldwide sequence, and the Vikings made historical past as the primary group scheduled for 2 video games overseas.
In Week 4 (Sept. 28), Minnesota will play the Steelers in Dublin within the NFL’s first recreation in Eire, adopted the subsequent week (Oct. 5) with journey to London.
The Vikings are the designated highway group in each video games. As ESPN noted, the NFL’s determination to schedule the 2 video games at impartial websites is a boon to Minnesota.
The Vikings have never won at Heinz Discipline/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 in opposition to the Browns, their 2025 opponent. Contemplating Cleveland’s unsure quarterback scenario, Minnesota — even with its personal questions relating to unheralded starter J.J. McCarthy — may have a strong probability of incomes a fifth win in the UK.
So far as journey is worried, jet lag on the best way again is perhaps the Vikings’ greatest fear. Roughly 290 miles separate Dublin and London through 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 complete schedule shall be launched Wednesday, and it might be shocking if the Vikings did not obtain their bye in Week 7, giving gamers a essential break after two weeks abroad. That might make the journey even much less worrisome.
Most groups would possibly balk on the thought 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 perhaps a blessing.
