Whether anyone likes it or not
What was yesterday’s rumor. . .or, perhaps, rumour. . .is today’s breaking news as the 2025 National Football League schedule release continues.
The NFL has just announced the full slate of overseas games for the upcoming season, and the Minnesota Vikings will, in fact, be playing in back-to-back road games in Europe.
The first of the two games will come in Week 4, as the Vikings will take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at Croke Park in Dublin, the NFL’ first ever game in Ireland. The following week, the action will move to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, where the Vikings will take on the Cleveland Browns. The Vikings will be the road team for both of those contests.
These two games will mark the third and fourth overseas games for the Vikings in the last four seasons, as they hosted games in London in 2022 (against the New Orleans Saints) and in 2024 (against the New York Jets).
Strangely, the Vikings have also faced both the Steelers and the Browns overseas in previous years. Minnesota took on Pittsburgh back in 2013 at Wembley Stadium, holding off a last-minute drive by the Steelers to take home a 34-27 victory. They faced the Browns at Twickenham Stadium in 2017, overcoming a halftime deficit to emerge with a 33-16 win.
As we discussed yesterday, this will almost certainly mean the Vikings will be getting their bye in Week 6 after back-to-back overseas contests. We won’t know for sure until the schedule officially comes out, but it would be a bit of a surprise if they didn’t.
And, as we also mentioned yesterday, this means the Vikings are making history, per Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network.
For the first time in NFL history, a team will play two consecutive international games in two different countries: The #Vikings will face the #Browns in London at 9:30 a.m. ET on Oct. 5 on @nflnetwork. https://t.co/03w7K3VbAD
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) May 13, 2025
This will mark the first time in NFL history a team will play two consecutive international games in two different countries. Of course it’s the Vikings. . .why wouldn’t it be?
So, we know where and when two of the Vikings’ 17 games are going to happen, and they’ll both be on the other side of the pond early in the season. What do you think of this development, folks? Are you planning on making the trip to Europe to see one (or both) of these games?
