Vikings will play in Dublin then London back to back weeks....

[hogjowlsjohnny]

lol, reading some of the replies and tweets on Twitter.....fans are nuts, honest to God. Of all teams. So dramatic. Every day there's a four alarm fire in fandom online. Now the team is 'moving to London' and the 'NFL wants this'....

I don't know what these fans would do if they couldn't bait other team's fans with shit, there would be massive holes in their lives lol.

They are moving the franchise to Europe so they can become the perennial intercontinental world champions!
They will probably have to send someone along to keep McCarthy and O'Connell away from the Guinness and Jameson!

[badgervike]

So..they'll probably get to Dublin on a Thursday and leave Sunday right after the game to arrive Monday midday in Mpls. Give them Tuesday off and back to work on Weds for a Mon night game. Bring the families and make it a team bonding experience where they're all together for an extended period. That was one of the things about Mankato that was nice versus training camp at TCO.

The Vikings organization does a nice job at arranging activities for the families while the team is practicing.

[Zanary]

Interesting potential side stories to these games,   will Rogers be the Steelers QB in Dublin... how about that followed up with Cousins in London with the Browns?

That'd be interesting as hell, and the former is probably still a moderate possibility...but, the Browns currently have a QB room full to bursting, I don't think they're in the Kirko sweepstakes.

[JimmyinSD]

That'd be interesting as hell, and the former is probably still a moderate possibility...but, the Browns currently have a QB room full to bursting, I don't think they're in the Kirko sweepstakes.

you are likely right... it just popped into my head when I was thinking of proposed landing spots for him prior to the draft.

[comet52]

To me this is advantageous scheduling. The first game is at worst a neutral site rather than in a hostile Heinz Field. Vikings have a large Euro fan base, if they show up it could tilt it homeward. Viking have gotten used to the international travel having played there in 2022 and last year.

Second game is a clear advantage over a Browns team that has to travel for the game while the Vikings stay there. Not to mention who is gonna play QB for the Browns? What a mess.

Add in a game at the Chargers who have no home field and often have a hostile crowd at home and it was looking pretty good, almost like having 11 home games in a year with an 8/9 home road schedule. Unfortunately they made the Chargers a TNF game and longer travel for Thursday games is not favorable for the road team and probably negates some of the ability of Viking fans to travel to the game as well.

Trivia: The Vikings last played in Cleveland in 2009. Unless the Vikings finish in the same place in the NFC North as the Browns do in the AFC North in 2026, they will not appear in Cleveland again until 2033, a 24 year absence from beautiful scenic Cleveland. And people try to claim the NFL doesn't like the Vikings...

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So..they'll probably get to Dublin on a Thursday and leave Sunday right after the game to arrive Monday midday in Mpls. Give them Tuesday off and back to work on Weds for a Mon night game.

They're playing in London the week after Dublin so I don't think the above is happening.

[badgervike]

To me this is advantageous scheduling.  The first game is at worst a neutral site rather than in a hostile Heinz Field.  Vikings have a large Euro fan base, if they show up it could tilt it homeward.  Viking have gotten used to the international travel having played there in 2022 and last year.

Second game is a clear advantage over a Browns team that has to travel for the game while the Vikings stay there.  Not to mention who is gonna play QB for the Browns?  What a mess.

Add in a game at the Chargers who have no home field and often have a hostile crowd at home and it was looking pretty good, almost like having 11 home games in a year with an 8/9 home road schedule. Unfortunately they made the Chargers a TNF game and longer travel for Thursday games is not favorable for the road team and probably negates some of the ability of Viking fans to travel to the game as well.

Trivia: The Vikings last played in Cleveland in 2009.  Unless the Vikings finish in the same place in the NFC North as the Browns do in the AFC North in 2026, they will not appear in Cleveland again until 2033, a 24 year absence from beautiful scenic Cleveland.  And people try to claim the NFL doesn't like the Vikings...

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They're playing in London the week after Dublin so I don't think the above is happening.

I meant Sunday night after the London game.  The flight from Dublin to London City is only about an hour and a half.  They'll be in London all week to practice and hang out together after practice.  So..total..they'll be gone around 10 days.  That's not bad if it buys you two neutral site away games and some bonding time together as a team.