Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Cameron Heyward (97) and quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) and head coach Mike Tomlin leave the field after an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Mike Tomlin isn’t using the Pittsburgh Steelers’ trip to Ireland as a reason to offer up a history lesson about what the team and the Rooney family mean to Ireland.

There’s no need.

Yes, the team’s ties to the Emerald Isle run deep. Yet Tomlin knew Hall of Famer and former U.S. ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney — still known almost universally as Mr. Rooney nearing a decade after his death — well enough to know how Rooney would feel if the Steelers spent the run-up to Sunday’s game against Minnesota at Croke Park in Dublin

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