DUBLIN — When the Vikings are finally able to move on from Sunday’s 24-21 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, hopefully they’ll be able to fully appreciate that they got to be a small part of NFL history despite the result.

The first regular-season game the NFL hosted in Dublin was a smashing success by pretty much every measure.

It wasn’t simply that 74,512 showed up to Croke Park on a Sunday afternoon to watch the Vikings take on the Steelers. It was that fans from both sides flooded the streets of Dublin in the 72 hours or so leading up to the game.

A slice of Americana paired quite nicely with the many pints of Guinness being poured at pubs near and far.

The weather couldn’t have been much better a few hours before kickoff as the rainy weather usually synonymous with Dublin held off i

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