Christy O'Connor: NFL show the 46th big non-GAA sporting event at Croke Park
Sunday may have been all razzmatazz but three sellout crowds in the fourth largest stadium in Europe - the largest not used primarily for football – in just the last 17 months proves that there has been a lot more non-GAA events staged in Croke Park than people think.
Croke Park has hosted a lot more non-GAA sporting events than people think
When Michael McQuaid of Pro Football Ireland was interviewed on Newstalk Breakfast on Friday ahead of Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers-Minnesota Vikings NFL game, McQuaid lamented that it took the NFL 28 years to come back to Dublin after their first venture here with a pre-season game between the Steelers and the Chicago Bears in July 1997.
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