NFL may be Marmite but Dublin’s first taste goes down a treat

The pitch – apologies, the field - used for the first ever NFL regular-season game on this island was laid straight after Oasis had played the second of their summer concerts at GAA HQ.

Wide receiver DK Metcalf #4 of Pittsburgh Steelers celebrates his side making an interception. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

It started early Sunday morning with the sight of a guy in a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey filling his tank at a petrol station near Kill on the N6. 

There was the cyclist in a George Kittle San Francisco 49ers shirt pedalling along the Navan Road and, after that, the woman in the Minnesota Vikings colours taking a photo of the church on Iona Road.