{"id":933200,"date":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","slug":"nfl-reiterates-plan-to-play-steelers-saints-in-paris-despite-local-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933200\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL reiterates plan to play Steelers-Saints in Paris, despite local unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ongoing <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-school-protests-what-to-know-4e3bea86a5be39904c90f15ee96e3a24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social unrest in Paris<\/a> has raised questions regarding the Steelers-Saints game due to be played there in 11 days.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the league issued a statement indicating that it\u2019s full steam ahead in the land of berets and really long, skinny loaves of bread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited for the first-ever regular season game in Paris, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bepryor\/status\/2110446736728580308?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">preparations continue<\/a> as scheduled for NFL events and the game at Stade de France on October 25,\u201d the NFL said in a statement, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN. \u201cAs we do for every NFL game, including our international games, we work closely with local authorities and partners on all operational and security matters. We look forward to welcoming fans to Paris later this month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether they \u201clook forward\u201d to it and whether it will actually happen are two different things. And if the NFL ultimately concludes that the staging of the game will present safety issues for anyone involved, the NFL surely will reconsider its plans.<\/p>\n<p>The most obvious alternative would be to play the game in New Orleans. When the NFL decided in 2018 that the field in Mexico City was unsuitable for play, the Chiefs-Rams game was moved to L.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ongoing social unrest in Paris has raised questions regarding the Steelers-Saints game due to be played there in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-933200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}