{"id":48844,"date":"2025-09-28T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48844\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:10:07","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-player-assaulted-and-robbed-in-dublin-ahead-of-nfl-game-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48844\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers player assaulted and robbed in Dublin ahead of NFL game \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">American<\/a> football player visiting Dublin for Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Football League<\/a> (NFL) game in Croke Park was assaulted and robbed in the capital on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Skylar Thompson, a quarterback with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/american-football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/american-football\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>, suffered minor injuries in the incident. He did not require hospital treatment, sources said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Thompson is with the team but is not expected to play. He is currently in the reserve team following a previous injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Steelers are due to play the Minnesota Vikings in Croke Park at 2.30pm on Sunday as part of an international expansion of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Fans at Croke Park ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers vs Minnesota Vikings game. Photograph: Inpho\/Laszlo Geczo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P4S5KOUODFFBA4PIWLJO4WYJ24.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Fans at Croke Park ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers vs Minnesota Vikings game. Photograph: Inpho\/Laszlo Geczo <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokeswoman for the team told NFL journalist Tom Pelissero that it is \u201caware of a situation involving Skylar Thompson on Friday night in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe will have no further comment at this time as we are working with NFL security to gather more information regarding the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Garda has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American football player visiting Dublin for Sunday\u2019s National Football League (NFL) game in Croke Park was assaulted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23645,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-48844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-american-football","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}