{"id":49102,"date":"2025-09-28T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49102\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:13:08","slug":"american-football-star-allegedly-jumped-and-robbed-in-ireland-ahead-of-nfl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49102\/","title":{"rendered":"American Football star allegedly &#8216;jumped and robbed&#8217; in Ireland ahead of NFL game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American Football player visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ireland<\/a> for the NFL&#8217;s much-anticipated game today was allegedly assaulted and robbed in Dublin on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Skylar Thompson, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback currently on injured reserve, reportedly sustained minor injuries in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>NFL Network journalist Tom Pelissero broke the news on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a>, reporting that Thompson sustained minor injuries in the attack but is &#8220;OK and with the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1905545\/a-pricey-pizza-brazen-driver-s-takeaway-trip-backfires-after-gardai-add-a-premium.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #800080;\">READ MORE |\u00a0&#8216;A pricey pizza&#8217; &#8211; Brazen driver&#8217;s takeaway trip backfires after garda\u00ed add a premium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Steelers spokesman Burt Lauten said: &#8220;We are aware of a situation involving Skylar Thompson on Friday night in Dublin. We will have no further comment at this time as we are working with NFL security to gather more information regarding the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers are in the capital to face the Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park on Sunday afternoon, in what is the NFL&#8217;s first-ever regular season fixture to be staged here.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off was pencilled in for 2.30pm in what marks a historic moment as the NFL expands its international series to Ireland for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1905512\/rip-heartbreak-as-exceptional-young-irish-firefighter-and-dad-of-two-taken-too-soon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #800080;\">READ MORE |\u00a0RIP: Heartbreak as &#8216;exceptional&#8217; young Irish firefighter and dad-of-two &#8216;taken too soon&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American Football player visiting Ireland for the NFL&#8217;s much-anticipated game today was allegedly assaulted and robbed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,764,615,61,60,43,19147,35747],"class_list":["post-49102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-croke-park","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburg-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49102","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=49102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}