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Bundee Aki and Jason Kelce at Croke Park on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Connacht Rugby ace Bundee Aki was spotted mingling with several NFL stars as he attended Croke Park to watch Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Fresh from the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia which concluded with a Test series win in August, Aki was spotted on the pitch exchanging a jersey with Steelers running back Kenneth Gainwell, who proved to be one of the the stars of the evening.<\/p>\n
Aki was later pictured with former Philadelphia Eagles centre and 2018 Super Bowl champion Jason Kelce in the corporate area of GAA HQ.<\/p>\n
More than 70,000 fans visited Croke Park to take in the first-ever regular season NFL game on Irish soil as the Steelers edged a 24-21 victory over the Vikings.<\/p>\n
Two touchdowns from Gainwell ultimately proved decisive as the Steelers raced to a 21-6 lead before a powerful response from the Vikings turned the showpiece event into a nailbiter.<\/p>\n
The attempted comeback ultimately proved to be too little, too late as the Steelers held on to maintain their position atop the AFC North division.<\/p>\n
It was a proud weekend for Galway-based fans of the NFL, with local band Clada delivering a showstopping performance in front of the Hill 16 during an intermission.<\/p>\n
The Connemara folk group has enjoyed a meteoric rise since arriving on the scene last year and shared their delight with the opportunity on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the pleasure of playing to over 74,000 people during the Steelers x Vikings game yesterday in Croke Park!<\/p>\n
\u201cTo say we\u2019re not over this experience would be an understatement, it was so much fun,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bundee Aki and Jason Kelce at Croke Park on Sunday. Connacht Rugby ace Bundee Aki was spotted mingling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,554,112],"class_list":["post-50881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joseph-murray","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50881","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=50881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}