This is an intense sports weekend.
Friday kicks things off with the Ryder Cup, a festivity that will last across the entire three-day run. Saturday will bring with it the usual college football glory, but this week particularly we get games between Alabama and Georgia as well as Oregon and Penn State. Welcome to conference play, everyone.
Sunday’s NFL slate features a noon CT game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (both undefeated), an afternoon contest with the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens (both 1-2 so one will fall to 1-3), and the night game is the Dallas Cowboys hosting the Green Bay Packers with the two meeting for the first time since the latter blew the doors off of the former in the same building in the playoffs two years ago. Oh, and Micah Parsons was traded to the Packers a month ago.
Needless to say this weekend is amazing. You are going to want to make sure your fridge is stocked and your couch is comfortable. Whatever you are planning on eating you are also going to need to include something along the lines of breakfast because Sunday morning has football as well. Again… this weekend rules.
The first international game of the NFL season takes place this Sunday morning in Dublin of all places. There have been efforts from all sorts of people to get the NFL into Ireland for some time now, and I personally have spoken to both Ryan Fitzpatrick and Julian Edelman through their partnerships with Jameson in the past about making it happen. They did it.
In an effort to celebrate the first-ever regular season American pro football game in Dublin, Jameson Irish Whiskey created a one of-a-kind keepsake for football fans alike. It is sick.
They are calling it the Jameson Football Flask – an actual, regulation-sized leather football that can hold a 750mL bottle of Jameson Whiskey. The handmade Jameson Football Flask is available for purchase beginning this Thursday, 9/25 for $109.99 (including a bottle of Jameson of course), exclusively on ReserveBar.com, while supplies last.
It really is something to see an NFL game finally make its way to Dublin after all of these years of it being just an idea.
Kickoff between the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers is set to happen in Dublin on Sunday at 9:30am ET.
