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WTF Happened to Vikings vs Steelers (Dublin) TicketMaster Queue Tuesday?
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The Minnesota Vikings are playing two back-to-back games overseas next season . Their first will come in week four against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin, IE. Then, they will suit up the next week (five) for the second-straight year in London, UK; this time vs the Cleveland Browns.
There has been plenty of chatter surrounding the Vikings' extremely rare international doubleheader, most of it positive. For starters, the Browns will arrive just days before their week five overseas date with the Vikings (in London).
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While they are fighting jet lag and the many distractions that come with playing these novelty regular season games, the Minnesota Vikings should already be well adjusted, being they'll arrive a full week earlier and having already played one game just one short plane ride away.
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In theory, with this rare overseas doubleheader, Minnesota is also turning two of next season's away games into neutral site matchups. Not only that, but they are undefeated in both regular (4-0) and exhibition (4-0) games outside of the USA borders, during the Vikings long-storied franchise history.
How many people were trying to get Dublin (Minnesota Vikings vs Pittsburgh Steelers) tickets…?
Speaking of drawing well, tickets for Vikings vs Steelers in Ireland on September 28 went on sale Tuesday morning at TicketMaster.com . When fans in the USA logged on bright and early to try and snag a 2025 PIT vs MIN ticket, however, they were greeted to quite the unwelcome surprise.
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According to the automated online queue, those fans were told that hundreds of thousands of people were ahead of them in line, to purchase what appeared to be the hottest ticket in the world, all of a sudden. At its peak, the queue reached an unimaginable 600,000+ supposed people.
Been waiting months for the tickets to drop for Steelers game in Dublin. Get in the queue as early as you can get in. Only to see a quarter of a million people ahead of you like wtf🤦🏻♂️😂Been in the queue 38 minutes & it's only gone down 271 people.Find that a lil hard to believe🤦🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/FbEwtZOQDF
— Cam⚫️🌕 (@KillaCam0531) June 17, 2025
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Finally arrived in the queue for the NFL Dublin Game tickets 😂 pic.twitter.com/LRoQuIEGfz
— René Bugner (@RNBWCV) June 17, 2025
Don't worry. If you forgot to set an alarm for this morning, tickets are still available and the queue looks nothing like it did earlier in the day. In fact, you can take your chance now and wait a mear minute or two, vs some this morning who waited multiple hours.
WTF is going on in the TicketMaster queue?
But that begs the question: If there were that many interested people, when those tickets went on sale, how did the game not sell out in minutes? In case you are curious, Croke Park in Dublin holds an impressive 82,000 people, more than U.S. Bank Stadium (70,000).
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In case you struggle with math, the 750,000 people who have supposedly gone through the Minnesota Vikings vs Pittsburgh Steelers TicketMaster queue could sell the place out over nine times. Yet somehow (as of 1:50 PM CDT on Tuesday), you can login and still purchase multiple tickets all over the stadium.
Maybe the huge 600K number waiting in the Vikings vs Steelers (Dublin) ticket queue was mostly bots, a tech mistake? Here's what it looks like at 12:40 PM CDT. Tickets still available… pic.twitter.com/THeeW01eQN
— Minnesota Sports Fan (@realmnsportsfan) June 17, 2025
I have reached out to TicketMaster for more information on what happened with today's queue, which exponentially outperformed other international NFL games that use the same system, including the Vikings' very next game one week later in London vs the Browns.
It is worth noting, however, that tickets for that game in London remain much more widely available than week four in Dublin. If/when TicketMaster responds to our inquiry, this article will be updated.
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