NFL fans have been left disappointed after over 660,000 people were attempting to buy tickets for the Croke Park fixture.
Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers will head to Dublin on September 28 for the first time that Croke Park has hosted a regular league fixture.
Ireland’s largest sporting arena and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), will house around 76,000 football fans on the day.
It appears as though there’ll be no issues about selling the tickets, despite being priced between €85 for the cheapest and €295 for a category one ticket.
At the time of writing, there were over 660,000 people waiting in the queue with an estimated wait time of “more than an hour.”
However, that waiting time seems extremely optimistic.
NFL fans frustrated at Croke Park ticket queue
One fan waiting for a ticket wrote on Twitter: “I am proud to annouce, 90 minutes after they went on sale, I am finally within 360,000 of people to buy Croke Park tickets.”
Another added: “Started at 228,000 and now I’m 222,000 in the queue in two hours. Figure at this rate, I should be able to get tickets for the 2043 Dublin game.”
A third said: “I’ve moved like 1000 places in an hour and 17 mins in this queue forNFL Dublintickets…”
Tickets went on sale at 12pm via Ticketmaster, and just over two hours later, a live update claimed there were still tickets available.
Minnesota Vikings head coach excited to explore Irish roots
Kevin O’Connell, who has Irish heritage, is relishing the opportunity to visit Ireland for the first time and hopes he can help convert local fans to follow the Vikings.
Following the announcement of the fixture, he said: “My family is very excited about getting an opportunity to visit Ireland.
“We actually have never been before. It’s been something that I’ve very much been looking forward to getting an opportunity to do.
“I didn’t know it would inevitably come with bringing my football team over as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, but definitely something that I’ll be diving into and continuing to learn more and more about in the days and weeks leading up to our trip for sure.
“It would be short-sighted of me as a head coach to not really engage in learning about the great history,” he added.
“I’ve already learned in a very short amount of time about many aspects of what makes Croke Park so special and an amazing venue for us to get the opportunity to play at and I know our players will feel the same.
“We’re going to try to make the most of it and look forward to building a lot of relationships and hopefully acquire some new Minnesota Vikings fans along the way.”
It is just one of seven matches being played on international soil, with a further three in London, Berlin, Madrid and one in Brazil.