August 28, 2025 • 19 mins
This week, Michael is joined by Cork Senior Hurler Patrick Horgan. As we reach the one month countdown to the NFL Dublin Game, ‘Hoggie’ talks about his love for the NFL and his excitement for the historic first game.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Irish airline aer Lingus will proudly serve as the presenting
partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
using its new Airbus eight three twenty one xl or aircraft.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This brings the number.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Of transatlantic routes operated by the airline from Dublin, Shannon
and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers fans traveling to Ireland
for the big game can enjoy a relaxing journey when
they fly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
With air Lingus. Air Lingus, You're very welcome, everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome into the Irish series podcast. Michael here a week
NAV podcast and it's hell you what I said one week?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We are one week.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Away from the Pittsburgh Steelers opening game this season. I
on the road to kick off medlif Stadium against the
Jets six pm Sunday week Wait. Cannot say where to
watch the game yet, I hope that it is on
television in Ireland. In the UK. We will update socials etc.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
To let you know that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And obviously it is a massive, massive time for this team,
so much expectation, so much excitement ahead of the season,
and I know so many people are so excited not
just for Week one, but also for the NFL doublin game.
And look, this is for me the best time of
the year. And I'm just so so excited and Staelers Nation,
(01:30):
it's time to take flight with Erlingus, an official airline
partner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and a founding partner of
Staeters Ireland. There's never been a better time to book
your trip to Dublin with nineteen North American gaateways, including
flights from nearby Cleveland. Get ready for warm Irish hospitality
and plenty of room on board for your terrible title
whether it's game day or a getaway. Erlingus looks forward
(01:52):
to saying you're very welcome to the players and fans
of the Pittsburgh Steters. You can book now at airlinks
dot com. As we roll on this week on the
Irish Steeers Podcast presented by Erlingus, we've been a very
special guest to talk about in a few moments. But first,
before we do that, folks, some exciting news obviously, Just
first off, had a great weekend at the college football
(02:14):
game last weekend in Dublin, but one of the main
things I was asked was just a lot of frankly
Steelers fans NFL fans just weren't secured yet with a
ticket for the first ever NFL doublin game, and excited
to announce that there is another chance to secure tickets
for the first ever NFL doublin game in a Hill
sixteen ticket ballot which runs between the twenty sixth and
the thirty first of August, and only fans who have
(02:37):
not yet purchased tickets for this twenty twenty five game
will be eligible to be selected. You can apply for
a maximum of four tickets as part of this process.
It's on the Denen's Hill sixteen stand. If you're successful
in the ballot, you will be charged. If you're not,
you won't. All successful applicants will be randomly selected. If
(02:58):
you're unsuccessful or complete bat submissions will not be charged,
but your payment details will be to leaded as well,
so you can check that out TM. Sorry it's NFL
dot tmtickets dot ie and the battle closes at twenty
three to fifty nine US eleven fifty nine pm this
Sunday night, thirty first of August. If you're successful, you'll
(03:19):
know via email by Tuesday, the ninth of September, so
we'd love to see you there.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
This week we have a.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Great guest on the Irish Sais podcast presented by Erling
is one of the most well known Hurland players across Ireland.
If you're a Cork fan or if you live around Cork,
you'll definitely know who this guy is. Patrick Horgan joins
us on Irish Steelers podcast as we get.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Closer to the season.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
One week away from.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The NFL season starting now, this podcast is kicking back
into gear. Delighted to walk him in. A very well
known man run Cork. I know a lot of people
will have seen him throughout the last few months and
throughout the last few years. Patrick Horgan on the Irish
Saiers podcast. Hogy as anomber of my Cork made call you, sir?
What's the crack Patrick Fischer coming on?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No? Not bad, No, just tipping away. We're playing the wrong
games now at a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But I just heard you there.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
The the NFL season starting is it next week or
the week after? And yeah, every Sunda night from six
to twelve is gonna be taken up anyway?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Do you stay up past twelve or is it very
much like bad time red zone or what? What like?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Would you ever stay up late late?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
As the question, I know I truggled past the twelve.
I go six to twelve the two games, like you
get the six o'clock in the nines. But after that
it's I'd like that sometimes because usually they put the
best games on it after that. Again, so they're kind
of enticing into watching it, but not it's it's almost
impossible offering among the morns.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Have you have you many mates that are into it?
So for example, what's like, what's the super Bowl night
like in the Horgan household?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Uh No, I just I sit down about quarter to
six and throwing the red zone and I'm a way
into twelve like but oh my buddies doing the same.
So we're always texting back and forward. One or two
fellers have a docket done, and we're looking at that
and looking at the farm. And it never the fawn
never works out because there's always upsets, and that's good
to follow.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look, anybody that knows you and knows what you do.
We're not gonna goin to the herland talk here, but
to cut around it, Steelers are playing in Croke Park
four or five weeks time. Historic for any on the
fence NFL fan, For any NFL fan, it's been a
religious fan for years.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I think a lot of people know how special Crouk
Park is, and I know we can jump on it.
Patrick can say, like, you know, Parky Quews special as well,
if only we could have a game there. But it'll
be pretty cool to see an NFL team or an
NFL game happened in that stadium in a few weeks time.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, it's going to be It's going to be crazy.
I suppose.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Like those boys are used to playing in like mega
stadiums and all that. But I'm pretty sure that when
even day walk around to crow Park, they'll definitely have
a look around and be like, do.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know whoa this is? This is the real leal here.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It's it's that it's that kind of big and that
kind of you just get that feedlom and you walk
in and they'll get out of a no doubt.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I can imagine what they're going to be like, not
just the players, but like even the media, the people
in America around the world watching when they see the
hell hell is going to be seated. Just to remind
people listening right now that there is a ballot going
on at the moment. I mean, the hell is pretty special.
What's it like walking past that before a game when
you see everybody going mad?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh savage, Like the whole thing is like.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
But just as we're on about, like you know, the
NFL being different than obviously seating everybody in the kind
of atmosphere that their own NFL games, Like, I think
it'll open a lot of people's eyes, like you know
around the GA like that, do you know this kind
of an atmosphere can be brought to GA matches as well, Like,
no matter who's playing, doesn't have to be the biggest
game of the year. It doesn't have to be. But
(06:54):
in general, like it's a it's a sport kind of
made for like fun and people to have fun out in.
Its kind of a part of the atmosphere and everybody's
having a great time. And yeah, something that the GA
probably could learn a bit from.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think that's definitely a convert it's gonna be. It's
it's genuinely gonna be interesting to see what the NFL
does around the city of the Steers, but that'll be
something we'll see in the next few weeks. And yeah,
imagine a big party they got on all Arn and
final Day. It's one of those things. And we were
talking I guess briefly over the last couple of days,
and one thing I didn't mention, Patrick, but I know
you've probably seen in the news is a lot of
(07:31):
these different Irish athletes are starting to kick in the NFL.
I know it's a bit different to you know, hurling
in the sense of you know, you're not kicking as
a sliver all the time in that sense, but when
you see guys like from different parts of the island,
it's really interesting because we've seen guys go to like
(07:51):
Ousie Whels before, but this is completely different.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
It's probably the hardest thing to do, Like as you
see probably a lot of the Irish lads as kickers
because it's so specialized. I suppose I've been to I've
been to five or six games in America and I
go like say tours before the match to see like
what they're doing there and the kicker is there for
as long as the field, as I suppose, as long
(08:17):
as they're there, they're on the field. Kicking just never
seems to stop. So it's obviously like a really high
level to get that. And even though the other positions
like the snapper, like, yeah, I watched I watched the
snapper like for an hour and a half doing the
same move one night in a warm up to know
before a game, and I'm being on.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It looks easy, but obviously there's there's levels all that.
So and the kicker is the same.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
And we've a load of fellas gone over and chance
and drama and they've been like their boomers and legs like,
but obviously there's fellows over there and they can they
can kick it as well leg So it's it's it's
it's uneasy to see it.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And it's only staffed they know.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
So I can imagine in a couple of years that
it'll it'll open up even more.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't worry. I'll I'll ask what I asked Dean
Rock about doing it whenever he retires. I'm joking we'll
not even get in that conversation. But yeah, there we go.
In terms of stem. Just on the topic of Ireland,
is to Wee Sack and Patrick. Steelers obviously have a
lot of links to the island. They left newly in
eighteen forty and I'm nearly sure. So when I was
(09:21):
talking to young Dan Rooney he went to the epic
Immigration Museum in Dublin and actually seeing Cork pop up
on the map. I mean, look, that story is massive
in the fact that there's only one team now with
the original ownership, which is the Rooney family, regardless of
who anybody supports fan wise in Ireland. For a lot
(09:41):
of people like there's no relationship that a team has
with another country, then the Steelers have to Ireland. That's
that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, that's something I didn't know as of but yeah,
it's it's it's crazy to think that there's do you
know at the NFL is such a big thing in
America that did you sails the it's they've.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Only had one owner. The Steelers only had one owner as.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Ever, consistently being the Rooney family, So they're almost like
they're almost like the original, like the original family in
that sense.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I definitely thought there'd be not a few that that
we're never sold or whatever like that. But yeah, that's
a bit crazy, and yeah, it's it's like the last
couple of years especially, there's been big ties with the
Steelers in Ireland's every look and social media know, like
they're in Crowth Park for all different things, like they're
(10:35):
lunches or there's dinners up there and all that.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I see them all happening. But yeah, it's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, one thing that has come up to my head
and it will be a real amiss of me not
to mention it. Obviously, get yourself on the podcast. The
man in charge of American Football Ireland is a quirkman
Alan and Maseny and I'm saying that because they have
been down to I think it's MTU. The Steelers have
been down to do a camp down in Cork as well.
The thing I'd say Patrick is for people listening, I'm
(11:03):
yet to me the bad court person. Everyone is just
lovely when he would die and it's good cracks. So
I'll definitely get on bad of trying to get some
of the party quep. At some point we were talking
off camera about Aaron Rodgers and I think sometimes when
people are following the NFL, they come in, they come
out in the off season. The biggest move of the
offseason for the Steelers has been to bring this guy in.
(11:24):
Even though he's entering his forties. I still think he
could do something. It's going to be really exciting. The
same playing in Dublin Man.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, it's funny. He's like we're talking a go about
like you know what, who's who be?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Mike kind of sided players, but he'd be definitely one
of them.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Like they never seem to get older. Fellas the boys.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Who throw the ball more than more than run, like
you know, there they could stay there forever.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You see Rogers big Ben.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Big Ben couldn't move yard like, but he he lasted
long enough, didn't he. Yeah, yeah, you would breeze doing
the same like they all seem to last. There's a
few running quarterbacks in the league. I just I don't
know the last year. It might last two, but they
kind of get found out really in the end. With
these boys just keep finding and Rogers.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Is one of them.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
And you see there people that kind of you know,
write them off as regards being over the league and
stuff like that. But he definitely still has the arm
for it. But yeah, I have a few buddies know
who are real Rogers Rogers fans.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'll talk about Big Ben and Louis sac And you
said you went to a number of games, or you've
been to a few games in the States or in
London or whatever. Have you ever been able to see
the Steelers or is that something on the bucket list
for next month.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I have to do it. I have to do Hopefully
it'll be in the next couple of weeks, but it's
something I have to do. I would have went to
just Boston for you know, a week trip or whatever
that the Patriots were saying all the time, so I
would just go to whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Game it's on there. And yeah, there were they will
go games, but they were I actually was lock.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I got to play, I got to I got to
see Peyton Manning Rogers actually with Green Bear the Falcons.
The year after the Super Bowl the Dolphins was the
first one. Wasn't great, uh Tannehill was.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Qby for them then, but yeah, it was, It's good.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
And I just everybody says like, oh, the game was
on for four I was like, what do you do?
But when you're actually there, it's so fast as so
much going on there's people on the field and all
different things. There's two minus ad breaks and there's someone
at some fello pulls from the crow kicking balls and
just non stop like and it doesn't feel like four.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It was like, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Actually great, Well, if Brady's.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Your number one hog, you like Rogers is your number
one now because he's still going. Just just finally on
that we're chatting off Cameron managed a big ben.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Is that is that guy?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Is that a guy that maybe was playing whenever you
first watched the sport and his longevity was something else.
I watching his final game in Pittsburgh and the crowd,
you know that the emotion was was was was amazing
on that Monday night. Is he a guy that you
got to see much of and your time watching.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Every Sunday night, like you could see like for years
for a good few years there he was kind of
like banged up and he was like taking hard hits
and it was like, oh how long was he gonna go?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
And this and that?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
But he always like all those tough flers like they
Ubays found away and they always just I suppose a
winners like mentality I suppose or whatever, and just kept
going through it like and up until the very end
like he he was producing, like wasn't he? But as
he said, like there was, there's a gang of about five.
There's a gang of about five of them who every
(14:43):
year like they were all they always done well. They
were never there was never something let them down.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
They always they always found the way. There's about fives there.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Just finally, you're still a young man. Okay, I'm not
putting you on the spot. Don't worry. I'm thirty four,
so I'm not gonna get in trouble. You're thirty six.
Very saving at the minute. You're talking with some of
these guys going into there lately at the thirties early forties,
you mentioned guys like Big Ben arn Rogers, Tom Braley.
For you as an athlete, because the awsome number of
g players is how do you know, control that and
(15:14):
just you know, continue to you know, ensure fitness every season,
especially when you're in such a fast piece game and
you're talking about a four our game with the NFL,
your game never stops.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I suppose the first part of it is like you
have to like, you have to like what you're doing.
You have to you have to love what you're doing
really because there's so much that has to go into
and if you're committed to putting in the time, that's
a that's required. I suppose anybody can do it, but
that's that's what's the hardest part. I suppose the the
gym every every second night and on the field every
(15:48):
other night, and they die it and making sure the
sleep and this is so much to it, I suppose,
and I suppose if you want it enough, you will
make it happen. Like you know, you put into work
and uh yeah, that's why I just find. I just
find training and stuff, like you know, go on the
training easy because you know you have a good team
and you've good teammates like that, you enjoy spending time with.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Everything just becomes a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Would you enjoy a five week training camp one and
a half hours away from home? I out your family
and friends like the NFL.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah one and a half where one and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So imagine like the Steelers had a training camp. They
don't get me wrong, The families and friends came up,
you know, every few days. But it's like an artists
like an ur and a half in Pittsburgh. They're staying
in the student halls. Is that something that you would
like yourself or or do you like being able to
go into home?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, if if we were getting the checks there we're
getting every month or every week. Yeah, no, obviously it's
not an easy thing to do for them either. They
obviously love what they're doing. And you know what, like
I would say NFL players are the best that leads
in the world.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know, you look at you look at.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Some of their body tie like and there's big men
on the line, and like everybody thinks they're just big men,
but they can move as well there they can move like.
So then you have the boys on the outside, do
you know, who are so agile and you know we
can probably take something from from somebody on the pitch,
like you know, from a horror point of view. And yeah,
(17:20):
you see those move with the boys on the outside
moving and sprinting and you know, avoiding tackles and challenges.
And I suppose there are letticism like something that you
know we look at I suppose and be.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Like, you know, that's like that's the dream.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Like so yeah, like the first man pops in the mind,
there is TJ wat J J Wats rather like for
the Steaders. The guy is huge, but.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
He can move.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I've seen him run theself and it was terrified. I
couldn't imagine un I couldn't imagine running at me.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Patrick looked.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Appreciate your time and obviously this this games coming up
in cook Park and I think it's fitting to somebody
like yourself to come on. Somebody's obviously played in cook
Park many times. We obviously play around Ireland and you're
for people listening. You're you're a big NFL fan as well,
so I certainly appreciate that. I know a lot of
our court listeners will appreciate it as well. And maybe
we'll see you in Croker in a few weeks. Thanks
for coming on, Blue, Thank.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You, thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Irish Airline Aerlingus will proudly serve as the presenting partner
of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in North
America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline prepares
to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
using its new Airbus eight three twenty one excel Or aircraft.
This brings the number of transatlantic routes operated by the
(18:54):
Airline from Dublin, Shannon and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers
fans traveling to Ireland for the big game and enjoy
a relaxing journey when they fly with their Lingus Air Lingus,
You're very welcome.
Irish airline aer Lingus will proudly serve as the presenting
partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
using its new Airbus eight three twenty one xl or aircraft.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This brings the number.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Of transatlantic routes operated by the airline from Dublin, Shannon
and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers fans traveling to Ireland
for the big game can enjoy a relaxing journey when
they fly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
With air Lingus. Air Lingus, You're very welcome, everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome into the Irish series podcast. Michael here a week
NAV podcast and it's hell you what I said one week?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We are one week.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Away from the Pittsburgh Steelers opening game this season. I
on the road to kick off medlif Stadium against the
Jets six pm Sunday week Wait. Cannot say where to
watch the game yet, I hope that it is on
television in Ireland. In the UK. We will update socials etc.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
To let you know that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And obviously it is a massive, massive time for this team,
so much expectation, so much excitement ahead of the season,
and I know so many people are so excited not
just for Week one, but also for the NFL doublin game.
And look, this is for me the best time of
the year. And I'm just so so excited and Staelers Nation,
(01:30):
it's time to take flight with Erlingus, an official airline
partner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and a founding partner of
Staeters Ireland. There's never been a better time to book
your trip to Dublin with nineteen North American gaateways, including
flights from nearby Cleveland. Get ready for warm Irish hospitality
and plenty of room on board for your terrible title
whether it's game day or a getaway. Erlingus looks forward
(01:52):
to saying you're very welcome to the players and fans
of the Pittsburgh Steters. You can book now at airlinks
dot com. As we roll on this week on the
Irish Steeers Podcast presented by Erlingus, we've been a very
special guest to talk about in a few moments. But first,
before we do that, folks, some exciting news obviously, Just
first off, had a great weekend at the college football
(02:14):
game last weekend in Dublin, but one of the main
things I was asked was just a lot of frankly
Steelers fans NFL fans just weren't secured yet with a
ticket for the first ever NFL doublin game, and excited
to announce that there is another chance to secure tickets
for the first ever NFL doublin game in a Hill
sixteen ticket ballot which runs between the twenty sixth and
the thirty first of August, and only fans who have
(02:37):
not yet purchased tickets for this twenty twenty five game
will be eligible to be selected. You can apply for
a maximum of four tickets as part of this process.
It's on the Denen's Hill sixteen stand. If you're successful
in the ballot, you will be charged. If you're not,
you won't. All successful applicants will be randomly selected. If
(02:58):
you're unsuccessful or complete bat submissions will not be charged,
but your payment details will be to leaded as well,
so you can check that out TM. Sorry it's NFL
dot tmtickets dot ie and the battle closes at twenty
three to fifty nine US eleven fifty nine pm this
Sunday night, thirty first of August. If you're successful, you'll
(03:19):
know via email by Tuesday, the ninth of September, so
we'd love to see you there.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
This week we have a.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Great guest on the Irish Sais podcast presented by Erling
is one of the most well known Hurland players across Ireland.
If you're a Cork fan or if you live around Cork,
you'll definitely know who this guy is. Patrick Horgan joins
us on Irish Steelers podcast as we get.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Closer to the season.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
One week away from.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The NFL season starting now, this podcast is kicking back
into gear. Delighted to walk him in. A very well
known man run Cork. I know a lot of people
will have seen him throughout the last few months and
throughout the last few years. Patrick Horgan on the Irish
Saiers podcast. Hogy as anomber of my Cork made call you, sir?
What's the crack Patrick Fischer coming on?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No? Not bad, No, just tipping away. We're playing the wrong
games now at a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But I just heard you there.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
The the NFL season starting is it next week or
the week after? And yeah, every Sunda night from six
to twelve is gonna be taken up anyway?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Do you stay up past twelve or is it very
much like bad time red zone or what? What like?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Would you ever stay up late late?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
As the question, I know I truggled past the twelve.
I go six to twelve the two games, like you
get the six o'clock in the nines. But after that
it's I'd like that sometimes because usually they put the
best games on it after that. Again, so they're kind
of enticing into watching it, but not it's it's almost
impossible offering among the morns.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Have you have you many mates that are into it?
So for example, what's like, what's the super Bowl night
like in the Horgan household?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Uh No, I just I sit down about quarter to
six and throwing the red zone and I'm a way
into twelve like but oh my buddies doing the same.
So we're always texting back and forward. One or two
fellers have a docket done, and we're looking at that
and looking at the farm. And it never the fawn
never works out because there's always upsets, and that's good
to follow.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look, anybody that knows you and knows what you do.
We're not gonna goin to the herland talk here, but
to cut around it, Steelers are playing in Croke Park
four or five weeks time. Historic for any on the
fence NFL fan, For any NFL fan, it's been a
religious fan for years.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I think a lot of people know how special Crouk
Park is, and I know we can jump on it.
Patrick can say, like, you know, Parky Quews special as well,
if only we could have a game there. But it'll
be pretty cool to see an NFL team or an
NFL game happened in that stadium in a few weeks time.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, it's going to be It's going to be crazy.
I suppose.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Like those boys are used to playing in like mega
stadiums and all that. But I'm pretty sure that when
even day walk around to crow Park, they'll definitely have
a look around and be like, do.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know whoa this is? This is the real leal here.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It's it's that it's that kind of big and that
kind of you just get that feedlom and you walk
in and they'll get out of a no doubt.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I can imagine what they're going to be like, not
just the players, but like even the media, the people
in America around the world watching when they see the
hell hell is going to be seated. Just to remind
people listening right now that there is a ballot going
on at the moment. I mean, the hell is pretty special.
What's it like walking past that before a game when
you see everybody going mad?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh savage, Like the whole thing is like.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
But just as we're on about, like you know, the
NFL being different than obviously seating everybody in the kind
of atmosphere that their own NFL games, Like, I think
it'll open a lot of people's eyes, like you know
around the GA like that, do you know this kind
of an atmosphere can be brought to GA matches as well, Like,
no matter who's playing, doesn't have to be the biggest
game of the year. It doesn't have to be. But
(06:54):
in general, like it's a it's a sport kind of
made for like fun and people to have fun out in.
Its kind of a part of the atmosphere and everybody's
having a great time. And yeah, something that the GA
probably could learn a bit from.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think that's definitely a convert it's gonna be. It's
it's genuinely gonna be interesting to see what the NFL
does around the city of the Steers, but that'll be
something we'll see in the next few weeks. And yeah,
imagine a big party they got on all Arn and
final Day. It's one of those things. And we were
talking I guess briefly over the last couple of days,
and one thing I didn't mention, Patrick, but I know
you've probably seen in the news is a lot of
(07:31):
these different Irish athletes are starting to kick in the NFL.
I know it's a bit different to you know, hurling
in the sense of you know, you're not kicking as
a sliver all the time in that sense, but when
you see guys like from different parts of the island,
it's really interesting because we've seen guys go to like
(07:51):
Ousie Whels before, but this is completely different.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
It's probably the hardest thing to do, Like as you
see probably a lot of the Irish lads as kickers
because it's so specialized. I suppose I've been to I've
been to five or six games in America and I
go like say tours before the match to see like
what they're doing there and the kicker is there for
as long as the field, as I suppose, as long
(08:17):
as they're there, they're on the field. Kicking just never
seems to stop. So it's obviously like a really high
level to get that. And even though the other positions
like the snapper, like, yeah, I watched I watched the
snapper like for an hour and a half doing the
same move one night in a warm up to know
before a game, and I'm being on.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It looks easy, but obviously there's there's levels all that.
So and the kicker is the same.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
And we've a load of fellas gone over and chance
and drama and they've been like their boomers and legs like,
but obviously there's fellows over there and they can they
can kick it as well leg So it's it's it's
it's uneasy to see it.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And it's only staffed they know.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
So I can imagine in a couple of years that
it'll it'll open up even more.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't worry. I'll I'll ask what I asked Dean
Rock about doing it whenever he retires. I'm joking we'll
not even get in that conversation. But yeah, there we go.
In terms of stem. Just on the topic of Ireland,
is to Wee Sack and Patrick. Steelers obviously have a
lot of links to the island. They left newly in
eighteen forty and I'm nearly sure. So when I was
(09:21):
talking to young Dan Rooney he went to the epic
Immigration Museum in Dublin and actually seeing Cork pop up
on the map. I mean, look, that story is massive
in the fact that there's only one team now with
the original ownership, which is the Rooney family, regardless of
who anybody supports fan wise in Ireland. For a lot
(09:41):
of people like there's no relationship that a team has
with another country, then the Steelers have to Ireland. That's
that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, that's something I didn't know as of but yeah,
it's it's it's crazy to think that there's do you
know at the NFL is such a big thing in
America that did you sails the it's they've.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Only had one owner. The Steelers only had one owner as.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Ever, consistently being the Rooney family, So they're almost like
they're almost like the original, like the original family in
that sense.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I definitely thought there'd be not a few that that
we're never sold or whatever like that. But yeah, that's
a bit crazy, and yeah, it's it's like the last
couple of years especially, there's been big ties with the
Steelers in Ireland's every look and social media know, like
they're in Crowth Park for all different things, like they're
(10:35):
lunches or there's dinners up there and all that.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I see them all happening. But yeah, it's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, one thing that has come up to my head
and it will be a real amiss of me not
to mention it. Obviously, get yourself on the podcast. The
man in charge of American Football Ireland is a quirkman
Alan and Maseny and I'm saying that because they have
been down to I think it's MTU. The Steelers have
been down to do a camp down in Cork as well.
The thing I'd say Patrick is for people listening, I'm
(11:03):
yet to me the bad court person. Everyone is just
lovely when he would die and it's good cracks. So
I'll definitely get on bad of trying to get some
of the party quep. At some point we were talking
off camera about Aaron Rodgers and I think sometimes when
people are following the NFL, they come in, they come
out in the off season. The biggest move of the
offseason for the Steelers has been to bring this guy in.
(11:24):
Even though he's entering his forties. I still think he
could do something. It's going to be really exciting. The
same playing in Dublin Man.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, it's funny. He's like we're talking a go about
like you know what, who's who be?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Mike kind of sided players, but he'd be definitely one
of them.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Like they never seem to get older. Fellas the boys.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Who throw the ball more than more than run, like
you know, there they could stay there forever.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You see Rogers big Ben.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Big Ben couldn't move yard like, but he he lasted
long enough, didn't he. Yeah, yeah, you would breeze doing
the same like they all seem to last. There's a
few running quarterbacks in the league. I just I don't
know the last year. It might last two, but they
kind of get found out really in the end. With
these boys just keep finding and Rogers.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Is one of them.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
And you see there people that kind of you know,
write them off as regards being over the league and
stuff like that. But he definitely still has the arm
for it. But yeah, I have a few buddies know
who are real Rogers Rogers fans.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'll talk about Big Ben and Louis sac And you
said you went to a number of games, or you've
been to a few games in the States or in
London or whatever. Have you ever been able to see
the Steelers or is that something on the bucket list
for next month.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I have to do it. I have to do Hopefully
it'll be in the next couple of weeks, but it's
something I have to do. I would have went to
just Boston for you know, a week trip or whatever
that the Patriots were saying all the time, so I
would just go to whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Game it's on there. And yeah, there were they will
go games, but they were I actually was lock.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I got to play, I got to I got to
see Peyton Manning Rogers actually with Green Bear the Falcons.
The year after the Super Bowl the Dolphins was the
first one. Wasn't great, uh Tannehill was.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Qby for them then, but yeah, it was, It's good.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
And I just everybody says like, oh, the game was
on for four I was like, what do you do?
But when you're actually there, it's so fast as so
much going on there's people on the field and all
different things. There's two minus ad breaks and there's someone
at some fello pulls from the crow kicking balls and
just non stop like and it doesn't feel like four.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It was like, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Actually great, Well, if Brady's.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Your number one hog, you like Rogers is your number
one now because he's still going. Just just finally on
that we're chatting off Cameron managed a big ben.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Is that is that guy?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Is that a guy that maybe was playing whenever you
first watched the sport and his longevity was something else.
I watching his final game in Pittsburgh and the crowd,
you know that the emotion was was was was amazing
on that Monday night. Is he a guy that you
got to see much of and your time watching.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Every Sunday night, like you could see like for years
for a good few years there he was kind of
like banged up and he was like taking hard hits
and it was like, oh how long was he gonna go?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
And this and that?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
But he always like all those tough flers like they
Ubays found away and they always just I suppose a
winners like mentality I suppose or whatever, and just kept
going through it like and up until the very end
like he he was producing, like wasn't he? But as
he said, like there was, there's a gang of about five.
There's a gang of about five of them who every
(14:43):
year like they were all they always done well. They
were never there was never something let them down.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
They always they always found the way. There's about fives there.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Just finally, you're still a young man. Okay, I'm not
putting you on the spot. Don't worry. I'm thirty four,
so I'm not gonna get in trouble. You're thirty six.
Very saving at the minute. You're talking with some of
these guys going into there lately at the thirties early forties,
you mentioned guys like Big Ben arn Rogers, Tom Braley.
For you as an athlete, because the awsome number of
g players is how do you know, control that and
(15:14):
just you know, continue to you know, ensure fitness every season,
especially when you're in such a fast piece game and
you're talking about a four our game with the NFL,
your game never stops.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I suppose the first part of it is like you
have to like, you have to like what you're doing.
You have to you have to love what you're doing
really because there's so much that has to go into
and if you're committed to putting in the time, that's
a that's required. I suppose anybody can do it, but
that's that's what's the hardest part. I suppose the the
gym every every second night and on the field every
(15:48):
other night, and they die it and making sure the
sleep and this is so much to it, I suppose,
and I suppose if you want it enough, you will
make it happen. Like you know, you put into work
and uh yeah, that's why I just find. I just
find training and stuff, like you know, go on the
training easy because you know you have a good team
and you've good teammates like that, you enjoy spending time with.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Everything just becomes a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Would you enjoy a five week training camp one and
a half hours away from home? I out your family
and friends like the NFL.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah one and a half where one and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So imagine like the Steelers had a training camp. They
don't get me wrong, The families and friends came up,
you know, every few days. But it's like an artists
like an ur and a half in Pittsburgh. They're staying
in the student halls. Is that something that you would
like yourself or or do you like being able to
go into home?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, if if we were getting the checks there we're
getting every month or every week. Yeah, no, obviously it's
not an easy thing to do for them either. They
obviously love what they're doing. And you know what, like
I would say NFL players are the best that leads
in the world.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know, you look at you look at.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Some of their body tie like and there's big men
on the line, and like everybody thinks they're just big men,
but they can move as well there they can move like.
So then you have the boys on the outside, do
you know, who are so agile and you know we
can probably take something from from somebody on the pitch,
like you know, from a horror point of view. And yeah,
(17:20):
you see those move with the boys on the outside
moving and sprinting and you know, avoiding tackles and challenges.
And I suppose there are letticism like something that you
know we look at I suppose and be.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Like, you know, that's like that's the dream.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Like so yeah, like the first man pops in the mind,
there is TJ wat J J Wats rather like for
the Steaders. The guy is huge, but.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
He can move.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I've seen him run theself and it was terrified. I
couldn't imagine un I couldn't imagine running at me.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Patrick looked.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Appreciate your time and obviously this this games coming up
in cook Park and I think it's fitting to somebody
like yourself to come on. Somebody's obviously played in cook
Park many times. We obviously play around Ireland and you're
for people listening. You're you're a big NFL fan as well,
so I certainly appreciate that. I know a lot of
our court listeners will appreciate it as well. And maybe
we'll see you in Croker in a few weeks. Thanks
for coming on, Blue, Thank.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You, thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
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