Watching the NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings from my position on the couch about six kilometres away from Croke Park last Sunday was quite disorientating. For a start, watching an NFL game while it’s still bright outside was a new one on me.
But there was also that feeling of the familiar mixing with the extremely unfamiliar in rather strange and wonderful ways. There was one shot on the television coverage right at the kick-off for the start of the second half – so at about 4.30pm – when the sun was dipping down just under the corner of the Davin and Hogan Stands, which reminded me intensely of one of the best photographs of any All-Ireland final day, as Mayo’s Rob Hennelly watched the Dublin team lift Sam Maguire after the 2013 All-Ireland football final.
I’m a split-season man, but there’s something
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