There’s an old Irish saying: “What butter and whiskey won't cure, there is no cure for.”

For a brief moment on Sunday at a public watch party for the Steelers and Vikings game in Dublin, hundreds of Steelers fans groaned and began muttering when the Vikings made a fourth-quarter comeback.

To celebrate the international game, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership blocked off Sixth Street between Fort Duquesne and Penn Avenue, Downtown, setting up a large screen and speakers next to the Argentinian restaurant Gaucho for residents to watch the game for free.

When the Vikings showed signs of overtaking the Steelers, a crowd of several hundred fans, with runners from the Pittsburgh Great Race, which finished Downtown a couple of blocks away, began to grumble about the NFL being “fixed.”

“It’s

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