Overview
- The Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints arrived in Paris on Friday and the regular-season game at Stade de France is scheduled for Sunday, October 25 with a 9:30 a.m. ET kickoff.
- League and team officials say preparations continue and that the match will go ahead unless French authorities judge it unsafe, with NFL security staff on site to coordinate operations.
- Organizers canceled several fan events and parts of the NFL Experience as police presence increased in the city and the Steelers called off a planned Bastille gathering for safety reasons.
- The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert advising Americans in Paris to avoid demonstrations and areas of unrest, while local curfews and planned protests this weekend remain points of concern.
- Storm Austen also disrupted preparations, forcing practice cancellations and temporary closures, and the combination of protests and weather raises commercial and reputational risks for the NFL’s push into France.