The Vikings take a 10-day, 2-game trip to Dublin and London, an NFL first. How did they pull it off?

The collection of passports for each member of the nearly 200-person traveling party the Minnesota Vikings began more than five months ago, when team operations staff initiated preparations for an unprecedented NFL road trip. Regular reminders to players, coaches and everyone else in the organization going to Dublin and London — to either locate or renew this nonnegotiable prerequisite for an overseas trip — continued throughout the spring and summer until all of them were secured together in one case. Having played four international games over the past 12 years, the Vikings had a plan for the passports — and just about everything else.