Bonjour, Pittsburgh! Aaron Rodgers and Steelers Top Saints in Historic Paris Showdown

A aron Rodgers led the Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday to a 16-10 victory over the New Orleans Saints in the first NFL regular-season game in history played in Paris .

In the game, which was played without incident at the Stade de France , Rodgers, a four-time season MVP, passed for 212 yards and a touchdown pass.

With the victory, their third consecutive, the Steelers moved to five wins and two losses atop the American Conference North division , while the Saints fell to 2-5 in third place in the National Conference South.

The Steelers' offense got off to a dominant start against the Saints' defense, which they dragged for 51 yards in eight plays with Jaylen Warren as the battering ram who accounted for 43 of those yards , but they bogged down inside the red zone and had to settle for a 28-yard field goal that Chris Boswell converted to take a 3-0 lead .

In the second quarter, Tyler Shough moved the Saints' offense on a drive that covered 62 yards so that Daniel Carlson tied the game 3-3 after connecting on a 38-yard field goal .

The Pittsburgh team regained the lead (10-3) with a pass from Aaron Rodgers to the end zone that Darnell Washington caught , in a drive in which a 51-yard connection from Rodgers to DK Metcalf was key, leaving his team inside the Saints' five-yard line.

Third quarterback with the most touchdown passes

With this scoring pass, Rodgers became the third quarterback with the most "touchdown" passes in NFL history , with 540, still far behind Drew Brees , second with the most touchdown passes, with 571, and Tom Brady , first, with 649.

The New Orleans team reestablished its offense, which drove 51 yards to Devaughn Vele's touchdown, as he caught a pass from Shough that tied the game at 10-10.

The Steelers went into halftime with a 13-10 lead after Chris Boswell made a 47-yard field goal in the final second of the period.

At the start of the third quarter, the Saints chewed up half the clock on a drive that threatened to end in a touchdown, but at the 10-yard line from the end zone Shough was intercepted by Payton Wilson, a big play that the Steelers' offense turned into three more points, 16-10, with a Boswell field goal that proved to be the game-winner .

Before the start of this game, Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, said he had no doubt that the league will return to Paris with another regular-season game.

Goodell said this despite the fact that the NFL canceled several fan activities the previous Saturday due to the protests that the French capital has been repeatedly experiencing for the past couple of weeks.