The Vikings Will Be Playing At The Metrodome Site Forever

by Brandon on Jan 25, 2012 5:01 AM CST in Green Bay Packers News

Vikings stadium: Metrodome site or bust - NFC North Blog - ESPN. With the Vikings dreams of a new stadium in Arden Hills dead, they've apparently been left with the only option that had little opposition: build a new stadium on the site of the existing Metrodome or whatever it is they call it.

I thought the threat of moving the Vikings to Los Angeles would get the Vikings a sweet deal, but apparently that threat isn't as real as it appears. The Vikings should have gotten Scott Boras to negotiate for them. He makes teams hand out mega-deals to free agents that don't seem to be going anywhere. (Did the Tigers have to give Fielder $214 million? Were they bidding against anybody or just themselves?)

So where will the Vikings play in 2012? Probably the Metrodome since the city of Minneapolis has nothing more than a "skimpy four-page outline" of a plan in hand. The Vikings might as well sign a one-year lease for the Metrodome in 2012 because it's going to be a while before this new stadium is built. They'll probably play in The Gopher Hole once construction begins. Of course, playing December football in that stadium is going to suck.

It looks like the Vikings blew it. Or maybe I should be impressed with the state of Minnesota's hard ball tactics that got them what they wanted and didn't cost them their NFL team.

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Hehehe

Vikings are poopyheads.

You gotta eat lightning and crap thunder, Plush!

by brewersfanatic on Jan 25, 2012 7:35 AM CST reply actions

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by Anthony Dilweg on Jan 25, 2012 11:02 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

Vikings blew it!

Yeah, the Vikings blew it and don’t be impressed with the state of Minnesota. They have built two stadiums and are committed to building another one to replaced the Metrodome. Lol.

by joeybal56 on Jan 25, 2012 11:29 AM CST reply actions

Terrible terrible deal

Okay so I live in Minnesota. I don’t want to see the Vikings move, it would be sad to see all my friends lose another team here (see the Lakers and Stars) but that said, I think this is just such a weak deal. They are going to be building on a landlocked site, have to move to a much more tiny stadium not built to be used in the winter, and will still have many of the same shortcomings they have now (sucky ramp parking, very little room for a tailgating experience, etc.

I am very disappointed they couldn’t get the Arden Hills site to work out. I was really looking forward to seeing that eyesore property fixed up into a beautiful stadium. It would have done amazing things for that area with new restaurants, homes, roads, etc. Now its just going to sit there forever until one day when the ecomony is bustling and some developer builds a ca-gillion cookie cutter homes on the property.

By the way, Mall of America Field has to be a top 5 worst stadium name ever. Not to mention no one ever calls it that because it sounds so dumb so the Mall of America really isn’t getting the bang for their buck that they should be.

The Green Bay Packers...Putting bad coaches out of their misery since 2010

by TrevorR on Jan 25, 2012 11:49 AM CST reply actions

I am all in favor of a recently "domed" team playing December 2012 games at a non-domed college stadium...

…provided that team is the Vikings, and provided they are playing a cold-weather team, and provided that cold-weather team is the Green Bay Packers.

This has boo-yah written all over it!

by HailVarsity on Jan 25, 2012 3:56 PM CST reply actions

So they're still gonna be playing in that marshmellow of a staduim?

I was kind of looking forward to seeing them go to LA where Jack Nicholas doesn’t give a shit about them as he sits and watches the Lakers Girls, but I’d really miss beating them twice a year every year. Oh well.

When life gives ya lemons, shut up and eat your damn lemons.
Brett Favre will lead the Vikings to a Victory in Super Bowl XLVI, Guaranteed! - REVENGE4FAVRE

by P-Townfan on Jan 25, 2012 11:00 PM CST reply actions

I don't believe

that Jack Nicklaus gives a damn about the Lakers.

Jack Nicholson, on the other hand…

"Perfection is not attainable,
but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

"We're nobody's underdog!"

"We don't play scared!"

After further review,
the Munsters of the Midway still suck!

by NorthStarr on Jan 26, 2012 1:25 AM CST up reply actions

Yep, he sees what you did there

When life gives ya lemons, shut up and eat your damn lemons.
Brett Favre will lead the Vikings to a Victory in Super Bowl XLVI, Guaranteed! - REVENGE4FAVRE

by P-Townfan on Jan 26, 2012 8:36 AM CST up reply actions