The New Vikings Stadium Is a Broken Window Metaphor Come to Life

Reason ^ | 7/26/16 | Eric Boehm

[Dilbert San Diego]

Does any other stadium in any sport, have a team hall of fame/museum, and give tours of the stadium, as they do at Lambeau Field? If so, I’m not familiar with any.

[Vision Thing]

Jawas > Ewoks.

Eff anything in the Star Wars franchise that was made after The Empire Strikes Back.

[Joe Boucher]

2 things involved here.
Get the Braves out of Atlanta as the city is taxing EVERYTHING to pay for their crappola.
2nd, white flight from the city has gone to the Northwest of Atlanta.
Braves following the money.

[ops33]

Yeah, but he never really and truly intended to break the window when he threw the rock so it is ok.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Incredibly, the Vikings say it will take up to two months to replace the damaged window at U.S Bank Stadium, since all the glass panels were custom-made. There's no word on how much those massive, custom-made glass panels will cost to replace, but they probably won't be cheap.

BLM is alive and well in Minneapolis, which also has a vibrant Somali population. I'm sure glad that fact above is now known publicly.

[wintertime]

Government school K-12 sports are nothing more than taxpayer supported farm teams for the big leagues.

The major leagues, by the way, could pay for their own minor leagues but why do this if the taxpayer is dumb enough to do it for them?

Please remember this as you drive by your local government owned and run middle and high schools.

[Lower Deck]

I heard an ex-sailor in 1968 tell of transparent aluminum armor. He saw it in use on a warship of the time.

Did he speak with a Scottish accent and appear like he was from the future?

[wally_bert]

Apparently most tax slaves are fine with being ripped off and I get funny looks when I dare mention anything critical about “big education”.

A little light ball at recess or after hours is no big deal but a mini sports league with taj mahal stadiums and tons of blind is another.

[BTCM]

As an old sailor that’s heard more than his share of “sea stories” that usually start in the local CPO club bar that begin with the preamble. “this is no chit”, I suspect this might be the origins of the transparent aluminum. Tales such as this along with the Golden Rivet, Sea Bat, Mail Buoy look out, etc. come to light during many hours of boredom and gullible newbies.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Since Lambeau Field was renovated, it has attracted more tourists. That translates into more money for the mom and pop sports bars and restaurants surrounding the stadium.

A little back-story about the Lambeau Field renovation:

I lived in the Green bay area for about 20 years, finally moving south a couple of years back. When the referendum for public financing of the renovation was on the ballot, there were two questions which I will paraphrase:
1) should Brown County institute a 1/2% sales tax to fund the renovation?
2) Should Brown county be able to divert a portion of the new tax to the general fund?

#1 passed, but #2 failed.

The then Brown County Executive, Nancy Nussbaum(D), immediately wailed that without this tax money, the county would have to close a bunch of libraries (didn't happen BTW, but it shows the typical liberal whining when things don't go their way). Since the county wasn't able to get their greedy paws on this money, the renovation was paid off and the extra tax went away.