Two words that will bring the V’s back to greatness: outside stadium.
Ping for the Minnesota list.
No taxpayer money should ever be used for garbage like this.
Not sure who holds the NFL ping list, but ping anyway.
All of these sports owners may rue the day when enough hard-core Lefties get elected and start taking their teams through Eminent Domain, since the taxpayer has largely been funding them anyway.
Probably worth it. But I hate it. I’m sick of pro sports teams holding cities hostage.
My thoughts are that people both liberal and conservative will line-up to vote in favor of giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a private industry so that they can build a production facility to play football.
And most of the folks voting to pay for a new stadium for private industry are the very same folks who claim that hate Socialism.
Oh, the irony!
Oh, the hypocrisy!
$5 billion structural deficit. Democrat governor, Republican legislature has 2 weeks to decide what to do.
Let’s take a break and talk football.
So all the Vikings need to do now is raise $1.2 billion in private funds to build the stadium.
Looks like Nassau County, LI, NY is going to set aside $200,000,000 to remodel the NY Islanders’ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. They’re also going to add a minor league baseball team, apparently.
Didn’t mean to hijack the thread if it seems that way. My allergies are killing me right now and it feels like more of a cold than sneezing every 2 minutes.
One of the proposals to pay for this is for the state to start and run a casino in downtown Mpls.
The State already runs the numbers racket. They want to muscle in on the Indians gambling racket.
A modest proposal: State run prostitution.
Another modest proposal: State sponsored protection racket.
Send a couple of big guys out to 3M headquarters. Tell the CEO, man you have a beautiful building here. I’d be a shame if anything happened to this nice building. Write a check for $50 million and we will guarantee nothing bad will go down here.
Perhaps if they spent $0.010 billion on some decent pass defense, they’d get better results
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Seriously, how long are the Vikings required to stay in Minnesota for this kind of money?
How much are the Vikings putting up?
What happens to the Metrodome?
Will the sale of the Metrodome land be applied to the stadium?
Does the price include road modifications to handle the traffic?
If these are answered like I think they’re going to be answered, then that is a lot of money for ~200 games (10 games/year x 20 years)
If it’s not an outdoor stadium, forget it.
If it’s an outdoor stadium, then find private investors.
This is the state that voted in Al Franken as a US Senator. I’m betting that a construction company will bid $1 billion and they’ll give them $3 billion. They’ll tear down their big mall and then build the stadium in Iowa.
But what are they going to do with the stadium in Minneapolis that has the collapsable roof?
And who gets stuck paying the huge bill for this gift to the NFL?
I say all such projects that will mandate the public play for it - that they be limited to voluntary contributions - that no taxpayer should be forced to pay a single penny for the facility. Further - if the facility cannot eventually pay the public back for the cost to build- through fees/ticket sales/etc. - then it has no business being built.
I don’t buy the whole “tourism” and “related windfall” that supposedly comes from these “deals”... particularly when team owners play blackmail games to get new stadiums built.