With NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell already in the area for mediation of the lingering labor dispute, he’ll be getting making the most of his time in Minnesota by spending time on the almost-as-thorny problem presented by the Vikings stadium.
Mike Kaszuba and Rochelle Olson of the Minneapolis Star Tribune report that Goodell will meet with Governor Mark Dayton on Tuesday morning.
A legislator who has been invited to the meeting said that one of the topics will be whether the Vikings and the NFL are willing to cough up more than the $407 million that already has been committed to the project. The problem is that plenty of people in Minnesota think that the team and the league should pay for all of it.