vikings have sold out for 12 years straight.

groombar, your rhetoric is so pathetic, one sided, and non-factual, you should run for office or work for donald trump.

BTW, they are planning on building new bridges and the reason schools are closing is because smaller class sizes, overpaid unaccountable tenure teachers, inefficient older school buildings that waste energy, and overal eneficiencies that have not been dealt with over the last 20 years when no one was holding anyone accountable.

groombar, u will learn real soon that everyone has to be held acccountable, even the state of minnestoa for electing pawlenty for 2 terms that did not give a rats a$$ while he was the gov. so he could continously run on the platform of i dont raise taxes. in the meantime vikings left out in cold, local govt & school districts faced shrinking budgets, roads, bridges, and all other infrastructure went to crap cause pawlenty failed to face the music and attempt to deal with ANY of it.

All us me me me people, you know… The kind that think we ought to have bridges and schools paid for before we squander money on a billion dollar boondoggle that they have to give tickets away for so they can call it a “sell out”! During PLAYOFFS! PLAYOFFS no less!

And if you just added that you’d leave Minnesota too, well that’s even more incentive for people to write their politicians and tell them to vote no!

The legislature knows this has been brewing for 5 years, if letting the public vote on it was important to them, it should have been in the process a long time ago. Complain to your rep about that, not the people that want to keep the Vikings here!!

Every moron in the state is looking to jump on the “me vote no” bandwagon. Funny they were no where to be found b4.

The Vikings have done EVERYTHING asked of them. Its time for public to let your rep know how u feel and deal with it, thats what ive done. If it passes ill love it. If nothing is done and Vikings leave, so will I.

Im totally sick of all you morons jumping on “dont raise my taxes” bandwagon, me,me,me crap. EVERYONE knew this was coming so quit bitching.

Well, first off, the World Champion Green Bay Packers are a municipal team. So asking the public for some support wasn’t out of the question.

Second, it was put up for an up or down vote and passed. So if taxpayers want to pay taxes to renovate the greatest NFL stadium, so what? I also happen to have bought stock too. I wanted to support what I enjoyed and give something to my son.

What you are in favor of is no voting, doing it behind the scenes and just taking my money. 75% of people don’t want this! That’s stealing!

What are you going to pay for a Viking stadium? A few bucks? I’ll give you $100 to move away.

Why don’t you visit one of those libraries or museums sometime because they obviously haven’t made you any smarter.

viking football, on the other hand, doesn’t even teach kids winning… I’m a Packer fan and telling me to pay and pay and pay more for a loser franchise that can’t create its own self supporting fanbase isn’t fair.

I’d enjoy it if there was a bar across the street that served me free drinks and buffalo wings. Should society subsidize it for me? No…

Asking that the vikes do this isn’t being mean, it’s holding a business accountable – you know – societies new dirty “a” word.

When will this franchise be allowed to whither and die on its own accord? Every money making team writes this loser team a check already, now every citizen in Minnesota is gonna have to pay higher taxes, the companies have to buy tickets and give them to homeless folk under the illusion that it’s better to be in the humpty dump than out on the street (very debateable), just so they don’t keep getting blacked out, and now the NFL is going to just toss money at them?

It’s just not worth it anymore! At some point either there are the fans and support or there isn’t… But this just isn’t working for anyone except the couple folks that are fans…

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This is just too much of a non-sequitur to process. It’s not effective trolling if you leave your intended targets scratching their heads, Santo.

People in politics are really special, Your telling me the stadium will pay for itself when 80 percent of the money will come from People in the city that payed the taxes in the first place.

Its like a guy who has 200 bucks left in his bank account and decides to go and buy a new TV then realizes later he doesnt have money to eat.

These are not massively profitable, by any means, but the Vikings pay most of the operating costs according to the proposed Ramsey location and the county/state keeps the proceeds from those events, if I’m not mistaken.

That is why the State pays a portion. It isn’t just because of the competitive nature of getting one of the 32 NFL teams. It is also because of the multi-purpose nature of these stadiums. Asking the Vikings to pay for the entire bill is the same as the Vikings asking to pay the state for the entire bill.

The true question is who should pay how much. If the Vikes pay for the whole thing, then they get to keep all proceeds from all events. At that point, how much of a wash does it become?

Somehow I don’t see ol’ Roger walking up to a mic and announcing, “The NFL doesn’t want the State of Minnesota or it’s residents to lose schools, libraries, cops, or bridges just so we can have a mega stadium/mall/condo project to anchors a perennially crappy team that will use the facility 8 times a year.As such we will pay for own own stadium.”

We watched in amazement as the Sonics got swindled from Seattle as the NBA turned a blind eye. My advice to minnesota…work with the NFL and build a stadium, a cheap one if you must, or you will regret it! …now that clay bennett is in charge of nba expandtion, we will most likely never see our Sonics again.
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Whatever. I live in Seattle and I was grateful to see them go. Basketball sucks! Anybody who thinks it is a real sport is a PU$$Y. Do away with dribbling, add in tackling and they might have something. For now it is a GIRLS sport.

cant begin to tell you how much i hate roger goodell , he is the biggest liar ive ever seen he will go down in history as the person who destroyed the most poplular sport in the history

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No, that would be DeIdiot.

Goodell trying to help keep Vikings in Minny makes him BAD?