All-Time Series

GB: leads 53-48-1 (MIN lead 1-0 in playoffs)

GB has won the last 4 games, so up to that point there was only 1 game separeting them in the Win – loss colume. The NFL wuld be dumb to allow them to move, and that is why the Love – Hate is so great between the Pack – Vikes fans.

* Out of more than 300 event days per year at the Metrodome, less than 100 feature professional or major college sports. The rest of the event days are used by high schools and colleges, concerts, community activities and other events.

* The Metrodome hosts boys’ and girls’ high schools from throughout Minnesota for athletic and other events and small college athletic competitions.

* More than half a million people have come to the Metrodome to see concerts by major performers such as Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Guns N’ Roses, Faith No More, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and The Grateful Dead.
HOWEVER, I THINK MOST OF THE CONCERTS ARE NOW HELD AT EXCEL ENERGY CENTER.

* The Metrodome is the only major facility in Minnesota big enough to host major motorsports events.

* The Metrodome draws more than 4,000 runners and 30,000 inline skaters per year. Co-ed volleyball and touch football leagues bring in 2,000 people per week to the Metrodome between October and February.

To everyone thinking that the legislators are “spineless”, its an election year. If they were raising taxes to fund _____, and you don’t think that’s a good use of taxpayer money, the TEA party factions + conservatives will find primary challengers for them. Should they really give a darn about the Vikings? What about children’s hospitals or new highway construction or Medicaid funding? This stadium is a “cherry on top” issue for a budget.

The NFL needs a lobbyist. You don’t force a vote just to force it. Legislators don’t react well to that. However, that may be what the NFL wants. They may not be such bad lobbyists after all. Maybe the die has been cast.

Tell the NFL to pounbd salt, let the vikings leave…after all, with the merry go round that the NFL is the vikings will be back around sooner than later.

Here in MA, the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium was built entirely with private money. The new Boston Garden, home of the Celtics and Bruins, was built entirely with private money. The only state contribution for these arenas was for infrastructure, widening of roads, traffic lights, a new public transportation station etc. Nothing else!!

That is how I think the stadiums should be built. Taxpayers should not be burdened to subsidize billionaires who want a new sports palace so they can expand their bottom line!

MSP still has the Wolves, Wild, Twins and Vikings. You’re dredging up really old news – I can actually see you going way out on a limb.

anyway, something something Jay Cutler.

Thanks for making all us Steelers fans look like complete douches. In all honesty, you’re probably just a Steeler hater out to ruin our reputation. No one in our fanbase is that douchey. Quit trolling.

Best of luck to the Vikings in their stadium push. There are too many good rivalries in the NFC North, I would hate to see them go away……

Hey! Gutless politicians! Bring it to the floor and vote! For or against. Quit trying to hide what you are doing. Come right out in public and say you are for or against. Your constituents deserve to know where you stand.

The wishful realignment ‘traditionalist’ scenario with the ‘LA Jags’ supposedly to save the Vikes for being relocated, dream on. I really don’t want the Vikes to move, but it’s the idiotic posters that keep bring up the mandatory ‘It should be Jacksonville that moves’ when every other team gets talked about for relocation, is what make me don’t even care anymore. Talk about the Jags moving til you’re blue in the face, it’s not gonna happen.

Steelers fan: Nobody cares what the steelers have done except steelers fans! I’m glad you have something to cling too. I’m sure it helps a loser like you to feel like a winner; especially when your mom is nagging at you all day to get a real job and move out.

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He’s not a Steelers fan. He’s a guy in his mom’s basement making fun of Steelers fans by posting this obnoxious garbage on everyone else’s threads. A real Steeler’s fan would know we had 40 years of history with 0 playoff wins … which is like the worst record in sports. What a fool.

Keeping my fingers crossed that you guys get your stadium!

the vikings are threatening moving the team to leverage their position so they can get a nice fat check. i can’t blame them, but Minnesota can’t fall for this BS. if you can’t say no to billionaires who ask for tax payer money, who can you say no to when your next budget deadline approaches and police, fire, teachers,etc are on the chopping block?

pay for it yourself, vikings. if you want people in MN to contribute, i’m sure some fans would gladly send in some cash/donations to help pay for some of it. go to the giant corporations and float bonds like normal businesses. because those are the only people that should be helping to finance this stadium.

The 400 million isn’t going in Zygi’s back pocket, it’s going directly to employee hundreds of construction works, plumbers, etc. And buy materials.

The facility is used by the Vikings for a dozen or so games at year at most, the rest of the time it’s being used by dozens of other organizations.

But by golly, we don’t buy Best Buy a store so why should we pay half the cost of a stadium! What a joke.

I’m not a Queens fan, dont watch them and have zero interest if they win a game or lose it.

That said, living up here Ive seen some of the most dedicated and fanatical fans of any NFL team follow and love their somewhat (recently) mediocre franchise. You dont just build a lifelong hate/history with the Packers, Bears and Lions by moving a team into a new location. Although I personally could care less, I truly hope for the sake of history, rivalries, long lived fans and a big FU to the megaopoly that NFL has become that the bonehead politico’s in Minneapolis-St. Paul find a way to make this happen.

My humble opinion

Alan