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Hopefully thats being funded by the city of Minneapolis tax payers cause I sure as hell dont want my tax dollars going to that waste. Should have just let the team move to LA.
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You try saying no to a horde of angry Vikings.
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A billion dollars for a Hockey Arena? Man.
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Hopefully thats being funded by the city of Minneapolis tax payers cause I sure as hell dont want my tax dollars going to that waste. Should have just let the team move to LA.
I wonder why you, a Packers fan apparently living in Minnesota, would not want your tax dollars going towards a new stadium for the Vikings, a football team that happens to not be the Packers.
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ikkoikki posted:
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Hopefully thats being funded by the city of Minneapolis tax payers cause I sure as hell dont want my tax dollars going to that waste. Should have just let the team move to LA.
I wonder why you, a Packers fan apparently living in Minnesota, would not want your tax dollars going towards a new stadium for the Vikings, a football team that happens to not be the Packers.
That's a good point actually. Cutt really does sound like a bandwagoner when putting down his team and loving on the Packers.
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ikkoikki posted:
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Hopefully thats being funded by the city of Minneapolis tax payers cause I sure as hell dont want my tax dollars going to that waste. Should have just let the team move to LA.
I wonder why you, a Packers fan apparently living in Minnesota, would not want your tax dollars going towards a new stadium for the Vikings, a football team that happens to not be the Packers.
Because its a billion dollars being used on a stadium for a football team that will play 10 times a year in it. There is no benefit to building a billion dollar stadium here, it wont pay for itself in jobs. I dont care if they are building a stadium for whomever if it is actually benefiting the state in some way, in this case the only benefit is to a small handful of fans who wants to have a new stadium, and a billionaire owner.
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If it's a dome, you might host a League Championship game (aka super bowl).
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Pretty sure they wanted a field with a retractable roof and then it was just an open air field. I am bummed they are building it outside of the city. What the hell are they going to do with the Dome now. 
OH SNAP. They are building downtown?
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If they are really lucky, they could get Ducky to skate in there!
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It really sucks they are building it downtown. Part of the reason I hate the dome now both when it was for baseball and for football. There is no where to park and it sucks getting in and out of downtown after games. The other site they had picked out would have been a better option.
From what I understand it will be a retractable roof.
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It really sucks they are building it downtown. Part of the reason I hate the dome now both when it was for baseball and for football. There is no where to park and it sucks getting in and out of downtown after games. The other site they had picked out would have been a better option.
From what I understand it will be a retractable roof.
Most new stadiums will be.
Open in the summer, closed in the winter.
Much like mud games, snow games will eventually be a thing of the past.
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Lambeau Field will never have a roof.
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Big problem with this stadium is that its not worth the billion dollars. For it to be worth that much it'd have to be a multi use stadium that actually gets use. Within 5 miles of that site there is, the less than 2 year old Twins stadium, the less than 2 year old Gophers football stadium, the Target center (Timberwoves), Mariccui Arena (Gophers hockey), The Barn (Gophers basketball) and the Minneapolis convention center. Go another couple miles and there is the Xcel energy center (Wild hockey).
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Big problem with this stadium is that its not worth the billion dollars. For it to be worth that much it'd have to be a multi use stadium that actually gets use. Within 5 miles of that site there is, the less than 2 year old Twins stadium, the less than 2 year old Gophers football stadium, the Target center (Timberwoves), Mariccui Arena (Gophers hockey), The Barn (Gophers basketball) and the Minneapolis convention center. Go another couple miles and there is the Xcel energy center (Wild hockey).
doesnt seem like Minnesota could support all those stadiums.
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Most of them are already paid for or an economic positive for the state/city. The Gophers football stadium didnt cost much in terms of tax dollars. The Twins stadium pretty much pays for itself, funded by a bar and hotel tax and since they play and sell out 82 games a year. There are economic positives to that stadium in terms of jobs and tax revenue. The Target Center is like 30 years old and already paid for. The Barn and Mooch are paid for by the U of MN and are also 30+ years old.
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And in 40 years, they might break even on that investment... =|
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Arden Hills was a much better site, too bad Ziggy wont just fork out the cash to make it happen. Now they will have a 2nd rate stadium to match the product they put on the field. Being a real estate guy you think he would realize Arden Hills was basically a license to print money.
Downtown is a joke.
Oh well at least I wont have to turn down free Viking tickets from work anymore, anything is better than the dome.
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Arden Hills was a much better site, too bad Ziggy wont just fork out the cash to make it happen. Now they will have a 2nd rate stadium to match the product they put on the field. Being a real estate guy you think he would realize Arden Hills was basically a license to print money.
Downtown is a joke.
Oh well at least I wont have to turn down free Viking tickets from work anymore, anything is better than the dome.
Yep, that was a prime location, used to live within spitting distance of the Arden Hills site. Thousands of acres of nothing, they could have made pretty much anything they wanted in there.
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If they are really lucky, they could get Ducky to skate in there!
Ha. I wish! Minnesota Rollergirls are an amazing team. They have a really beautiful facility (or two) that they get to play in. They are big time. I WISH I was that good 
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Arden Hills was a much better site, too bad Ziggy wont just fork out the cash to make it happen. Now they will have a 2nd rate stadium to match the product they put on the field. Being a real estate guy you think he would realize Arden Hills was basically a license to print money.
Downtown is a joke.
Oh well at least I wont have to turn down free Viking tickets from work anymore, anything is better than the dome.
Yep, that was a prime location, used to live within spitting distance of the Arden Hills site. Thousands of acres of nothing, they could have made pretty much anything they wanted in there.
Except what is out there? They'd have had to build a bar and stuff which would then limit people to going to that bar or store. Also they'd need to get some kind of public transportation. I don't know how much that would have cost to get Lightrail built out there.
If you don't like driving downtown then Park and Ride to the games. The Lightrail goes everywhere and you can park outside of the city and ride in easily.
My mom is going to be pissed cause she always calls me to find out if MN is playing a home game to figure out if she can go out on a Sunday or not. But I think that it has been shown that a downtown stadium is good for the business of other areas like nearby bars/etc. As well they wouldn't have gotten the funding if the city hadn't footed part of the bill.
Personally I am excited. I love going downtown for games, although it's probably because I can always walk home from them
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Except what is out there? They'd have had to build a bar and stuff which would then limit people to going to that bar or store. Also they'd need to get some kind of public transportation. I don't know how much that would have cost to get Lightrail built out there.
If you don't like driving downtown then Park and Ride to the games. The Lightrail goes everywhere and you can park outside of the city and ride in easily.
My mom is going to be pissed cause she always calls me to find out if MN is playing a home game to figure out if she can go out on a Sunday or not. But I think that it has been shown that a downtown stadium is good for the business of other areas like nearby bars/etc. As well they wouldn't have gotten the funding if the city hadn't footed part of the bill.
Personally I am excited. I love going downtown for games, although it's probably because I can always walk home from them
Thats the beauty of that site, there is nothing at all out there. Wilf could have built whatever he wanted and there are literally thousands of acres to play with.
Right now there are probably 4 park and rides within a mile of that facility (and there wouldnt really be a need for much public transportation because there are literally thousands of acres to build parking in.) Thats one of the crappiest things about downtown, there is nowhere to park, there is no tailgating, its a effing mess to get out of Minneapolis after a game. Light rail is going to be coming from Forrest Lake sometime down the road and would run right by there.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_uscBJn0p0
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I can pretty much guarantee that they wont be making the roof from any new one out of garbage bags.
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I can pretty much guarantee that they wont be making the roof from any new one out of garbage bags.
yeah, that probably wasn't a good idea
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Brandun posted:
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I can pretty much guarantee that they wont be making the roof from any new one out of garbage bags.
yeah, that probably wasn't a good idea
easy guys...dont forget it IS Minnesota!
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COOL!!!
Hope they go back to open air!
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we use ours for all sorts of games, kids and pro. so it gets a lot of use. maybe yall can start having championships games and what not in yours.
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Does the urinal trench slant downward toward Lambeau Field? 
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