Metrodome collapsed

[fair catch fryar]

If true, then this is a fitting metaphor on that franchise as a whole.

 

[Pewsterbaby]

Here's a interesting footnote in Patriots history which is along these lines.
In 1989, when the San Francisco earthquake happened during The Giants-A's World Series game in Candlestick, The Patriots were slated to play The 49ers there in the next few days.
The game was moved to Stanford's football stadium.
Who won? Well, Montana & The Niners, naturally. It WAS the 1989 Pats, after all. The first of their 5 year lame period. They were good 1976-1988. 11 winning records, one .500 season, and only 1 losing one during that stretch.

Anyway, I betcha they'll play this game at University of Minn. stadium, like they moved The Pats game to the closest college site.
Or maybe play it where the old Municipal stadium stood. lol. When The Vikes played outdoors for all those great years. j.k.

 

[Haley]

My parents (Minnesota residents) were speculating this morning that this might be used either to get a new stadium for the Vikes or ...to move them to LA.

 

[convertedpatsfan]

Anything to keep Favres streak going!!

Favre's ego was too much for the dome's structure to handle.

Glad no one was hurt though.

 

[Haley]

Or maybe play it where the old Municipal stadium stood. lol. When The Vikes played outdoors for all those great years. j.k.

The old met center is an IKEA now I think.

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

True on all points but how does gate receipts compare to television revenue, especially if as someone wrote, you get a first ever Tuesday night game?? You could sell that TV ad space and possibly recoup the lost gate receipts. My concern is how do you get the teams there and when do you play????
If you move the game, which you have to, the issue becomes either getting the Giants in ( if U of M or another Minnesota local) or getting the Vikings out....

Based on the long standing rule that if you don't sell out a stadium they don't air the game locally, I am guessing gate receipts are more important than TV revenue.

As for getting teams there there. I am assuming chartered commercial airplanes. That seems to be the mode most commonly used for transporting professional football teams around the country.

If you play in Minn you have the problem of mapping seats from one venue to another. If you play in NYC you refund the tickets in Minn and sell anew. Same deal with playing in Chicago the following week.

Either play MNF. Would not be impossible to get both teams to NYC for Monday night, if the decision was made by noon today. Or play Tuesday night. I am sure any regular network would be willing to take it and if not I am sure whatever NFLN has planned can be preempted.

Viking have MNF next week, so playing Tuesday would just be a one day shortened week. Giants would have it a bit rough but no worse than playing Sunday then Thursday.

 

[Tunescribe]

This is an excellent argument AGAINST indoor football. The Vikings should never have built a dome, it ruined what probably was the best home-field advantage in the NFL.

 

[Gwedd]

Based on the long standing rule that if you don't sell out a stadium they don't air the game locally, I am guessing gate receipts are more important than TV revenue.

As for getting teams there there. I am assuming chartered commercial airplanes. That seems to be the mode most commonly used for transporting professional football teams around the country.

If you play in Minn you have the problem of mapping seats from one venue to another. If you play in NYC you refund the tickets in Minn and sell anew. Same deal with playing in Chicago the following week.

Either play MNF. Would not be impossible to get both teams to NYC for Monday night, if the decision was made by noon today. Or play Tuesday night. I am sure any regular network would be willing to take it and if not I am sure whatever NFLN has planned can be preempted.

Viking have MNF next week, so playing Tuesday would just be a one day shortened week. Giants would have it a bit rough but no worse than playing Sunday then Thursday.

Have to agree. This would seem to be the best solution if you want to keep the status quo. Otherwise, it's moving to the nearest college stadium. Same thing, though, you refund the tickets and let folks purchase anew, using the college seating chart. The TV team would already be in place, so not to big a deal for them to switch over.

 

[lurker1965]

The old met center is an IKEA now I think.

Adrian Petersen running down the seam in the Giants defense, aka isle 7.

 

[Uncle Rico]

This is an excellent argument AGAINST indoor football. The Vikings should never have built a dome, it ruined what probably was the best home-field advantage in the NFL.

Does anyone now why Minneapolis built a dome, in which football games would be played in December, that couldn't withstand 18 inches of snow?

 

[Haley]

Here is the U of MN TCF Stadium:

TCF Bank Stadium: About the Stadium: Quick Facts

TCF Bank Stadium has a capacity to accommodate 50,805 spectators.

I believe the Metrodome is around 55k so its really not much smaller. Strange, I really thought it was.

 

[Froob]

I hope everyone is okay, maybe now the vikings will go back to being an outdoor team. They're punishment for building a dome will cost them one home game .

 

[MoLewisrocks]

If true, then this is a fitting metaphor on that franchise as a whole.

No kidding....as well as a metaphor on Favre led teams for the last decade or so...not to mention on any team deciding to roll the stretching defenses dice as this season unfolded...

Maybe Zigi engineered this after all these years withstanding epic snowfalls in Minny as part of his build me a new damn stadium plan. It's not like he had a team otherwise making a sound case for Minnesotans to do that.

 

[patchick]

When I was a young kid, I had a scary dream one night that my family was driving along 91 through Hartford in the dark...I looked out the window, and the roof of a big domed building had collapsed, leaving it concave. 2 days later, the Hartford Coliseum roof collapsed.

OK, that wasn't really so relevant. Just wanted to share my creepy psychic childhood.

As for the Vikings -- my first thought was that this pretty much punches their ticket to Los Angeles. What a disastrous year for a good fan base that expected a lot from this season.

 

[Nikolai]

When I was a young kid, I had a scary dream one night that my family was driving along 91 through Hartford in the dark...I looked out the window, and the roof of a big domed building had collapsed, leaving it concave. 2 days later, the Hartford Coliseum roof collapsed.

I was just going to wonder if the same people who built the Civic Center dome built this one.

TNF, here we come.

 

[Pats fan in Vikes land]

TCF Bank Stadium is probably a mile or so from the Metrodome. Many of my MN brethren are clamoring for this to happen-- nobody here likes indoor football, the recent opening of Target Field (MN Twins) has been vindication for the growing swell of anti-Metrodome folks.

Also, the heat has been turned up in a huge way on the state legislature here on a new stadium because after next season, the Vikes lease on the dome is up and there's increaseing speculation that Zygi Wilf wouldn't mind moving the team to LA if a deal can't get done here. The dome's collapse can't hurt Zygi's cause.

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

Two challenges with U of Minn. Neither insurmountable.

1. Giants need to send the equipment manager back to NJ, pack up the outdoor gear and bring it to Minn. If a decision was made midday today for a MNF game that would be doable.

2. The outdoor stadium needs to be cleared of snow. Which the University may or may not have the equipment for and the Viking certainly would not have.

 

[TX_Patriot]

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Sources say a loud clap of thunder was heard right after the dome collapsed. Speculation is that God was snapping his fingers as he realized he missed Favre again.

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Glad no one was hurt.

 

[Pewsterbaby]

When I was a young kid, I had a scary dream one night that my family was driving along 91 through Hartford in the dark...I looked out the window, and the roof of a big domed building had collapsed, leaving it concave. 2 days later, the Hartford Coliseum roof collapsed.

OK, that wasn't really so relevant. Just wanted to share my creepy psychic childhood.

As for the Vikings -- my first thought was that this pretty much punches their ticket to Los Angeles. What a disastrous year for a good fan base that expected a lot from this season.

That's a GREAT link. I'd been to it one or twice before when I'd get bored surfing online. I'd be thinking to myself,"Hmm... wat stuff would be cool to look up? Oh, I know. I wonder if any stuff is around about when The Hartford Cvic Center's roof collapsed when I was a kid." It was like in 1975 or something. Yeah, back when The Whalers used to exist and weren't The Carolina Hurricanes. They had Gordie Howe back then. After the collapse, they rebuilt the place really nice and added a cool mall to it. In the gift shop, they'd sell souvenirs of the collapse. It was a white plastic construction helmet with the Whalers logo on each side. lol.

 

[fair catch fryar]

Does anyone now why Minneapolis built a dome, in which football games would be played in December, that couldn't withstand 18 inches of snow?

Now that I think of it, wasn't there a major bridge that collapsed a few years back near the Minneapolis-St. Paul area? That's some creepy sh!t, and would make me think 2x before I went to the Mall of America any time soon.