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Or maybe play it where the old Municipal stadium stood. lol. When The Vikes played outdoors for all those great years. j.k.
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.
The old met center is an IKEA now I think.
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.
TCF Bank Stadium has a capacity to accommodate 50,805 spectators.
If true, then this is a fitting metaphor on that franchise as a whole.
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.
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.
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?