SPECIAL EDITION: MLS In Minneapolis
du Nord, December 18, 2009
Today there has been lots of scuttlebutt concerning MLS coming to the Twin Cities and sharing a new stadium with the Minnesota Vikings. The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a story today.dNI live in Minneapolis, so let me shed some light on this story:The owner of the Vikings is a liar. How’s that for a start.Then we can go right to this: the stadium they are talking about in the article is one that the Vikings are on record as saying they have no interest in.This stadium would be owned by the Metropolitan Sports Commission who would rent it out to the Vikings for 10+ games per year, and then the Commission would make money on everything else, just like they do now at the Metrodome (which is rented out nearly every single day of the year.)Of course what the Vikings want is for the city, county, state to build them a stadium and then hand it over so the Vikings will make every penny on use above and beyond football games; naming rights, in-stadium advertising, parking, sky boxes, merch, food, beer etc etcIn their