“It hasn’t collapsed on the morning of a game before, and this is the second to last season of their lease. “Good” timing for the Vikings’ owners. And you couldn’t just cut it off and call it ready to play, there’s a lot of important stadium parts (like the lights) attached to the roof. Not to mention that the field isn’t designed to deal with moisture”
I know it will never happen...just daydreaming about cutting the tarp off. I have designed two artificial turf fields in recent years - any field can be made to handle moisture with the FieldTurf system...they can sell the HVAC system for scrap to buy new lights :). Heck, probably savings on energy bills alone would pay for new lights. Walking out the revolving doors to that stadium are an experience - you are ‘blown out the door’....I can’t imagine the blowers needed to keep the roof inflated when a game gets out.
I know it will never happen - they get big money hosting NCAA tournaments there...but I can dream.
I’m anti-dome myself, but there is a lot to it. If they get a new stadium maybe it’ll be open, probably not though, once teams get hooked on the dome they tend to stay (except Seattle, which makes me respect them at least a little).