[OneVike]

The Vikings play in the Stadium 8, 10 times if they make the playoffs and get home field advantage, per year. Yet, the Dome has been an average of 330 days a year for non football venues over the last 29 years. Seems to me that when the Stadium and the Vikings are gone, the state of Minn will be losing billions of tax dollars in revenue over the years to come.

Also, the Vikings make the least amount of money off the stadium then every professional Football and Baseball team in America. However, the state of Minn and the city of Minneapolis make an average of 100 times the amount of money the Viking s made. It will be the states loss.

Why do you think the city of Cleveland cried until they built and got a new team? Wake up, stadiums are big tax revenue entities and job producers for every state and city that has them. Again, you loss will be LA's gain.

[DManA]

That is simply nonsense. People spend discretionary dollars to buy football tickets. They will spend those dollars on other of the plentiful entertainments available.

The Metrodome will still be there to host all the other things tha go on there 330 days a year.

[N3WBI3]

Sorry but I’ve only been in the metro for ten years (and I am a packers fan to boot) but I have to chime in here..

The state has a 6 billion dollar deficit no way can they be throwing around the kind of money the vikings want thrown around...

What should happen is a refit of the Metrodome for FB only similar to what the Bills did to Rich Stadium..

Add the boxes and nice things they want, maybe it drops the capacity slightly. Finally in the case of the Metrodome replace (or remove) the roof.

That stadium is in a great location and is sized well for football. Any talk about building a stadium outside of Minneapolis or Saint Paul (preferably near the down town core) needs to die, quickly!