http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_25801155/bud-grant-2018-super-bowl-minnesota-i-hope
Posted on 05/20/2014 8:08:09 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
TLANTA – Minneapolis has been awarded the 2018 Super Bowl by NFL owners.
The owners rewarded the Vikings for arranging to build a new stadium on the site of the old Metrodome by choosing Minneapolis over New Orleans and Indianapolis.
The big game will be staged in the Twin Cities for the second time. It was there in 1992, when Washington beat Buffalo.
Minneapolis' new $1 billion stadium is scheduled to open in 2016.
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Yes but will Viking fans be able to attend the game? And I am not kidding....
http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_25801155/bud-grant-2018-super-bowl-minnesota-i-hope
If we can’t win one, we might as well host one;)
Not unless they’re corporate bigshots.
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True!!!!
Sorry we’re not American enough for you wonderful Texans.
Bud Grant turned 87 today.
And they’re usually built with taxpayer money.
From what I can find, this is the sixth game in Monday Night Football history. The sharpness in quality is impressive. Keith Jackson did PxP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-gm5h9pXo
“...we often wonder what it must be like to live above the Arctic Circle in a place like Green Bay, with its permafrost and 10-month winters, where the first snow starts falling in mid-August. ;-)”
Green Bay, Canada?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ic3xNfEP_o
Interesting how the Canadian guy in the YouTube video segued into a reference to Rocky & Bullwinkle, who hail from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota (which could be in Canada, but isn’t. Minnesota, that is.) ;-)
Bud’s still around!
God bless the old gentleman!
It was...and it was a total mess.
We just don’t have the equipment to keep up with an ice storm. Maybe Minneapolis does...but not Dallas.
Sigh...Oh Lord, It’s hard to be humble. ;)
No, real Viking fans will not be able to attend this Super Bowl.
The NFL controls ticket distribution for Super Bowls. They put a relatively small percentage out for public sale, or to be distributed by the host team. A few thousand locals may be able to buy tickets to the game. But not many. You won’t have 70,000 local Minnesotans there.
Frostbite Falls is probably close to International Falls which is very close to the border of Canada. Easy to get mixed up!
They're all claming how much money it's going to bring “the state”. As if people in Biwabik and Red Wing are somehow going to find themselves in the money-this is strictly pork for Minneapolis. Millionaire Dayton scratching the back of his billionaire pal Ziggy.
I went to a Vikings game. Once. At Met Stadium.
Who wants to watch a gay bowl? Not me. NFL is gone from my home.
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