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Minneapolis awarded 2018 Super Bowl
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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: mpls; nfl
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Minneapolis' new $1 billion stadium is scheduled to open in 2016.
To: TurboZamboni
and there is much wailing in New Orleans as I speak.
Good for Minneapolis.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:09:32 PM PDT
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: TurboZamboni
To: TurboZamboni
At least we are assured that home field advantage is unlikely to be an issue.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:10:10 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(Be seeing you...)
To: TurboZamboni
They don’t hold it in America any more?
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:11:26 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: TurboZamboni
I thought they were through with cold-weather Superbowls?
To: TurboZamboni
We will never make it to a superbowl so we might as well host one.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:15:26 PM PDT
by
cableguymn
(It's time for a second political party.)
To: cdcdawg
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:15:52 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: cdcdawg
Yup, nice to see the Vikes will be connected to the Super Bowl (in a way).
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:16:24 PM PDT
by
daler
To: nickcarraway
it’s indoors.
if you like your nose, you can keep it.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:16:35 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: nickcarraway
They’ll hold it in a cold-weather city if the stadium has a retractable or closed roof. The 2014 Super Bowl, in East Rutherford, NJ, was apparently a waiver of the 50 degree average rule.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:16:48 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: TurboZamboni
Vikings went to four Super Bowls while they played at The Met.
None ever since they moved indoors...Coincidence? I think not.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:18:10 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Shadowstrike
Anyone who builds a new stadium gets one.
It’s legal extortion.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:18:21 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Milton Miteybad
Which means Green Bay will never get one.
Plus they don’t have enough hotels.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:19:15 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: TurboZamboni
Guess LA will get it when the Sams move back to LA from St Louis.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:19:20 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: TurboZamboni
The first Halal Super Bowl?
To: TurboZamboni
Probably right on both counts. But they might get to play in one. And as brutal as the winters can be in Green Bay, I imagine many of the Packer faithful would welcome a road trip to a warmer part of the country for a few days.
Down here in Texas, 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. ;-)
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:28:03 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: TurboZamboni
At least unlike this past Super Bowl, there won’t be a threat of inclement weather turning the game into a potential fiasco, since the stadium itself and much of the area surrounding the stadium are all covered and climate controlled. And the host committee—learning from the very successful Super Bowl at Indianapolis—will try to keep all activities as close to the stadium as possible to minimize weather effects on Super Bowl-related activities during Super Bowl Week.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:40:10 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: nickcarraway
Super Bowl in Dallas was during an ice storm.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:45:09 PM PDT
by
Jedidah
To: Shadowstrike
It’s the only way Viking fans will ever see a Super Bowl.
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posted on
05/20/2014 8:46:12 PM PDT
by
Kozak
("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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