Why It’s Fourth-and-Goal for Vikings Fans

Published on: 7th May, 2010

In case you’ve been living under a rock this past week, the Vikings stadium situation took a dire turn for the worst this week. After a bipartisan group of Minnesota state legislators worked together to come up with a stadium financing plan that would rely almost exclusively on user-based taxes to ...

Minnesota Vikings and the State Legislature Release the “Purple Plan”

Published on: 3rd May, 2010

The Vikings organization, along with the Minnesota legislature, released the details of its new plan to pay for a new $791 million fixed-roof facility today.   The city where the stadium would be built has yet to be determined. With just a few weeks remaining in the legislative session, time is running out ...

Why It’s Now Or Never for a Vikings Stadium

Published on: 1st May, 2010

Rewind to January of this year. The press and politicians thought we were crazy to start a stadium movement to keep the Vikings in Minnesota . Talk of state deficits dominated conversations and the advocates put in charge of protecting professional sports in Minnesota (Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission ) themselves ...