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<blockquote data-quote="Packerlifer" data-source="post: 246001" data-attributes="member: 1242"><p>I look forward to the day the Vikings leave Minnesota. Probably for Los Angeles, maybe Toronto. I hate that Arena League stadium they have there in the Metrodome. Crowd noise? Sure, if you can contain 70,000 voices beneath a teflon top, place mikes and speakers close to the visiting team's bench, the lighting and background contrasts. It's about as rigged a home field as you can have. If the Vikings played outdoors on real grass, like they did in the old Metropolitan Stadium, they'd probably have lost half the games they won in the Hump vs. the Packers. The simple fact is this: The Vikings lease in the Metrodome expires in 2011, the NFL and Los Angeles want a franchise in the nation's second largest sports market, the Vikings currently rank last in the league in the revenue their stadium generates for them, the Wilfs and their ownership partners are equity rich but cash flow poor (they're managing only to make the interest payments on their purchase of the franchise), after more than a decade of discussions there's no progress on a new stadium for them in Minnesota; even as the baseball Twins and college Gophers have new stadia for themselves under construction. The Wilfs and their partners are out-state business people with no particular sentimental ties to Minnesota, if it comes down to a bottom line decision. If they moved the franchise, or sold it to someone else who would move it, its value and profitability would soar in LA compared to Minnesota. And LA has a history of getting its major sports franchises by relocation from other venues: the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, the Rams from Cleveland & the Raiders from Oakland in previious NFL periods, and there once was an NBA team known as the Minneapolis Lakers. The talk of a Vikings move is becoming more and more open as the time ticks down. Either Minnesota comes up with about $700 million to fund the lion's share of a new stadium or the Vikings only have about 30 games left in Minnesota.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Packerlifer, post: 246001, member: 1242"] I look forward to the day the Vikings leave Minnesota. Probably for Los Angeles, maybe Toronto. I hate that Arena League stadium they have there in the Metrodome. Crowd noise? Sure, if you can contain 70,000 voices beneath a teflon top, place mikes and speakers close to the visiting team's bench, the lighting and background contrasts. It's about as rigged a home field as you can have. If the Vikings played outdoors on real grass, like they did in the old Metropolitan Stadium, they'd probably have lost half the games they won in the Hump vs. the Packers. The simple fact is this: The Vikings lease in the Metrodome expires in 2011, the NFL and Los Angeles want a franchise in the nation's second largest sports market, the Vikings currently rank last in the league in the revenue their stadium generates for them, the Wilfs and their ownership partners are equity rich but cash flow poor (they're managing only to make the interest payments on their purchase of the franchise), after more than a decade of discussions there's no progress on a new stadium for them in Minnesota; even as the baseball Twins and college Gophers have new stadia for themselves under construction. The Wilfs and their partners are out-state business people with no particular sentimental ties to Minnesota, if it comes down to a bottom line decision. If they moved the franchise, or sold it to someone else who would move it, its value and profitability would soar in LA compared to Minnesota. And LA has a history of getting its major sports franchises by relocation from other venues: the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, the Rams from Cleveland & the Raiders from Oakland in previious NFL periods, and there once was an NBA team known as the Minneapolis Lakers. The talk of a Vikings move is becoming more and more open as the time ticks down. Either Minnesota comes up with about $700 million to fund the lion's share of a new stadium or the Vikings only have about 30 games left in Minnesota. [/QUOTE]
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