'Significant announcement 'coming today
From Paul Walsh at the Trib: the Vikings are going to make a "significant business announcement" later today. Is it something big like stadium news, or is it something boring like a new sponsor? If it's the latter, is Comcast slowly taking over the world with all their new sponsorship deals?
Stay tuned folks. Meanwhile, let your speculation run rampant in the comments!
UPDATE 12:30 PM: Turns out it was the Mall of America buying naming rights to the Metrodome's field for the next three years. Yawn.
"The Mall Of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome". Just rolls right off the tongue, no?
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Intrigue...
Let the speculation begin!
I’m going with ‘Stadium Related’
I BELIEVE...
by ArizonaVikingsFan on Oct 1, 2009 11:42 AM CDT reply actions
Aw Jeez.
If you give a man a match he will be warm for a moment. Set him alight
and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
by Mr. Underfoot on Oct 1, 2009 6:34 PM CDT up reply actions
No wonder they got rid of...
Kory Lichtensteiger
They’ve run out of letters.
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by ArizonaVikingsFan on Oct 1, 2009 12:12 PM CDT reply actions
"Next Three Years"?
The Mall of America realizes a three-year lease on naming rights to the Metrodome fields may well mean a year of Mall of America Field @ the HHH being used for nothing more substantial than monster truck shows and real estate sales conventions, right?
by Midnight Rambler on Oct 1, 2009 12:49 PM CDT reply actions
You Heard Right, Mister
The financial sword of Damocles still hangs over us as big as that new TV set in Dallas.
You got that right.
If a new stadium deal doesn’t come together in the next two years the Vikings are history in MN and the NFL won’t do one thing about it.
by VikingBillArlingtonVA on Oct 2, 2009 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions
dunno...
Wilf has said he wants the Vikings in MN… let’s assume he is telling the truth.
The Metrodome is OWNED by (the people of MN) and cannot support an NFL franchise in it’s current condition.
If the Metrodome is to be renovated to support an NFL team then a majority of that funding needs to come from (the people of MN), as the owners. If (the poeple of MN) are unwilling to fund that renovation, then I see Wilf and Company seeking an alternate location to host the VIKINGS.
The announcement of the partnership with MOA makes me think that Wilf will work to build a new stadium there and shut out the State from any revenue AND leave (the people of MN) with an ‘empty’ Metrodome.
I BELIEVE...
by ArizonaVikingsFan on Oct 2, 2009 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions
How about...
selling the naming rights to a name brand befitting the Metrodome?
How about “Satellite Stadium”, I think it’s got a nice ring to it.
The State needs to get it in gear. The Vikings must not go the way of the North Stars and Lakers.
Throwing things at the television since Sunday, December 28, 1975.
and not getting a new stadium
would be the Mother Of All Failures.
If you can't laugh at yourself... Who can you laugh at?
The Packers, that’s who.
-- The almighty Manimal
Taking Care of Business
Count your blessings.
(Things could be much worse, and the Vikings really need the money.)
How would “the 3M Field at the 3H Metrodome” have sounded in the pre-game warm ups?
Or “Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Park in the Field where Triple-H Used to Be”?
Mall of America, roll up the score!
Shop at the Vikings’ store!
M-O-N-E-Y, ho, ho!
Skol, Vikings let’s go!
the mall of americas
haha good one! Wait til the stores sponsor everything like herbergers hot dogs
Ironic
Can’t resist noting that you are saying “yawn” to a sponshorship deal, just two posts after trumpetting your own (this site’s) sponshorship by comcast as “big news.”
Sorry, has to be said.
Heyyy
The Daily Norseman brought to you by Comcast Red Zone Channel takes offense to you putting the Mall Of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in a bad light. This bad light brought to you by GE.
by Eric J. Thompson on Oct 2, 2009 10:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Shouldn't the field be sponsored by...
Toro!?
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by ArizonaVikingsFan on Oct 2, 2009 11:12 AM CDT reply actions
hmm...
Considering it doesn’t need to be mowed I think Toro might be better off to spend their money endorsing a REAL stadium outdoors!
How about Herbert Hoover?
Or maybe the 4H club. Or both. We can never have too many h’s.
by Migrant lurker on Oct 2, 2009 3:15 PM CDT up reply actions
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