Another Reason why our stadium drive is Getting Little Support!

by UnBannedVikingholic on Nov 22, 2009 9:13 AM CST

I've copied comments from different Minnesotans from around the web on the Vikings stadium! Please don't shout at the computer it's not your computers fault!

Well hell after reading this bull twice, you can do whatever you like!

Call for the PITCHFORKS!

United FootballLeague

Saint Paul, MN

Yes there are alternatives to the NFL! I just watched a great game Thursday night and the UFL will develop into a legitimate football league! What ever happens just happens, and the Vikings doesn't effect me much anywho!

PGF

Saint Paul, MN

Football owners have money, and get into the game to make more money. Why give them a hand out? If they want a stadium, let them build one themselves.

tww

Saint Paul, MN

I have to pay more taxes so Ziggy can make more millions? No thanks.

Dam Demthuglicrat

Burnsville, MN

Want a new stadium? Pay for it yourselves, leave the rest of us out of it.

Dam Demthuglicrat(AGAIN)

Burnsville, MN

No need. We got along just fine before the 'Queens came here and we'll do even better when they leave because we won't be another $100 billion plus in debt building a stadium to help a billionaire get even richer.

Dam Demthuglicrat(AND AGAIN)

Burnsville, MN

We're not helping them finance it. We'll pay for it just like we did the Metrodome (via a tax we're still and always will be paying) and are for the Twins stadium and the new Gopher stadium. Any paltry amount Wilf might contribute he'll get right back as a tax write off. Oh, and if Coleman over in St. Paul gets his way, we'll be paying for a new Saints stadium too. How many other states have built 4 new stadium within the span of a few years? You stadium homers just don't know when to stop.

Clueless

Saint Paul, MN

Don't read more into that than there was. I am not a fan
of the stadium nor do I want it built. I simply challenge
Mindy Grieling telling ANYONE what they can or cannot debate
when it comes to public policy. And I'm pretty sure she was
on board with the billions we spend on light rail. Leave
the rest of us out of that, too.

Just stop the spending!!

Farmboy

Litchfield, MN

It's amazing how the wealthy are the biggest whiners and want to blackmail the state into giving them a new playground while they run off with all the money. Where are you free enterprise righties, no government involvement. Oh yeah, when you get free stadiums, tax breaks, and can legally bribe politicians (free speech?), you have no problem with government involvement. Wake up people, these morons haven't been paying rent for 10 years and they talk like no one in this state is suffering but only them. It's really pathetic the Vikings "outrage". Get a real life. We can still follow the Vikings where ever they go. I had no problem while I was serving my country.

AND TWO Comments WE SHOULD ALL AGREE WITH:

Kunza

Perham, MN

If you're on a newspaper sight COMPLAINING about football in Minnesota and COMPLAINING about a stadium being built in Minnesota, then I think you have to rank right up there with dog crap.

If you don't care, why the heck are you reading sports pages about the Vikings and taking the time to post about how precious your damn money is to you and how you do don't want to pay taxes. I don't hunt but I support the DNR. I don't care about the fine arts but my tax dollars go the the Guthrie theater. Face it, we all pay taxes for things that make our quality of life better, even if we don't benefit from it. To say all these negative things truly shows your true IQ. The new stadium wouldn't be a tax like a school referendum, you dillweeds! If you don't want to pay a hotel tax of $5 when you stay in Minneapolis, stay out in Eden Prairie and spend the $5 to drive your idiotic automobile into the city. Boy people are stupid.

rtpSPAL

“SPAL; sports pal”

I'd like Powers, Sansevere and Walters to explain why they freely villainize Childress but let an incompetent manager like Roy Terwilliger screw with the Vikings.

Why is Terwilliger and the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission untouchable?

If Minnesota can't make a decision to build a Vikings stadium during 2009 then sign ownership of the dome over to the Minnesota Vikings.

HE JUST TOTALLY CRUSHED EVERYONE WITH THAT!

Well obviously it's not only the legislature that is BIT**ing about spending money, it's people who currently live in Minnesota as well. This is plain out ridiculous and wrong.

WELL if you can, try your hardest to push for a new stadium or else. What you mean or else? Well or else we want be cheering on the Beloved Minnesota Vikings after the stadium lease is over and done!

LETS GET THIS STADIUM BUILT ITS BEAUTIFUL TO THE EYES OF MANY!

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That's a beautiful stadium.

But I can already hear the “No new taxes” and “No welfare for millionaires” crowd already.

"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Nov 22, 2009 10:21 AM CST reply actions

If the Vikes leave

There is literally nothing of interest for me in MN.

by Jepp The Viking on Nov 22, 2009 10:59 AM CST reply actions

These were the same people who were saying the same thing about the Twins and Gopher stadiums. These people are always loud and vocal. Hence why the Vikings backers, who far out weight them should be louder. And some of those supposed anti stadium statements in what was said, such as “the Queens”, makes me wonder how valid their statement even is as that tells me they are fans of another team so of course they wouldn’t care. However, I would bet that if these people worked downtown near the Dome and depended on the Sunday games for part of their paycheck or overtime, how different their tune would be.

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by VikesFaninNM on Nov 22, 2009 11:06 AM CST reply actions

Damn Demthuglicrat

Anybody who calls our team the Queens can’t be a Vikings fan. This guy is obviously some disgruntled Bear or Packers dope who would love to see the team leave so it would be easier for the wannabes to win the division.

by purplegrey on Nov 22, 2009 5:53 PM CST reply actions

Question

While I heard this as a rumor, where there any fans in the stands with signs about building a new stadium? Heard on here in another post and on the web that there was a campaign to have people bring them in in support. Just wondering if it was true and if there were people doing this

by VikesFaninNM on Nov 22, 2009 6:43 PM CST reply actions

I hope the Vikes stay in MN

…but seriously, how did the Wilfs pass on a shared Gopher-Vikings stadium?!? That made so much more sense, and, unfortunately, I see a trend much like the one that Georgia Frontiere used to move her Rams out of LA and into StL.

Another problem: the roof may as well be permanent. Why pay the extra required for a retractable roof when it’s only going to be open for 1-3 games at most? That can’t help the current design’s popularity with taxpayers. Beer sales would be higher with a roof, too.

by KC Viking on Nov 22, 2009 10:00 PM CST reply actions