The Mythical MSFC Stadium

but I’ve written two letters to Pawlenty himself concerning the issue. My family owns three season tickets and between myself and my two brothers, we have spent several thousand dollars in the state.

No doubt there are others like me and it brings in millions of dollars to the Minnesota economy.

If the Vikings leave, that’s going to be a lot of lost business and tax revenue from out of state visitors for Minnesota. I hope they recognize that fact.

Okay, I could call on Michael McDonald to sing “Taking it to the Streets” or “What a Fool Believes,” but I’ll drag a dead guy to the stand instead. (People like Stephen King and Grisham. This could be like Reese’s cups, if you are optimistic.)

There is no “what should be,” there is only what is." – Lenny Bruce

I want to testify too.

“Not everyone who smiles is your friend; not everyone who says things you dislike is your enemy.” – Elgar

(There is nothing insincere about the third person. Other people make their decisions out there all the time.)

Who cares about my erudition or even brains? Queue ad hominem fallacy. Even the blind bird gets its worms. Seymour Cray learned the vulnerability of brains when his were impacted as the roof of his Cherokee repeatedly hit the pavement, due to the actions of a fool named Dave who inadvertently killed him using that other car which Dave failed to observe approaching from behind in his rush blow the doors off Cray as he entered the expressway near Colorado Springs. The driver of the third car to which Dave was oblivious was forced to decide whether he wanted his family to die after he had swerved off the road to avoid Dave, since the median strip ends at the overpass ahead. He chose to get back on the road, unfortunately clipping Cray and rolling his vehicle. Choices are often determined by what we have to lose. Dave is alive. Seymour is not. Bad things do happen.

Zygi and Ed are businessmen. They are going to make decisions from their point of view, not yours or mine or those of people who foolishly think they will never help a billionare. Ed is laughing all the way to the bank. He doesn’t need the low hanging fruit. The best grapes make the best wine. This is California calling. Is anyone there? Which team would you go to see from LA, the Vikings or the Rams or the Jaguars? Do you miss Troy Williamson? Well do you, punk? How many shots did I fire (or drink)?

Okay, so I’m insane. Like my first wife who had schizophrenia once correctly observed, “Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.”

The audacity of hope is a wonderful thing, but the problem here is that few are answering the wake-up call about the Vikings.

(By the way, the correct spelling is Guvernator, with a “u”. Californian’s know things from which you all may profit. Recycle the rest.)

Ed is not going to tell you which team he is really after. That’s like telling the used car salesman which car you really, really want.

You are spot on about why Ed is after football. There’s money to be made or lost.

Hit the naysayers about the impact of the economic loss of the Vikings hard: If someone is addicted to football, why won’t he or she go to Lambeau to spend his or her money rather than the Guthrie after the Vikings leave? (Would the theater crowd pack the Metrodome if the Guthrie closed?) It’s football firing football fans up, not the money burning a hole in their pockets. The people from the Dakota’s don’t come to the Cities because the water from 10,000 lakes is better. Cheese Free doesn’t come from Winnepeg every game day to see the spoon with the cherry or the Mary Richard’s statue tossing its hat around. There are no Soviet troops at the St. Croix to prevent the exodus from Minnesota. Give me Hudson or give me death! People can move. (I did.) Remenber, financial experts with ex-rocket scientists doing the math caused this recession.

The people of Cleveland in 1995 did not lack hope. They hoped the problem would go away. (Unfortunately, the team left instead.) They lacked fear. Green Bay is your Pittsburgh. I’ve seen the original movie in real life. I was born in northeast Ohio. This is another remake.

Yes, the state senators and representatives should be afraid of you. They are not. While I was a Minnesota, I wrote, called, and wanted to get more personal saliva on mine, all to no avail. Minnesota is full of people much like Dave who don’t know where the hell they are going.

You need to be scared as hell, so the legislators will be too.

Ask an old Browns fan about how things were. They saw the “Ravens” win the Super Bowl. (They saw Ahmad Rashad catch the hail Mary in 1980, too.) Optimism is not all it is cracked up to be. Civil demonstations work better,

Reprise: "There is no “what should be,” there is only what is." – Lenny Bruce

and second. It IS what he wants…. the dark lord of the NFL…

In the Land of Hollyweird where the Roski’s lie.
One Stadium to rule them all, One Team to find them,
One Team to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

though I could be wrong, is that the Jags could escape their lease if they went 3 complete seasons without a sellout. Well, lastnights game apperently reset that clock as they sold out their first home game this season at 67,000 and some change. Kinda pathetic when the college games there sellout in no time. Anyways, a new owner would have to buy out to move. But with the lack of support in Jax, that wouldnt be a problem. Also, the owners family wants nothing to do with the team and no local investors have stepped forward there so looking more and more like the Jags would be the best bet for relocation. While the present owner there said he wouldnt move them, he might get to a point with no family or fan support that he has no choice but to sell now to anyone and Roski has been licking his chops at the Jags for awhile.

That mirrors the situation in Buffalo to an extent with Wilson not giving a crap about the city that’s supported his team since the founding of the AFL. He has publicly stated his team is up for grabs, to anyone, anywhere. But with a few games in Toronto, who knows, might get a few investors locally who will pick up the team and keep the Buffalo/Toronto games going

The Rams could make a return to their second home in L.A. as well as the team has what it consideres an unfavorable lease and could be able to escape it fairly cheaply and easily at the moment.

Right now, those are the 3 teams L.A. appears to be zeroing in on. Contrary to Mr. Negativity above, the Vikings name has not come up in talks in quite sometime and Wilf appears to be trying to concentrate at home even with the MSFC bungling things as much as they can. While not out of the woods, this does give me some better feelings on the situation.

As I see it, you could very well have the Jags in L.A. with a possible Rams team there too by the start of next season. I would give the Jags a definate by the start of 2011. 50/50 with the Rams going back and the Bills, 30/70