Metrodome Roof Springs Another Leak
by Christopher Gates on Dec 15, 2010 8:42 PM CST
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PrintJust in case the message hadn't become clear at this point, nobody is using the Metrodome for anything again any time soon.
According to NBC Sports, a fourth panel of the Metrodome roof has failed, dumping more snow and ice down onto the playing surface. The rip occurred at around 5:30 PM.
All of the workers have been removed from the Dome, and the damage will be assessed on Thursday.
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Wow.
I wonder if they’ll even repair the thing or just wait to see what happens with the stadium bill.
Die, Metrodome, die
Die a painful, agonizing, fun sucking death.
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Screw it
Just rip off the entire roof and play outdoors in the Metrodome. Problem solved.
They'd have to redo the whole inside
Better to raze it to the ground and start over.
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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 15, 2010 9:39 PM CST up reply actions
fats
totally agree-we now have a retractable roof
by toivo2feathers on Dec 17, 2010 12:45 PM CST up reply actions
skip the repair bill, and put that toward a new stadium
by medicineball on Dec 15, 2010 9:42 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Wow
Even by this time I would have shot the rust bucket ’74 Mercury Comet I was stuck with when I got my drivers license in Minnesota as a kid. That sprung a leak finally and I made sure that piece of crap never ran again. S.O.B. car went over a puddle in late winter and the water blew thru the floor boards that finally gave out. Talk about a cold wet drive home from Centennial High School.
Time to find some C-4, Nitro and whatever high yield explosives that can be found and level the biotch. She’s done, she over. She’s spent her wad, been ridden hard and now needs to be put away. Preferably 6 feet under.
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I had that happen to me in my friends 79 Celica...
I was the passenger who got soaked! Luckily it was in the spring tho…
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 15, 2010 11:45 PM CST up reply actions
This Dome is really collapsing!
This plane is definitely crashing!
This boat obviously sinking!
This building is totally burning down!
And my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my and my heart has slowly dried up!
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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 15, 2010 10:01 PM CST reply actions
Modest Mouse...nice!
Took forever for that album to show up in the Zune Marketplace, but it was worth the wait.
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by Christopher Gates on Dec 15, 2010 10:49 PM CST up reply actions
Hope TCF works well on Monday
They would have all summer to make the necessary upgrades for next season ( if there is one ), and they can take a wrecking ball to the dome and start over right away. Here’s to playing in the new stadium in 2012! Pass the stadium bill already!
Put it up for a vote and I'm on board
Don’t ram it through without any voter input like Hennepin County did with Target Field.
Yes they do
Arrowhead in KC was built and renovated due to a referendum on the ballot. Also LP Field where the Titans play and Raymond James in Tampa did it that way too. So it can be done.
Is it me
or this very eerily like the Kingdome? So far, we’ve been lucky. No one has been hurt, but have you guy’s seen the pic’s of some of the seat’s on the upper deck? Some are torn apart. Imagine if the Dome didn’t fail during the storm, only after and was filled on game day. Not only would people have been killed and injured from the ice and snow hitting the seat’s, but players on the field. Imagine the stampede out of there. Don’t tell me people would not have been trampled to death. But is someone going to have to get hurt or worse for the politicians to get this done? Sadly, took that in Seattle.
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
They spent $51 million repairing the Kingdome’s roof, and two workers died in the process. Then they imploded the Kingdome a few years later. (Wikipedia)
by medicineball on Dec 15, 2010 11:46 PM CST up reply actions
Yep
While some could say a waste of money, in actuality, it was a needless waste of two lives. This could have made the I35 bridge look like a walk in the park if my scenario had happened.
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 16, 2010 12:01 AM CST up reply actions
Funny I was thinking the same thing when it first happened...
If this doesn’t get the politicians moving, they are bigger ID Ten Tangos then I thought they were. The dome is obviously a big piece of stinky dog turd. If they do not act in someway when the new session starts… well, WHERE ARE THEY GONNA PLAY NEXT YEAR?!?!
ARGH!!!
With his best Forrest Gump impression, “That is all I have to say about that..”
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 15, 2010 11:50 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah I was in Seattle when that happened
The Kingdome actually makes the triple H look awesome though. That place was just terrible.
It's a lot easier to love the Vikings when they win...
i'm tired of the negative bout this
every sports show seems to harp on this to try to talk into existance them moving to LA……..like the vikings are the ONLY team that has/had a dome like this with a somewhat crappy roof (the silverdome was the EXACT same stadium design, detroit just managed to get theirs replaced with ford field back in 2001).
I, personally, hope they get funding for a new stadium in the Minneapolis area and make it a retractable roof stadium…….and NOT downtown!! there are two things that you cant do smack in the middle of the city………a) tailgate greatly and b) park easily.
~ceehow
as a Vikes fan in the OC, I would love the Vikings to come to socal
last time I saw them play was when they came down to ply the rams in the early 90s. if they came to LA I would instantly buy season tix regardless of the price
go long with extenze...i do
by angelsownredsux on Dec 16, 2010 4:36 AM CST up reply actions
Imagine the attraction...
…if they put it down by the MOA. It’s right next to the airport, have a huge shopping destination, and there are countless hotels and other various destinations around there.
are any pols willing to stick there necks out
with the economy where its at, and the backlash against govt funding, are there any politicians willing to back the spending required. Or should a private group take charge, and probably get a better venue built faster w/o have to please special interest groups pulling in opposite directions??
by Farveuless Pack on Dec 16, 2010 9:56 AM CST up reply actions
why is is so damn cold in minnesota? what good is haarp if we can't improve the weather a bit?
in the future there will be no war...there will only be rollerball.
The amount of energy emitted by HAARP is insignificant compared to that emitted by the Sun, or by the Earth’s core.
by medicineball on Dec 16, 2010 6:52 AM CST up reply actions
and the human head ways eight pounds.
in the future there will be no war...there will only be rollerball.
You must get excellent TV reception
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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 16, 2010 10:30 AM CST up reply actions
What is that, third world HD?
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Google HAARP
Conspiracy nuts say its the govt’s attempt at weather control devices.
by Jepp The Viking on Dec 16, 2010 11:51 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah, I know what it is
But my natural reaction to be a smartass is overpowering at times.
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After a season like this...
Who could blame any Viking fan?
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 17, 2010 5:32 AM CST up reply actions
Joe Webb in Prime Time
This game has comical written all over it. Although to be honest if they want to move the game to another site I think it should be on the frozen tundra. I would love to see the F Pack fans cheering on the Vikings as their playoff hopes die.
Clever!!
And I am sure there would be some Purple Pride showing up to cheer on the Vikings as well.
But, given that its a 50th year Anniversary game…
I do not think they’d be playing anywhere other than MN.
nice that our rookie QB is starting… For a prime time game to be remembered by many.
Ya, no pressure of anything Joe… GO HAVE FUN!
That would be funny. Maybe some of the cheddar heads would paint themselves up in purple for it.
It's a lot easier to love the Vikings when they win...
I know how to kill the dome once and for all!
Let Aaron Rodgers try to lead a 4th Q comeback, that should collapse spectacularly.
by Jepp The Viking on Dec 16, 2010 11:06 AM CST reply actions
We could cover it in whip cream and have Pat eat it
Or tell McKinney it’s a prostitute…
It's a lot easier to love the Vikings when they win...
Tell Madiuew
it is an easy INT and he’ll drop it off a cliff.
by Jepp The Viking on Dec 16, 2010 12:24 PM CST reply actions
That's just MEAN!!!
it made me giggle like a school girl tho
This is a conspiracy!
It is pretty obvious, I’m surprised no one has seen it yet.
Please, when 30+ inches fall on Halloween in 1991, this didn’t happen. Why would 20 inches make the roof collapse with this much damage now? Why would less snow do more damage?
If you watch the footage of the collapse, and time the fall of the roof, it is accelerating downward at a rate greater than 9.8m/s^2. It should be less than that because of the residual tension in the roof. This is evidence that some external force was used, perhaps explosives of some kind, to rip the fabric of the roof.
Don’t let Ziggy get away with this! This is just an obvious attempt to destroy the Dome to get his new stadium!
by HammeroftheGods on Dec 16, 2010 1:35 PM CST reply actions
I hope to GOD your joking...
There were tears in the teflon as inspected from the preceding summer. 1991 is close to nearly 2 decades ago. The teflon roof was likely much stronger, had little wear & tear, and they were already informed to speed up the melting process of the snow. From my understanding, this go-around, the winds were a factor in not getting a chance to melt the snow. Therefore, the weight piled up and stayed there. Result: Teflon-roof collapse.
Well yeah...
… of course it was a joke. But it’s rather bad form and not funny to have to explain jokes.
by HammeroftheGods on Dec 17, 2010 9:38 AM CST up reply actions
AND
Zombies run the Govt. Obama is a terroist, 911 was GW Bush’s idea, aliens live at Area 51, and Aaron Rodgers wins games in the 4th Quarter.
by Jepp The Viking on Dec 16, 2010 3:42 PM CST up reply actions
Whoa, wait
Zombies run the government?
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Yep!
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 16, 2010 11:26 PM CST up reply actions
Oh Dear God
Get Jesse Ventura and his Conspiracy Theory crew on this right away!!
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workers
In the past, the Metrodome sent workers up to the roof during snowstorms to spray hot water with fire hoses on the roof, to remove the snow.
This time, the winds made that too dangerous. For the first time, the workers were withdrawn. That happened at about 5pm. Twelve hours later, it ripped.
by medicineball on Dec 16, 2010 5:44 PM CST up reply actions
at 5 pm they said, "well we better just PULL IT"
in the future there will be no war...there will only be rollerball.
The Metrodome is more fragile
than Tarvaris Jackson
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Debatable
T Jack got hurt 3 times in as many quarters.
Irony→ Brett Favre, a 41-year-old grandpa makes it 321 (playoffs count) games in a row
T Jack didn’t make it 1.
by Jepp The Viking on Dec 17, 2010 11:15 AM CST up reply actions
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