Forbes Values Vikings At $774 Million, 30th In NFL

If the Vikings leave, Minnesota will never, ever see another NFL franchise. And who would want to lose the Vikings, anyhow?

It shouldn’t come down to this, but it’s probably going to take a Super Bowl for people to get their heads out of their you-know-whats. That’s why this year is so important. It’s do or die.

Twins:
Target Field was constructed at a cost of $544.4 million (including site acquisition and infrastructure), utilizing the proceeds of a $392 million public bond offering based on a 0.15 percent sales tax in Hennepin County and private financing of $152.4 million provided by the Pohlad family (Minnesotans and Banking magnates)

Gophers:
The stadium’s cost totals $288.5 million of which the university will pay 52 percent and the state of Minnesota the remaining 48 percent. The university’s share is $111 million.
This includes private donations ($86M) and Corporate gifts (Sponsorships,etc)
The State’s contribution? Including interest the state’s cost is about $10 million per year or about $1.7 million per game for 25 years. This is the University of MINNESOTA, afterall.

Vikings:
Are owned (primarily) by a group of East Coast developers and Investors (exception, Reggie Fowler from Arizona) and previously owned by Red McCombs (Texas). This makes me believe there is a sentiment that the Vikings appear more like a business entity and less like a Minnesota ‘product’…

It was probably the weirdest stat Forbes put out, but the average dollar amount the organization got from the population area it is in. It seemed like the average upper twenty-mid thirty dollar range. Some teams even got so high as the $70 per person average for their population.

The Vikings only had a $16 average per person. It seemed mighty low, but it’s something a new stadium should fix. Keep the faith guys you can keep football in MN!

Minnesotans are survivors, when the St. Paul Saints moved to Chicago in1903 and became the Chicago White Sox’s, we survived. When the Duluth Eskimos (chartered NFL Team, some say that they still exist today as the Washington Redskins) stopped playing in Duluth, we survived. When the Minneapolis Laker’s moved to Los Angeles, we survived. When Norm Greed (Green, but Greed sounds so much better) moved the Minnesota North Stars to Dallas, we survived. When major league baseball, was trying to bribe Mr.Carl Pohlad and have the Minnesota Twins disappear forever (even though the Twins were the Senators before they came to Minnesota and are a Chartered Team in the American League) we survived.

Lets face the facts that the nations economy is very close to how it was during the depression, for many folks. People losing their jobs, homes, medical coverage. Meanwhile more jobs are disappearing overseas. If you call for help with your computer or other products you bought, you end up talking to someone in India, or the Philippines. The Banks and Wall Street have sold out Amercia….

The 32 owners in the NFL, want a 18 week season, to make more money, they want cities to pay for the cost of building their pleasure palaces at taxpayers expense. Who are the taxpayer, it sure isn’t the rich folks who go to the game, and it isn’t the poor people who have no jobs or houses. Our colleges and universities are just as bad as the Professional Sports Teams, with their College Sports Program that cost in many cases are over 4 billion per year.

Meanwhile, a large majority of US Citizens are pinching penny’s and doing without…..

I have not taken a vacation in over 9 years, everything has increase exponentially, to a point the the money that goes out the door in bills and services, leave hardly enough left to put food on the table, and other emergencies that pop up unexpectedly…..

So if the Vikings move to Los Angeles, we will survive. We survived before they came to Minnesota, we will survive if they leave.

I detest people who blackmail others to get what they want…..

Yes, my friends, Forbes is saying such things. They do not care where particular NFL teams play; they are basically interested in the business aspects of things. Businesses go where the market is. If you don’t plant a tree on your own land, you won’t have any home grown-apples. Stock up on Packer supplies now, before they put toll booths on the St. Croix.

The 1995 fans in Cleveland couldn’t imagine their Brownies going to Baltimore and winning the Super Bowl there in a few years either. That did not prevent it from happening.

If Minnesotans want a vacant Metrodome to represent their Minnesota pro football product, so be it.

The Canton Bulldogs were an NFL team too, and I don’t see any NFL team in Duluth.

There were people living in the territory before the Scandinavians moved in. They detested things too. FYI, a lot of them don’t have casinos today.

Talk is cheap. Pro football costs money.

… then things will change. I think Pawlenty is too concerned about his supposed Presidential aspirations to do anything about the stadium.

But, you have to admit, the idea that we’d invest in a stadium when times are rather rough is kind of ridiculous. Maybe Wilf will take that into account and extend the lease a couple of years on the metrodome. LA will still be there. Despite its size, I think Vikings in Minnesota, with a new stadium, will be more valuable to everyone than the team moving to LA.

After all, the Jaguars or the Rams would be more suitable to move to LA. Especially the Jaguars, who have a very limited following and Florida already has two other NFL teams. The Jaguars are so unnecessary.

I have never in my life stepped foot inside of the state of minnesota. My whole family is bears fans, as i live in the chicago suburbs. I have loved the vikings as long as i can remember, much to the chagrin of my bears loving family. I’m pretty sure i like them because they had the coolest helmets on Madden ’94. I see the vikings the one game a year they play in chicago, which is always nice (although of the 6 games i have attended the vikings have never won).

why should i really care if the vikings leave st.paul/minneapolis? I don’t live there, have no connection to the area, etc. But I still would hate it if they moved. ESPECIALLY if they move to LA. also, i would feel really bad for all you vikings fans that have followed the team for years in your hometown. and i just don’t think i could live with myself if i was rooting for a goddamned LA team. I’ll probably just stop following football, or at least any team. rooting for chicago or green bay or indianapolis would be worse than rooting for the LA vikings to me.

Whats worse is my 2nd favorite team is the Jacksonville Jaguars (i lived there for 3 years, and why would anyone hate that team?), and it’ll be a short time before they move to toronto or portland or Las Vegas or even to LA too.

god, not following football sounds more and more reasonable in this scenario. although the toronto jaguars doesn’t sound too bad to me.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. The Vikings beat out “America’s got Talent”. We’re #1! We’re #1!