Something good happens and first reaction is: “Crap, they did something good, now what are they going to to do to undo the good?”

It was getting difficult to wind myself up to write about the stadium situation.

That those contributions should be reversed. The state should be paying the $350 million and Ramsey County should be paying the $300 million. But that train has sailed.

Ginger Rogers said she had the harder job because she did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in heels. Koch and Zellers better strap on those heels because they’re about to start dancing backwards.

Of course you’re preaching to choir here at DN :) Seems like a vocal portion of Ramsey County voters just hit that “enough is enough” point when they heard about the proposed sales tax increase. I understand, it’s a crap economic time and the idea of getting tapped for any more taxes makes people angry. And I truly believe that that the state of Minnesota should be paying a larger amount to this project than Ramsey County. That said, it just makes sense for the state to keep the Vikings and build a new stadium. Keeping the Vikings means keeping tax revenue (income, sales tax, etc.) in the state and building a new stadium means creating construction jobs.

The Vikings have been vocal about wanting to make the fans’ game day experience great. That’s why they want room for tailgating and a team museum and things like that. They don’t want it to just be about how the team is doing on the field for four quarters, but about the entire experience of spending the whole day at the stadium having fun.

I like the concept, it kind of reminds me of going to my college’s basketball games. Our team sucked. Seriously, they almost always got their asses handed to them—they were just that bad. But we had so much fun at the games making noise and cheering that, despite how awful our team was, there was always a crowd there for the games. It was about the whole experience and not just the action on the court.

It will be interesting to find out more about the Met Council’s site feasibility study. If that is done and it hasn’t uncovered anything crazy bad, then I think most of the significant hold-ups will be out of the way. But I’m going to keep my fingers crossed for good luck for just a bit longer.

Just know that I’m giving you a stern look through my monocle.

Vikings fans shouldn’t be too cranked at the Ramsey County residents who have wanted the proposed tax increase to be put on the 2012 ballot. It’s a tough economic time and, for a lot of people, hearing all the misleading info about the stadium proposals in the news and finding that funding would be obtained through a proposed sales tax increase was just the last straw—regardless of the amount.

That the Vikings would have something set up so people can donate to the stadium if they want to. I’ll forward the question on to the Vikings PR people who I bug on a regular basis. Considering they spend a lot of time in meetings where people are yelling at them for wanting a new stadium, questions regarding how people can voluntarily donate to the stadium would probably be a nice change.