Minnesota Vikings Stadium: Preliminary Agreement Reportedly Reached

I hope this is a positive step towards a deal to keep the team in MN. I could use a drop in my blood pressure. By the way, I love this site. I am glad I found a new Purple home. You guys seem awesome and cheeseless.

Go Vikes!!!!

while I don’t like the state paying for any of it, I wonder why they are picking up more for Minneapolis than they would for Arden Hills….and why the Vikings weren’t allowing any change to their “agreement” with Arden Hills in order to get the legislature to possibly approve it but were willing to work out a deal in Minneapolis…makes me think that the sentiment about “We are committed to Arden Hills because it gives the fans the best experience” was a bunch of bull shit.

I wont believe this is true, until the bill is 100% confirmed. This has happened, where a “deal” was said to be all but assured, but something happens and derails the project.

and wow. what a d-bag. his little bar graphs were hilarious.

Sounds like a true Minnesota sports fan, right? We’ll its true.

Lets not forget we have the King of the double-speak Kurt Zellers still leading the House and he can’t commit one way or another on the stadium or any special session possibility. Then we have idiots like Dave Thomspn and David Hann in the Senate and while they may not be Assistant Majority Leaders anymore, they still presumably have big mouths which can do a lot of damage to this project, especially Thompson’s collasal mouth.

Hopefully, they are all defeated as soon as their terms are up.

Then you have the team having to contribute more ($427M) than they initally wanted. Remember Zygi said the price goes down if the site is not Arden Hills. I see him contributing no more than $300M personally with or without the help of the NFL’s G3 Fund, that is unless he’s willing to say “The Hell with it” and get the deal done in MN just for the sake of getting it done. I have my doubts.

But the biggest obstance is the face the Minneapolis City Council does NOT have the 7 necessary votes to approve their $150M contribution and with Target Center NOT being part of the deal, that is going to turn a lot of them off including Rybak who insisted upon it and hinted it was deal breaker. See the above link.

I still think the Republicans will find a way to muck this up in the end, this sounds too good to be true and I am just waiting for the excuses to start rolling in from Julie “Progress is being made every day” Rosen to Morrie “Same old thing different day” Lanning. They haven’t got a clue how to do this because in reality most Republicans don’t want this issue, not now not ever. They are just unfortunately the party in power when the time has come to get it done and we are beholdent to them and they know it. They really don’t want to do anything because they know whatever they do is going to hurt them come November politcally but lets face it, after the 2011 Government shutdown which will be succesfully tied to them, plus the fact their idea of “legislating” is taking the major issues like tradtional marriage, voter ID, and Right to Work and putting them on ballots as referendums instead of you know, actually doing their jobs and passing bills, they are the outgoing Majoirty party soon and they deserve it because they didn’t do enough.