Bye bye Metrodome

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Just watched the video of the Vikings stadium being demolished. Must have been a hell of a bang! Where's the new stadium?
 

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So not built yet?

I had a look on the NFL site and they'll playing at the University til 2016.
 

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Minneapolisy created a whole department for this:

http://www.msfa.com/

Looks like it's going up right where the Metrodome stood. Not positive, but that page says they need to complete razing of the Metrodome to proceed with construction.
 

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Yup, right where the Metrodome was. It was never a great venue, but I'm still going to miss it.
 

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It won a poll as America's Worst Stadium, didn't it?

I don't know about that, but it was pretty awful--noisy, ugly, and prone to collapsing in bad weather. Also, it was built as a dual-purpose facility (for baseball and football), but didn't suit either function very well.

I passed the site on my way to work this morning. Pylons for the new building are going up a few hundred feet to the east of the old one, which is now in tatters.
 
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Built for football. Couldn't see a baseball for the white roof. If you sat down either baseline you were facing center field. Had to sit sideways in your seat. Good riddance...
 

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I remember the roof caving in a few years back cos of snow.

Have they published the designs for the new one? Does it look good?
 

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There's a few pictures on the MSFA site I linked above. But we all know how different artist's conceptions can be from the final product.
 

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It was a terrible place to watch a baseball game. Football was better, at least in my experience. But I only saw one football game there.
 

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I've just looked at the artist's impressions of the new one. It's an odd shape for a dome!

And that glass roof... how warm does Minnesota get in the summer? Will shadows and what not be a problem?
 

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I've just looked at the artist's impressions of the new one. It's an odd shape for a dome!

And that glass roof... how warm does Minnesota get in the summer? Will shadows and what not be a problem?

Minnesota gets snow in July. I remember one year being there and getting a blizzard over 4th of July weekend.





OK that's not true. Summers are tough to predict. Some are hot and muggy others are cool and nice.