they should put a roof on & have an open roof snow game once or twice a year
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they should put a roof on & have an open roof snow game once or twice a year
Darth Madden
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Glad to see them stay there. Everyone in my family was born in MN (except me) so I do like the Vikings. My aunt took my brother and I to The Met in Bloomington one summer and all we could see through a hole in the fence was the one corner of the endzone where Ahmad Rashad made "the catch" vs Cleveland.
SixMillionDollarMan Guy
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Oh man, you were there in 1980 for "The Catch!"
I watched it from a Minneapolis bowling alley as a kid.
Darth Madden
You Are A Tooooooy!!!
Oh man, you were there in 1980 for "The Catch!"
I watched it from a Minneapolis bowling alley as a kid.
No not the game... just the summer after it.
Nuka Cola Kidd
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A lot of players are tearing their Achilles'. Didn't know it was so easy to do so...
I think a lot of them get tendinitis on it and just push through the pain, which is the worst thing to do, and it tears or ruptures on them. Some of these guys don't realize it's a good thing to take a month or two off and fully recover from everything.
Yes!
Hoping the stadium will be complete by 2016 and able to host the Super Bowl in 2017, the owners appear to be leaning toward footing the bill for a retractable roof, which could help them bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Minnesota. They also see a stadium and plaza with cutting-edge technology and lots of open spaces for fans to congregate.
"We're going to try to get the maximum number of features within the budgets that we can make this a facility that is going to be exciting to the fans," Mark Wilf said Friday. "We know it's a competitive landscape to attract our fans to the facility and we're going to want to make it something special. To the extent that (a retractable roof) can get there, we're going to try to do it."
"If it's snowing very, very hard, we'll open up the roof," Zygi Wilf quipped.
When asked if that meant a roof was definitely in the plans, Wilf backed off, saying he wasn't sure yet. The plans are in their infant stages, with just a few artist renderings shown to the public that could change dramatically over the next eight to 12 months of the design phase. The most recent depiction shows a circular stadium with a huge plaza and green space.
It will be the first time in the Vikings' 51-year franchise history that they will have a place of their own. They shared Metropolitan Stadium with the Twins for 21 seasons, then shared the Metrodome with the Twins and University of Minnesota football team for most of the past three decades.
"We want to get people out of their homes and come to the stadium and enjoy that," Zygi Wilf said. "The features that we have there will evolve. As much as we've seen other stadiums, this will be our own. This will be a Minnesota Vikings stadium on its own. It will have its own footprint and own features that will be different from others."
Sightlines in the stadium and proximity to the field will be a priority. One of the Metrodome's endearing qualities is the noise level that the fans generate, ear-splitting volume that gives the Vikings one of the better home-field advantages in the league.
"It's very important that fans feel they're not watching it from a blimp, that they're watching it from close to the field," Zygi Wilf said. "That's very, very important. We underestimate that when we go to other stadiums, the fan experience, sit in those seats and see how it would be, and a lot of stadiums don't have the closeness as we're trying to get here."
Mark Wilf said they hope to only need to play one season at the university's TCF Bank Stadium, "but it very well may be two."
Hoping the stadium will be complete by 2016 and able to host the Super Bowl in 2017, the owners appear to be leaning toward footing the bill for a retractable roof, which could help them bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Minnesota. They also see a stadium and plaza with cutting-edge technology and lots of open spaces for fans to congregate.
"We're going to try to get the maximum number of features within the budgets that we can make this a facility that is going to be exciting to the fans," Mark Wilf said Friday. "We know it's a competitive landscape to attract our fans to the facility and we're going to want to make it something special. To the extent that (a retractable roof) can get there, we're going to try to do it."
"If it's snowing very, very hard, we'll open up the roof," Zygi Wilf quipped.
When asked if that meant a roof was definitely in the plans, Wilf backed off, saying he wasn't sure yet. The plans are in their infant stages, with just a few artist renderings shown to the public that could change dramatically over the next eight to 12 months of the design phase. The most recent depiction shows a circular stadium with a huge plaza and green space.
It will be the first time in the Vikings' 51-year franchise history that they will have a place of their own. They shared Metropolitan Stadium with the Twins for 21 seasons, then shared the Metrodome with the Twins and University of Minnesota football team for most of the past three decades.
"We want to get people out of their homes and come to the stadium and enjoy that," Zygi Wilf said. "The features that we have there will evolve. As much as we've seen other stadiums, this will be our own. This will be a Minnesota Vikings stadium on its own. It will have its own footprint and own features that will be different from others."
Sightlines in the stadium and proximity to the field will be a priority. One of the Metrodome's endearing qualities is the noise level that the fans generate, ear-splitting volume that gives the Vikings one of the better home-field advantages in the league.
"It's very important that fans feel they're not watching it from a blimp, that they're watching it from close to the field," Zygi Wilf said. "That's very, very important. We underestimate that when we go to other stadiums, the fan experience, sit in those seats and see how it would be, and a lot of stadiums don't have the closeness as we're trying to get here."
Mark Wilf said they hope to only need to play one season at the university's TCF Bank Stadium, "but it very well may be two."
https://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=7942639
Wow guess he be better feel 100% he is right or this could really ugly for him. They huge amount of documents that aren't public are about to go public. I wonder how many players who didn't get suspended just got thrown under the bus.
Wow guess he be better feel 100% he is right or this could really ugly for him. They huge amount of documents that aren't public are about to go public. I wonder how many players who didn't get suspended just got thrown under the bus.
I had a lot of respect for Vilma before all of this, but now he's showing he's no better than any of these other self-centered thugs plaguing the NFL. I can't stand it when these guys knowingly violate rules and then throw a big hissy fit when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar. And that's exactly right- how many people is he going to throw under the bus so he can look out for #1? Classless freaking punk!
Vilma is going to become the first Bonds/Clemens of football. He'll be on the stand for perjury before you know it. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being Williams way of getting back into the NFL. I can definitely see him getting a deal cut to testify against Vilma.
Before it's all said and done, this story is going to trump the Pat's "spygate" scandal if it ever comes time for Hollywood to consider a negative sports movie story for this era in history. Make a movie along the lines of Eight Men Out, about the Black Sox throwing the world series.
I'll give the Patriots the respect that they at least accepted their discipline and didn't throw a big fit about it like these guys are. Yes, Belichick appealed the sanctions, but everyone appeals their disciplinary sanctions. That's just one of those "what's the harm in trying" sort of things. But Vilma has just kicked this up to a whole new level! A lawsuit against Goodell for defamation of character? I think his filing of this suit just damaged his image and reputation for further than Goodell did with this discipline.
I'll give the Patriots the respect that they at least accepted their discipline and didn't throw a big fit about it like these guys are. Yes, Belichick appealed the sanctions, but everyone appeals their disciplinary sanctions. That's just one of those "what's the harm in trying" sort of things. But Vilma has just kicked this up to a whole new level! A lawsuit against Goodell for defamation of character? I think his filing of this suit just damaged his image and reputation for further than Goodell did with this discipline.
But apart from the audio recording, we only really have second hand claims to go on here. I doubt very seriously that Goodell acted without very good cause, but if Vilma really didn't do the things he is accused of, then this could be his only way of being validated in the eyes of the public at this point. His reputation (like that of Williams) is really is in the crapper at the moment, and I don't think anything could hurt it much apart from even more incriminating evidence coming out. But then, I guess I feel the same way about Clemons. He was a liar and cheater, and everyone knew it, so his attempt to "validate" himself in the eyes of the law struck me as an act of desperation, but nothing that made him look worse in my eyes.
I never thought of him as very different from any other player, personality-wise. . .but I did think he was really overpaid considering his contributions to the team.
They were talking to a the legal guy on espn and he said this will likely get thrown out before it happens. He is considered a public person(like all other celebs) and they would have to prove that Goodell knowingly and maliciously gave false info. So even of they could prove the info in the report was wrong he would lose unless they could prove they knew info in report was false and then still said that info with the sole purpose to defame Vilma.
What I don't get is that the NFL had an independent federal prosecutor look at the evidence who validated it so you know there's at least some hard evidence against the guy. Not sure it's worth the fight to let it all air out and damage your name even more. I guess he thinks everyone is bluffing. My guess is it does get thrown out, but I would personally like to see it go forward and let the man get what he deserves wether that be clearing his name or losing it all.
Players are now required to wear thigh pads and knee pads starting in 2013. Bit of a silly rule change.
Grenouille
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It wasn't collectively bargained though. I could see the NFLPA shooting it down.
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