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Vikings could play four seasons at college stadium
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08:10 AM ET 05.11 | Minnesota -- legislatively, anyway -- has its new NFL home, but it will need to make interim shelter arrangements. The Vikings and the University of Minnesota have announced a preliminary agreement on the NFL team's use of TCF Bank Stadium during construction of a new Vikings stadium. On Thursday, May 10, the U released details of a letter of intent governing use of the stadium. ... The Vikings could lease the stadium for up to four consecutive NFL seasons anticipated to start in 2013; or, they could play at the facility for all or part of one season, anticipated to be 2015. Under the deal, the Vikings would pay rent of $250,000 per game, plus an estimated $50,000 from shared concession, advertising and other revenue.
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So... $8M rent for four years while the new barn is being built...
Seems pretty fair to me.
Otis B. Driftwood
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Sounds like the U is going to make some money off this deal.........
HILLBILLY
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Maybe they can develop with the Big 10. By the time the stadium's finished, maybe they'll be able to compete at the next level.
Lightly Salted Nuts
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The better ticket value will be the University of Minnesota games.
TxHeat
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Understated... but well played sir.
Otis B. Driftwood
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Exactly. When you consider how revenue they'll take in per game, $250K is a bargain.
Hatrunner
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No matter how you slice it, now tgat rhe Vikes are off the list, LA will now need another market to steal a team from.
Hazen
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Things haven't stabilized in St. Louis. Don't forget they sold their souls to the league offices for the next 3-4 years to take the England game. That takes away a home game from St. Louis each of those years. That was to try to force the stadium issue.
Lightly Salted Nuts
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well..there is still Jacksonville as a possibility.
TxHeat
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same crap as when the Bears played in Champaign
Brooklyn Brawler
Dallas, TX
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Football outdoors? In the winter? In Minnesota?
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
Debbie Does
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Another four years of college?
Have the Vikes gone to iPads, or are they going to have to deal with those book things again, too?
Debbie Does
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HUD projected onto a contact lens. Assimilate info even during a blink of the eye.
quasi44
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As always the taxpayers get the honour of paying for the billionaires new cash machine. Wish I was as slick as an NFL Owner.
SteveDallas
Amarillo, TX
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The college team will outdraw the pros.
TxHeat
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As they should. There's no free lunch in this world.
Whitey0302
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You mean the icebox that broke the indestructible Brett Favre?
Minnesota won't have any players left after those four years.
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Inferiority Complex Group, FN
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Zing!! Nicely done...
Mangler.
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Aint that the truth, we must be doing something wrong....
Mangler.
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