Vikings lease ?

[croixflats]

Now the Metropolitan Sports Facility Commission may start charging rent at $4,000,000 a year if the Vikings dont accept their new proposal for a new 2 year deal with a year to year after that.

Vikings refused the offer in hopes that a new stadium deal could be worked out. It looks as though The Vikes are digging their heals in and saying the dome is inadequate and forlonging discusion is over.

Now with this new proposal/blackmail by the MSFC going to push the Vikings further down the road to California where

Gov Schwartz just signed a bill king a new sports stadium for a Pro football team to be moved in from another state?

[Craigums]

Ugh this just had to happen after I got a vikes tattoo on my rear end wth

[croixflats]

Bad picture! Bad picture! I see rose pedals, I see rose pedals.!

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Ziggy was so mad he cut off all negotiations today with the MSFC and said there is no interest in being in the dome after next season. Went on to say the organisation is moving forward to allocate a new venue that is not the dome stopping short of threatening to move the team.

[gopher_nation]

I just look at it like a game of poker. Each party thinks the other is bluffing. One of them will give. The dome needs the Vikes, otherwise it's the ugliest vacant building in Minneapolis. The Vikes need the Dome if they want to play in Minnesota.

In the Star Trib's article two days ago about the dome offering a lease extension, someone (can't remember who) was quoted as saying something along the lines that, "you'd have to be a complete political moron to believe that in the economic status of the state that it would fork over money for a new Vikes stadium" That's not exactly what was said I don't want to look it up but that was the jist of it.

The Minnesota Momentum HSOforum has some good information on how to raise money for a new stadium. I think the quoted person was right on the political sense of it, in the current economic situation it could be career suicide for a politician that votes to increase taxes to give the Vikes money. La, la, la. I'm on the side that says our state should do everything it can to keep the Vikes right here where they belong. Besides, Jacksonville should be the first team the NFL wants to move.

[croixflats]

I have seen the same reports. What it comes down to who will fold first. The first that folds may just think the cost of business in this state is not worth being put on hold for 2 more years or more. After all the Dome is ranked one of the least revenue generated in the NFL. 3rd I believe.

As political suicide it seems they always find a way to circumvent consequences of votes. Look at Pawlenty and his votes against light rail. Thank god for Jessi

[zepman]

I guarantee you that any politician that let's the Vikes leave town on their watch will never hold public office in this state again.

[LMITOUT]

In the Star Trib's article two days ago about the dome offering a lease extension, someone (can't remember who) was quoted as saying something along the lines that, "you'd have to be a complete political moron to believe that in the economic status of the state that it would fork over money for a new Vikes stadium"

Good. It's way past the time to tighten the purse strings in this state. If anybody thought the state budget deficit was bad last biennium you haven't seen anything yet, and the idea of the state paying for a private organization's sports complex is ludicrous. Not many good things have ever come out of California, but they have a law that the State will not pay for such things and Minnesota should follow suit.

For those who believe the State should pay for it, well, I'm betting that Zigy will glady take a personal check from you if you wish to contribute so badly. The rest of us don't.

The bottom line is that Zigy wants the state and the people that live here to pay for it and he knows it's full of suckers willing to do so.

[IFallsRon]

The Vikings are pretty tough with a winning record. I doubt they'd be showing the same bag with a .500 team.

Detroit will be having its third blackout this season. That could have happened here without Favre.

[zepman]

Anyway...anyhow...by any means...let's get the stadium deal done.

I would expect those type of comments from LMITOUT...he's a troll without an outward team of allegiance...a coward, so to speak. I wonder how much public financing the team you really root for received in their last stadium deal.

Much more on the line than paying for some super rich guys stadium here folks. There's thousands of people who rely on the Vikings as a means of employment and wages. It's an industry in itself and it's uniquely Minnesota!! Go Vikes!!

[pegleg]

Well said Zepman... MN has contributed to other companies besides sports teams to stay here or to improve their companies. I can think of Northwest Airlines, Target Corporation (helped pay for their building downtown), Ford in St. Paul, etc. etc. We also funded the dome, Excel, Target Field, Target Center so why dig our heals in now with the Vikes... Get it done - we can't have a better owner than Ziggi to work with on getting a stadium.

[LMITOUT]

Typical Minnesota.....

Uniquely Minnesota is $7 Billion+ in debt and asking for more, more, more for me, me, me.

Unreal. I'd say unbelievable but it really isn't than unbelievable anymore.