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HPGrant129
10-15-2008, 08:50 AM
Back in the day of the of the Purple People Eaters, the Vikings seemingly had their own Metropolitan Mistique.
Anyone have photos or video of the Met back in its heyday?
Specificially in it's football setup (field markings, etc).
Thank you!
Not sure how much I would have wanted to see a football game there, considering how far the seats were from the sidelines.
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Seattle1
12-06-2008, 10:47 AM
I really wish the Vikings still played outdoors on real grass. That would be so much cooler if they did.
Dodgeboy
12-07-2008, 07:30 AM
If only Minnesota had been smart enough to build a new Vikings stadium next to a renovated Met in the 70's. We could of had our own Kaufmann / Arrowhead style complex.
HPGrant129
01-10-2009, 08:06 AM
If only Minnesota had been smart enough to build a new Vikings stadium next to a renovated Met in the 70's. We could of had our own Kaufmann / Arrowhead style complex.
Yes, but you know how owners (specifically Griffith) can be. If a move is able to fill his pockets, he'll go where the money is.
The only real place we could have built a new stadium would have been east of the Met. Met Center was already installed, and any further north would have been using the airport's property. By the late 70s, there were too many business developments east of 24th Ave to build...and south of the Met was too close to the river.
About the only option I find that was viable was refurbishing the met during the season. Perhaps wrapping north bleachers (the end zone) to the sideline grandstand and/or moving the bleachers closer to the field.
KC did it with Municipal Stadium...I don't see why we couldn't.:cry:
Dodgeboy
01-10-2009, 07:50 PM
Didn't Griffith publicly regret moving to the Dome right away? He tried to opt out of the lease and sell the team (Tampa Bay?), leading to Pohlad buying the team. I've heard a quote that if the third base-line seats had been permanent like the first base side, he never would have moved.
Either way, the Dome just delayed the inevitable construction of single-use stadiums. :sorry: