Ok People, all you naysayers that think the Metrodome is fine to play oat…. TIME TO GET A NEW STADIUM… WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is my 20th birthday & I had tickets to the game! Well I guess not many people can say the dome collapsed on their 20th birthday.

If the Vikings and their fans want a new stadium, make the Vikings pay for it.

How many times does this or has this happened in the future?? If a new stadium is sooooo important then the VIKINGS can pay for it on their own. We all know the players make enough .. I think they have the funds.

How many times does this or has this happened in the past?? If a new stadium is sooooo important then the VIKINGS can pay for it on their own. We all know the players make enough .. I think they have the funds.

dumb people?? you are the dumb one. The Vikings bring Jobs, they bring people here from other states that spend money on hotels, food, parking, tickets, that equals $$$$$$$$$$$$$. Players get paid millions of dollars and have to pay huge taxes to the STATE OF MINNESOTA!! THESE BENEFITS ARE ANNUAL OVER AND OVER. You are the dumb ones.

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you know if you had tickets they will give you the best seats possible next game wich is at detroit

Come on, Vikes, don’t be a party-pooper. Let’s play outside tomorrow at the Brand-New TCF Bank Stadium. This is going to bring back such vivid memories from Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington MN, where the Vikes used to play. I can’t wait to put on 10 layers of clothes, freeze my ass off, along with my nostrils and lungs in the minus 10 degree air, then tail-gate like it’s 1999.

Not one tax payer penny for a new Vikings stadium! mark@mntaxwaste.com

linkesman and get a clue on behalf of dumb people and myself “feed up with this” why doun’t you two pay our portion of the tax increase that there will be with a new stadium !!!

A Minnesota Treasure!!

Thid id one reason I have a 8′X8′ piece from the first Dome tear when it snowed and got smart and moved SOUTH !!If you still live there then I really feel that you NEED to PAY FOR A STADIUM FOR THE VIKINGS TO PLAY IN THAT THE SNOW WON”T GET INTO.

Did you notice the workers up on top of the stadium NOT wearing a safety harness?!

Play outdoors like the Patriots and maybe you will have abetted chance at a championship. Get your long johns out!!!!

How much will it really cost. A new stadium will create hundreds of jobs for three years (jobs we really need now. Continue the massive income taxestax payments for player salaries, sales taxes on hotels, concessions, restaurants, parking,et. Where will all that revenue come form if the Vikings are the LA whatever.

So third comment that was deleted… Ask yourself who’s bright idea it was to spray fire hoses on the metrodome all night saturday night to “clear the snow” and let it sit until the collapse… Somehow, the news is not reporting the events leading up to the collapse and it’s agrivating. Minnesota has had a LOT more snow that the 16″ or so that we had this weekend. This is not the result of heavy snowfall, it’s the result of heavy ICE and WATER that the dome officials sprayed on the roof hours before the collapse.

I think “Stevo” does not understand once you biuild a new stadium, you have an increase in tourism dollars coming into the State of Minnesota. You also attract more and bigger conventions, more $ coming into the state.
Yes, “Stevo” we only need one stadium…

Maybe this stadium could be on this old house.

I want to know if there is video from outside the dome showing the collapse….

Bob,

Do you really think you NEEDED to clear the snow off the roof of the dome? Per the officals on Saturday, there was “No immediate danger of collapse” in the first place. IE that means the roof was withstanding the weight of the snow as-is, no issues. There was simply no need to add additional weight to it.

per google, 1 inch of rain = 10 inches of powdered snow. if they dumped 5 inches of water on the dome, it’s equivilent to dumping 50″ of snow on the roof. See the coorelation?

Nevermind that we’ve had bigger accumulative snowfalls in minneapolis and they’ve never used water to clear the roof of the metrodome since the late 80′s, according to the news saturday night. Brilliant idea.

So bob, why don’t you submit your bid to use a snowblower or whatever think is necessary, or you could go with facts or figures that suggest it wasn’t necessary being that it clearly withstood the weight of the snow on its own all day.

Didn’t this happen a few years ago on 35w? That’s when the construction crew loaded the bridge with hundreds of thousands of tons of construction material and equipment and didn’t think it necessary to take precautions. Where was the media on that? Affraid to point fingers. Just like this, the metrodome officials loaded it with ice and water and brought it down. How ignorant is that? Under the smoke and mirrors of “safety”.

1 inch of water = 10 inches of snow. How many inches of water was sprayed on the roof? 5, 10? Equivilent of 50″ – 100″ of snow? Of course the roof collapsed. Brilliant.

Finally, James hit the root of the problem. When I heard on the newscast this morning that this is how they were trying to remove the snow, it was a ‘duh, what do you think was going to happen’? New technique or just an old one gone bad??!!!

Take a breath Vikings, the Metrodome is not dead yet…

Despite the calls from the Vikings for a new stadium, the most recent stadium roof collapse does not
spell the end of the Metrodome. It has occured at least four other times after snow storms,
and has survived many other snow storms with heavier snowfalls since it was inflated in october 21,1981.

After they pulled off the roof cleaning crews for safty reason, there was probably no doubt the roof
would collapse under the weight of the snowfall, thus allowing TV crews to be onhand to film the
collapse. The Twin Cities Media immediatly began using the roofs collapse as proof of the need
of a new stadium for the Vikings, which is dishonest reporting at the very least.

Snow Storm Totals from the past:

1981 November 19 : 10.2″ snow Metrodome roof collapse
1982 January 22 – 23 : 20.0 inches
1982 January 20 – 21 :17.4 inches
1982 December 27 – 28 :16.5 inches Metrodome roof collapse
1983 April 14 : ? inches Metrodome roof collapse
1985 November 29 – December 1 :21.1 inches
1985 March 3 – 4 :16.7 inches
1985 March 31 :14.7 inches
1986 Partial dome collapse by wind
1991 October 31 – November 3 (Halloween Blizzard) :28.4 inches
1991 November 29 – 30 :14.3 inches
1999 March 8 – 9 :16.0 inches
2010 December 10 – 11 :17.1 inches Metrodome roof collapse

The average annual snowfall in the Twin Cities is 45.3 inches

If any questions should be asked, is what did they expect would happen with a dome held up only by air pressure,
given the history of snow storms dumping an average of 10″ of snow in Minneapolis? What were the design specs for
this roof? Are snow cleaning crews the only answer, or could/should they have added some rigid support after the stadium
was built to help prevent snow from repeatly collapsing the roof? Is the design firm partially responsible for a flawed design?

It has been suggested that the Dome did not collapse but rather it was “sucked” down. Now we just need to figure out what inside the dome could possibly “suck” that much. Hmmmmm? Anyone?

No tax money to build a stadium for these spoiled brats to play eight games a year in. That kind of expenditure is pure folly and insanity.