No, please.

I would like to have some needless growth that leads to extremely fast decay. I say we do it!

Oh I see uh huh.

You people must be eternally miserable.

They do realize it could be snowing or below zero here in the Summer, right? Or temp swings of 70 degrees during any one day?

Sounds great!

Team Somalia won’t have far to travel

OMG…how in the world can we even be thinking of something like this, at a time like this?? The millions of dollars to create a new town that will be useless afterwards?? Tell that committee NO THANKS!

I’m guessing it will end up like it did in 1996 when the Twin Cities were also on the list when we lose out to a larger, “sexier” city. From what I understand, though, the Twin Cities have an unusually high number of venues for athletic competition, which is probably why its name is in contention with cities like LA and NY.

“to resume serious negotiations on a difficult revenue-sharing agreement”

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I’m a lot more concerned about how they plan to share the EXPENSE!

Atlanta was not a sexier city….it was ranked in top ten dirtiest cities. Ted Turner basically sweetened the deal for the olympic committee. The Twin Cities had already built several Olympic venues and had them ready to go (we could reuse these). The swimming facility at the U, the rowing facility on the river, the National Sports Center in Blaine…all built for the 1996 Olympics.

President Obama will go to them to pitch in his support, since it is so close to his home state. that will kill the deal for sure.

Can we all remember the disaster that was the Republican National Convention only a short while ago… Too many people, too much traffic, etc. I think I’ll just head to the lake.

Nooooo we will end up paying the bills for new stuff then have to pay more to support it. Target Center is subsidized by the city of Minneapolis for 2 million a year. You want more things to pay for???? are you nuts????

Well, the stadium backers would get their stadium.

AAAHHH, What does Sid think? Don’t all grandiose plans have to go through him?

Plus he’ll gain more “close personal friends!”

Use the facilities we have. Add a few that we would have anyway. If they don’t like it Dallas is nice in the summer, NOT! LA is nice if you like to drive 2 hours between events. New York … that’s where you can get some cheap hotels and no issues with congestion. Tulsa … that was right on the tip of my tong as my next vacation destination.

Minnesota’s don’t really appreciate what we have. If you don’t like the cold buy a snowmobile. Travel a bit … this is as good as it gets.

I think I may have an idea to boost our chances of bringing the Olympics to Minneapolis and it has something to do with the Vikings stadium. Many people say that the biggest problem for our bid is that there’s no stadium in Minneapolis that could host opening and closing ceremonies and track and field events. My idea is that if the Arden Hills is not working out for the people in the city and the st.paul council who said no to stadium tax, The Vikings should team up with Minneapolis to build a big stadium that has the requirements to represent the Olympic stadium.
Let me explain this by steps.
1. Vikings go back to the Minneapolis site if the Arden hills site is not working out for people
2. Minneapolis and the Vikings both design the 80,000 seat stadium
3. If Minneapolis wins their bid, the city can build the stadium. The Vikings should pay along with minneapolis because the city should get a lot of money from olympic revenue. That should be millions and millions of dollars
3. While construction the Vikings can play in the Metrodome. When construction is finished, they can move into the Olympic stadium.
4. After the Olympic Games and the Paralympics are over, the Vikings can renovate the stadium. They can add a sliding roof or whatever.
The Warehouse district should be the best place to build the stadium, behind target field.
The Olympic Village and park could also be a good place to be built their.
With this plan I believe the state of Minnesota will not have to pay a penny for the stadium. And people who support the Vikings stadium can help support our bid, even people who are against the new stadium in Arden hills can support because they don’t want to pay for the stadium, and with this plan they don’t have to pay a penny. So those people will have to support our bid if they don’t want to pay for the stadium. With all of the support, we could bring the Olympics to Minneapolis!

Minneapolis is the perfect place for the olympics!
Bring 2020 to MINNESOTA!!!!!

Ever since the annocement of the 5 possible bid cities, the only city that is supporting the bid is MINNEAPOLIS. No other city seems to be doing anything! Minneapolis has over 1 MILLION PEOPLE support the bid in facebook! More than than any oher city in the us. So, in my opinon, Minneapolis is best place to host the olympics becase their are already a number exitisting venues and lots of people who can support the bid. Those 2 reasons are what the IOC is looking for to give a city the olympics.

Minneapolis is a great place to host the olympics if it comes back to the us because
New york- very crowded, dirty, and not very nice people
Los Angeles- already hosted the olympics twice! give another city a CHANCE TO HOST THE OLYMPICS
Dallas- VERY TOO HOT in that city and alot and I mean A LOT thing the olympics in dallas is impossible!
Tulsa- well, they got space, but not the money nor the support!

Ii looks like the USOC have will likiky solve the whole revenue problem soon. We need to spread the word that Minneapolis is probably back at the race to host the olympics!
SPREAD THE WORD! SPREAD THE WORD! SPEAD THE WORD TO ALL MINNESOTANS TO GET SUPPORT FOR OUR BID

the olympics has never been hosted in the upper midwest!
Mineapolis is a good place to host the olympics

new york city is a very crowded, dirty, smelly city with not very nice people and I don’t think many people will support for new york. If new york does the olympics, than the city will get crushed. Los Angeles already hosted the games twice, and it semems like nobody in LA is supporting the bid, even the residents of Dallas are not supporting at all!.Also, there is no way Tusla could hold many spectators during the games. Many sporst may have to be hosted out of the state like Arkansa universery. I bet the IOC won’t like that! For Minneapolis, The only promblem I could think of is minneapolis doesn’t have a 80,000 stadium to host cerimonies. They can just build it like what london, bejing, anthens, sydeny, and alanta did. Overall Minneapolis is the best palace in the us to host the olympics

Is anybody supporting the bid? I really want the olympics to come to Minnesota

Minneapolis is a good place to host the olympics!
AND I’M FROM NEW YORK CITY! Which is also bidding for 2020