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The Vikings organization, along with the Minnesota legislature, released the details of its new plan to pay for a new $791 million fixed-roof facility today.   The city where the stadium would be built has yet to be determined. With just a few weeks remaining in the legislative session, time is running out to get this bill passed.  Even though the budget deficit is still unresolved, legislators say conditions are right to move on ...

Why It’s Now Or Never for a Vikings Stadium

Posted: 1st May 2010 by Josh Hewitt in NFL
Rewind to January of this year. The press and politicians thought we were crazy to start a stadium movement to keep the Vikings in Minnesota . Talk of state deficits dominated conversations and the advocates put in charge of protecting professional sports in Minnesota (Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission ) themselves were throwing in the white towel and insulting those that thought otherwise. We have come along way since January. Light is at ...