Vikings stadium clears final hurdle | Minneapolis Star Tribune
with the state and the team. By redirecting sales taxes, the city will contribute to a massive new football stadium at the site of the Metrodome while also reserving funds to upgrade and pay debt on the city-owned Target Center, home of the Timberwolves. "I'm very proud of...
Mpls. seals deal for Vikings stadium | Minneapolis Star Tribune
with the state and the team. By redirecting sales taxes, the city will contribute to a massive new football stadium at the site of the Metrodome while also reserving funds to upgrade and pay debt on the city-owned Target Center, home of the Timberwolves. "I'm very proud of...
Access Vikings: Chemistry builds during OTAs | Minneapolis Star Tribune
Star Tribune football writer Dan Wiederer and assistant sports editor Chris Miller catch you up on what's been going on during the off-season.
Access Vikings blog: Goodell addresses the media | Minneapolis Star Tribune
decade ago. Theyre more protective. They allow better performance. We also think its important. Every other level of football requires these pads and the NFL doesnt. We think thats part of sending the right signal to other levels of football ... The technology has advanced. In fact, the CEO of...
Vikings hope to be able to make up for last year's lost lockout time with longer training camp | Minneapolis Star Tribune
so NFL teams including the Vikings continue to make the trek to quieter, smaller cities so focusing on football is easier. "Especially because we have such a young team of guys, to be able to take advantage of the extra week to get to know each other and be...
Vikings getting ready for longer camp | Minneapolis Star Tribune
so NFL teams including the Vikings continue to make the trek to quieter, smaller cities so focusing on football is easier. "Especially because we have such a young team of guys, to be able to take advantage of the extra week to get to know each other and be...
Readers Write (May 19): Recall election, prom, Jesus, postal service, Vikings, day care | Minneapolis Star Tribune
not like we're Green Bay. Losing the Vikings would not equate to losing our identity. I love football, and fall would not be the same without the Vikes. I even still miss the North Stars, but life goes on. KATHY VITTUM, NORTH ST. PAUL Gov. Mark Dayton can...
Vikings sign Tyler Holmes, waive Kris Adams | Minneapolis Star Tribune
last month. He is 6-foot-5 and 308 pounds. His father, Richard, is a former standout in the Canadian Football League. And Holmes himself but opted to stay in school for another year and finish his career at Tulsa. Now he'll give things a go with the Vikings.
Hartman: Vikings glad to leave Metrodome behind | Minneapolis Star Tribune
money on players and you have to be making sure to get the free agents and have the football operations. To [now] know that you're in the same facility and the same place for the long haul certainly will help. "The Metrodome, I think it was agreed by...
New Vikings linebacker Elimimian... | Minneapolis Star Tribune
practice when he heard the inevitable question that he has fielded hundreds of times since he started playing football in the ninth grade at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles. "So," said Vikings linebackers coach Fred Pagac, "just how tall are you?" The answer? Same as he was...
New Vikings linebacker Elimimian hits hard, no matter his size | Minneapolis Star Tribune
practice when he heard the inevitable question that he has fielded hundreds of times since he started playing football in the ninth grade at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles. "So," said Vikings linebackers coach Fred Pagac, "just how tall are you?" The answer? Same as he was...
Hartman: Fans seal the deal for Vikings stadium | Minneapolis Star Tribune
of a retractable roof that could bring many events to the city. "From day one, our passion for football and seeing the passion of the Vikings fans as we embarked on this ownership made us committed to the fact that our fans here deserve a new stadium where they...
Vikings pay $50M more in deal passed by House; Senate up next | Minneapolis Star Tribune
back to my neighbors. He said his stadium vote giving a large public subsidy to a wealthy pro football team owner -- was in stark contrast to his philosophy to vote for taxing the rich every possible chance I get. Others continued until the very end to convince their...
Vikings agree to kick in $50 million more on stadium | Minneapolis Star Tribune
that the publicly-owned stadium be operated in a "first-class manner" that would be "consistent with other comparable" National Football League stadiums. Even before the Vikings stadium legislation was introduced in the Senate on March 12, opponents had complained that the project was given special privileges...
Vikings agree to conference panel's boost in share to $477M | Minneapolis Star Tribune
publicly-owned stadium, saying it had to be maintained in a "first-class manner" and consistent with other comparable" National Football League stadiums -- but removed a reference that it, specifically, be maintained like the Indianapolis Colt's Lucas Oil Field. The details of a furious, final stadium...
New agreement boosts Vikings stadium share to $477 million | Minneapolis Star Tribune
publicly-owned stadium, saying it had to be maintained in a "first-class manner" and consistent with other comparable" National Football League stadiums -- but removed a reference that it, specifically, be maintained like the Indianapolis Colt's Lucas Oil Field. The details of a furious, final stadium...
Senate approves Vikings stadium with a raft of changes, differences | Minneapolis Star Tribune
98 percent fee on, among other things, tickets, concessions, merchandise, stadium signage and the Vikings share of National Football League revenue sharing. But the Senate, in a close vote, reversed itself and instead settled for a less stringent set of user fees that, while still opposed by the team...
Vikings kicker has big shoe to fill | Minneapolis Star Tribune
from 50-plus yards). He makes the list primarily, though, because he is the only player in the Pro Football Hall of Fame who was solely a placekicker. Stenerud was preceded by Rick Danmeier (1978-82) and Benny Ricardo (1983) and followed by Chuck Nelson (1986-88). Never take kicking for granted...
Rand: Vikings kicker has big shoe to fill | Minneapolis Star Tribune
from 50-plus yards). He makes the list primarily, though, because he is the only player in the Pro Football Hall of Fame who was solely a placekicker. Stenerud was preceded by Rick Danmeier (1978-82) and Benny Ricardo (1983) and followed by Chuck Nelson (1986-88). Never take kicking for granted...
Senate approves Vikings stadium bill 38-28 | Minneapolis Star Tribune
stripped language that would give Vikings owner Zygi Wilf or anyone else whose family are owners of the football team an exclusive right for five years to bring in a professional soccer team to the new stadium. The chief Senate stadium author meanwhile unveiled a series of new user...
Senate adds user fees to Vikings stadium, drops soccer plan | Minneapolis Star Tribune
stripped language that would give Vikings owner Zygi Wilf or anyone else whose family are owners of the football team an exclusive right for five years to bring in a professional soccer team to the new stadium. The chief Senate stadium author meanwhile unveiled a series of new user...
Senate: Vikings plan cannot override Minneapolis referendum | Minneapolis Star Tribune
of stadium suites, a 10 percent fee on parking within a half mile of the stadium during National Football League events and a 6.875 percent fee on team jerseys and other league-licensed products sold at the stadium. Another change would have the state retain the naming rights for...
Senate reinstates Minneapolis referendum for Vikings stadium | Minneapolis Star Tribune
of stadium suites, a 10 percent fee on parking within a half mile of the stadium during National Football League events and a 6.875 percent fee on team jerseys and other league-licensed products sold at the stadium. Another change would have the state retain the naming rights for...
Senate author proposes user fees to help Vikings stadium | Minneapolis Star Tribune
of stadium suites, a 10 percent fee on parking within a half mile of the stadium during National Football League events and a 6.875 percent fee on team jerseys and other league-licensed products sold at the stadium. Another change would have the state retain the naming rights for...
Tuesday (Ryan Longwell and the Vikings kicking game) edition: Wha' Happened? | Minneapolis Star Tribune
You have to be sound in the kicking game. It's a well-worn football cliche -- so much so, in fact, that back in the day we would randomly belt out that phrase, regardless of whether a game was on or we were doing...