Vikings unveil pictures of new stadium design

[madinmaryland]

The Minnesota Vikings unveiled photos of their new stadium’s design on Monday, which the organization said would make it capable of hosting more events than any other stadium in the world.

“Tonight’s unveiling showcases a bold, iconic design delivered by HKS,” Vikings owner and president Mark Wilf said in a statement. “Not only is this facility unique to Minnesota, but the stadium will also provide Vikings fans with the best game-day experience in the NFL, which has always been our goal.”

Some of the stadium’s proposed features includes what the organization described as the largest transparent roof, which is possible from the first use of clear ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) in a stadium in the U.S. The team said that the stadium would also have the biggest “glass pivoting doors” of any stadium, which will open to the Minneapolis skyline.

Groundbreaking for the new 65,000-seat stadium will take place in October 2013, and the new stadium is scheduled to open in the 2016 season. The stadium is expected to cost $975 million.

http://tracking.si.com/2013/05/13/new-vikings-stadium-photos-pictures-images/?sct=hp_t2_a12&eref=sihp

[Scuba]

1. Fans should nix any stadium tax 'til the Vikings Super Bowl record is over .500.

[madinmaryland]

2. I think they have to get it above 0.000 first!!

[Auggie]

3. Looks like a chunk of ice. How appropriate.

[El Supremo]

4. Makes this one look so outdated:

[JonLP24]

5. Almost as crazy looking as the Falcons stadium proposal

http://deadspin.com/the-prospective-designs-for-the-atlanta-falcons-new-sta-486145271

As El said, the Cowboys stadium is looking more and more outdated which is a problem for the future since more and more teams will want a crazy looking expensive stadium

[Auggie]

6. I think that looks really cool ...

overlooking, for a moment, how much the billion dollars used in construction could benefit schools, elder care, jobless people, free clinics, etc.

[bluedigger]

7. Good idea going with experimental roof tech.

They've had a lot of luck with that in the past.

[Goblinmonger]

8. It wasn't the roof tech that caused that problem

it was the heating system. And that roof was up nearly 30 years before that problem.

[bluedigger]

9. Whatever.

The Vikings will still suck.

[MrSlayer]

10. They're foolish to give up their homefield advantage with a dome.

Ever since they went indoors it's been a long string of futility. In the PPE days, the cold was a significant advantage for them.

[Goblinmonger]

11. I've been a Vikings fan since almost the beginning (born 1966)

and, yes, the cold was an advantage, but it certainly didn't help us win any Super Bowls. I think the 1998 team was the best they have ever had and but for Denny Green being a giant shitbag and taking a knee against the Falcons at the end (I mean, seriously, you have the best offense the NFL has ever seen to that point and you taking a fucking knee?--yeah, I'm still better), we may have gotten our big win.

Plus why would any NFL venue do something to make it so that their new stadium doesn't get the Super Bowl bid? Fiscally that seems stupid to make a new stadium that you know will never host the Bowl.

[Jamaal510]

12. I always thought that

playing in a dome would be an advantage because of all the crowd noise being trapped in.