Let’s Laugh At The Vikings New Stadium » Brats & Beer

July 22, 2008
posted under: Vikings suck

The Minnesota Vikings have been begging and pleading that state for years to build them a new stadium to replace the Humpy Dumpty Dome in Minneapolis, but those tight-fisted Minnesotans just won’t give them a penny. (Hundreds of millions so billionaire Carl Pohlad can have a new baseball stadium? Sure thing! New football stadium? Go jump in a lake!)

Zygi Wilf’s latest plan for a stadium was unveiled last week, a design by Ellerbe Becket for a “reconstruction” of the Metrodome.

Ugly new Vikings stadium

I’m not sure how those Vikings fans are reacting, but they can’t seriously call that thing a football stadium. It looks more like a space pod or a giant blob of protoplasm. Rather than sports, I think it’s a biosphere where hazardous experiments are carried out.

I just don’t get the current trend in stadium design that favors big, block structures over something that looks like a stadium. The Colts are moving into a huge barn in Indianapolis this season, and the Texans play in some kind of tomb that looks more like a blimp hanger than anything else.

Thank the stars Bob Harlan didn’t try to “reconstruct” hallowed Lambeau Field into one of these monstrosities.