Minnesota Vikings Asking For Stadium Taxpayer Subsidy Of $77 Per Ticket

The Minnesota Vikings want taxpayers to cover roughly half the cost of a new $975 million stadium near the Metrodome. The Metrodome has been home to the National Football League team since 1982 and generates tens of millions of dollars less in premium seating and sponsorship revenue that the modern stadiums the Cowboys, New England ...

With financing for a new stadium for the National Football League?s Minnesota Vikings plans bottled up in the state legislator, the league has become desperate. To finance the $975 million stadium, the state would contribute $398 million, the city of Minneapolis $150 million and $427 million would come from the Vikings and loan from the ...

The Minnesota Vikings have unveiled designs for their new stadium which is expected to be completed in time for the 2016 season. The $975 million dome was designed by HKS Sports and Entertainment Group.

Minnesota?s House and Senate have approved plans for a mainly taxpayer-financed $975 million stadium for the Vikings that will soon make the National Football League worth $1 billion. In our most recent appraisal of football teams we valued the Vikings at $796 million, 28th out of the league?s 32 teams. Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp., ...

Before politicians vote Monday on a proposal for a new stadium for the National Football League?s Minnesota Vikings, they should read the report below by . The stadium plan calls for the $975 million stadium to be largely paid for by taxpayers, which polls have shown the public is against. It is easy to see ...

The 49ers will likely be the favorites when they host the Minnesota Vikings in the first preseason game this year. But in the stadium financing game the Vikings have already beaten their National Football League rivals. Today the Minneapolis City Council approved plans for a new stadium for the Vikings expected to be ready for ...

The saga for a new stadium for the National Football League?s Minnesota Vikings took a??bizarre twist yesterday as Mark , the state?s governor, claimed the team and republicans secretly met to develop an alternative plan to the one that his been in the works for months. But almost immediately after the republicans announced their plan??Vikings ...

Brett Favre has flown to Minneapolis and reported to the Minnesota Vikings after three players made a personal appeal for him to return for a 20th National Football League season.Both Favre's and the Viking's websites only said "stay tuned for breaking news from the Minnesota Vikings on Brett Favre's possible return" and then "we are awaiting a statement soon from the Vikings."But no confirmation or denial of a return by Favre was made, the team saying only that a Vikings news conference would be staged as usual on Wednesday and an availability with Favre was possible.