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...from the elements of Minnesota springtime.Oh well, those old enough to remember the Twins' first home, old Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington will exhort younger fans to buck up and remember we're Minnesotans. Cold is simply a state of...
...But those two seasons will be the team's first played outdoors since the Vikings abandoned Bloomington's Metropolitan Stadium at the end of the 1981 season. The plan is for the new, $975 million to be enclosed. But Bagley said that Mortenson...
...first time in the Vikings' 51-year franchise history that they will have a place of their own. They shared Metropolitan Stadium with the Twins for 21 seasons, then shared the Metrodome with the Twins and University of Minnesota football team...
...toward a retractable roof that could restore a wintry element to Vikings games that was lost when the team left old Metropolitan Stadium for the Metrodome in 1982. The team would have to pay the cost of such a roof, and it's not clear how much...
...of seeing an outdoor game, 29 years to the day since his last one in the Twin Cities.The last game at the old Metropolitan Stadium was Dec. 20, 1981. Steve Shepherd, who owns Shep's on 6th in downtown Brainerd, was there. He didn't...
...series against Texas on Sept. 18-20 at a $1 million temporary ballpark in Bloomington near the site of old Metropolitan Stadium. Bill Lester, executive director of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, outlined his concerns over...
...football. Efforts to scrap it were abandoned in 1967 after voters rejected a bond issue to build an all-purpose metropolitan stadium. Instead, a fund-raising drive was launched to purchase the stadium for the city, a $1.8 million deal...
...returned to Minnesota. The year after the Lakers left, Minnesota lured football and baseball teams to play in Metropolitan Stadium. Calvin Griffith delighted millions in the Upper Midwest -- and angered Washington Senators baseball fans...
...was responsible for Camper's Weekend, which brought about 10,000 fans each year in the early 1960s to the Metropolitan Stadium parking lot for a three-day weekend. He was also one of the best three-sport athletes in Minneapolis City...