{"id":6883,"date":"2010-12-15T07:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:23:50","slug":"this-should-help-cure-nostalgia-for-metropolitan-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/this-should-help-cure-nostalgia-for-metropolitan-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"This should help cure nostalgia for Metropolitan Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings won&#8217;t be able to play their last home game at the Metrodome, so the game will be hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/543854-vikings-will-play-final-home-game-at-tcf-bank-stadium?utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=br_vikings\" target=\"_blank\">TCF Bank Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unlike yesterday&#8217;s trek to Detroit for an indoor contest against the New York Giants, this game will not only be outdoors but also at a facility that has roughly 13,000 fewer seats than the Metrodome. Both facts will provide unique challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first outdoor home game for the Vikings in 29 years. And TCF Bank Stadium has been completely shut down and &#8220;winterized&#8221; for the season, prompting one University of Minnesota official to describe the upcoming preparation of the stadium as a &#8220;monumental task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, some of the aforementioned ticket holders to this game against the Bears will not be able to attend because of the shortage of seats.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note &mdash; and perhaps the biggest reason the game is committed to being played locally &mdash; is so the Minnesota Vikings organization can celebrate 50 seasons of Vikings football on a special celebratory evening.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Vikings fans are probably not as hardy as their parents and grandparents . . . unless the weather is particularly mild next Monday, expect a big uptick of support for a new domed stadium to replace the Metrodome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings won&#8217;t be able to play their last home game at the Metrodome, so the game will be hosted at TCF Bank Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota: Unlike yesterday&#8217;s trek to Detroit for an indoor contest against the New York Giants, this game will not only be outdoors but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[964,489,126,179],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-chicagobears","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1N1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25665,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/25665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}