Ted Phillips Study on Grass v Turf

TED, Yelling out his backdoor -'Hey kids, you like to roll around the grass or the turf?"
Kids "The Grass!!!!!"

Study Concluded

I think the Vikings missed out on a pretty huge late season home field advantage by not having an outdoor stadium.

Seattle wanted no part of an undermanned Vikings in the playoffs last year.

works out fine for the bear, another dome team to lose in the cold if the home game is scheduled in november/december that year

That thing is going to have some pretty weird shadows.

I think its going to look pretty ugly on TV.

From http://www.usbankstadium.com/new-viking ... xperience/

John Larson – What can you do to get rid of shadowing on the field?

Shadowing will exist but we expect it to be very minimal. Along with the ETFE defusing sunlight, the steel support structure underneath the ETFE is much smaller and lighter than large trusses that span the length of the stadium, causing smaller shadows. HKS has prepared sun studies to better understand this issue. It is an important one for all parties, and we are confident shadows will not be an issue for players or fans.

Vikings and Gophers should have shared a stadium permanently; neither one justifies its own building with so few dates.

Dirty little secret of the Twin Cities is that half the people up there are Packers fans. Lots of Minnesotans were Packers fans before the Vikings were established/got good and passed it down through generations, plus the Cities are a major destination for Wisconsin's brain drain. Combine that with the fact that all the Vikings do is kick their fans in the dick really hard every year and it's no wonder people would have wanted them to go. I'm surprised more people don't have a laissez-faire attitude toward letting the Bears leave.