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**Frazzled**

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vikings-outdoorsagain

Cue the snow: Bears-Vikings take it outside
By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press
24 minutes ago

ShareretweetEmailPrintMINNEAPOLIS (AP)—The snow is falling again on the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium as the Minnesota Vikings and their fans prepare for a return to outdoor pro football in the Twin Cities.

The Vikings and the Chicago Bears are scheduled to kick off their Monday night game at 7:30 in the open-air Gophers stadium. They were forced across town after heavy snow caused the Metrodome’s roof to collapse earlier this month.

Campus officials spent the last week clearing snow out of the stadium, but it was falling again Monday afternoon with 3 to 5 inches forecast by game time. Fans with tickets are expected to start lining up by 4 p.m. to get a general admission seat.

The Vikings played their last outdoor game in Minnesota exactly 29 years ago.

**Mr Mystery**

They'll still be clad in armour like a Big Girls Blouse convention!

Real men wear no armour! And walk on their eyes!

**Wolfun**

Mr Mystery wrote:They'll still be clad in armour like a Big Girls Blouse convention!

Real men wear no armour! And walk on their eyes!

Hoo-rah!
BRING ON THE KIWIS AND THE BRITS.

**Frazzled**

Yall are missing the foot of snow thing.

**Mr Mystery**

**FITZZ**

Mr Mystery wrote:

That's not snow....THIS is snow..

**Frazzled**

Fitzz understands.

**KamikazeCanuck**

lol, Yeah I think that previous one was 1mm of snow.

**Mr Mystery**

FITZZ wrote:
Mr Mystery wrote:

That's not snow....THIS is snow..

That is a bunch of wussies in armour standing around in a field.

**DarthDiggler**

I don't think you understand. It's not the snow. There will be no beer sales allowed at the game. That's worse then snow. Also the bathrooms are open air (no doors) and the pipes are not winterized. The bathroom pipes can freeze and there will be no toilets. No beer, no toilets and oh by the way the stadium seats 50,000, but there are 63,000 season ticket holders in Minnesota. 13,000 will be turned away.

**Mannahnin**

Rugby players are big, scary men.

Football players are also big, scary men.

Football players play sufficiently fast and hard to sustain substantially more injuries than rugby players, despite the armor.

Darthdiggler's point about how hardcore American football FANS are is also well taken. Rugby and soccer fans don't (as a rule) have the tolerance for snow and cold that a fair number of Americans take for granted.

**Mr Mystery**

Winterized?

We in proper country have no concept of this 'winterized'...

Is that like armour for pipes to go with your armour for girlymen?

**Mannahnin**

What's a proper country? Is it a rather small, warm place?

**Mr Mystery**

No. It's a gakky little tagnut on the arse end of europe that used to actually run the world.

And doesn't need girly armour for contact sports!

**dogma**

DarthDiggler wrote:I don't think you understand. It's not the snow. There will be no beer sales allowed at the game. That's worse then snow. Also the bathrooms are open air (no doors) and the pipes are not winterized. The bathroom pipes can freeze and there will be no toilets. No beer, no toilets and oh by the way the stadium seats 50,000, but there are 63,000 season ticket holders in Minnesota. 13,000 will be turned away.

I still have no idea why they built an open air football stadium in Minneapolis. Near and sub 0 temperatures are not uncommon, not even in early-mid November when the stadium was planned to be essentially closed.

**Frazzled**

dogma wrote:
DarthDiggler wrote:I don't think you understand. It's not the snow. There will be no beer sales allowed at the game. That's worse then snow. Also the bathrooms are open air (no doors) and the pipes are not winterized. The bathroom pipes can freeze and there will be no toilets. No beer, no toilets and oh by the way the stadium seats 50,000, but there are 63,000 season ticket holders in Minnesota. 13,000 will be turned away.

I still have no idea why they built an open air football stadium in Minneapolis. Near and sub 0 temperatures are not uncommon, not even in early-mid November when the stadium was planned to be essentially closed.

God made Minneopolis to train the fathful!

**dogma**

He should have given them better football teams then.

**Mannahnin**

Mr Mystery wrote:No. It's a gakky little tagnut on the arse end of europe that used to actually run the world.

Sounds like a relatively small, relatively warm place to me.

I'm sure it's nicer than your sales pitch makes it out, though. It's got cool places like Stonehenge and the Imperial War Museum in it.

Mr Mystery wrote:-And doesn't need girly armour for contact sports!

Psst. If you give them a little bit of armor, they hit each other even harder. Might want to try it.

**Lint**

dogma wrote:I still have no idea why they built an open air football stadium in Minneapolis. Near and sub 0 temperatures are not uncommon, not even in early-mid November when the stadium was planned to be essentially closed.

College football season generally ends before the weather turns nasty. And Autumn in Minneapolis is supposed to be nice from what I understand.
Proper football is a cold weather sport, I love the fact that they'll be playing a superbowl in NYC. All those rich look-at-me's who show up for the party..errrrrrr....superbowl might actually have to deal with some weather, and not just sit there drinking Cerveza in San Diego.

**Fateweaver**

The outdoor field was actually built for the Minnesota Twins. Hence why all season long the Vikings have played in the Dome.

But with the Dome collapse and no other venue to play at (last week the game between the Vikes and Giants was moved to Detroit's Ford Field) it was either postpone the game (which is a headache as far as scheduling) or play outdoors.

The outdoor field IS closed for the winter as it was primarily built for baseball, which ends in September. It just so happens it's the only place other than Chicago to play and obviously the Vikings are going to want to keep a home game @ home.

@that pic of 1" of snow. Yeah, that's not snow. 1" of snow is 2 hours of snowfall in Mn.

**Lint**

Fateweaver wrote:The outdoor field was actually built for the Minnesota Twins. Hence why all season long the Vikings have played in the Dome.

They are playing at TCF Bank Stadium. Where the University of Minnesota Gophers play. Not The Twins, who play at Target Field. Hence the alcohol restrictions and the 13k seat shortage for the Viking game.

**Fateweaver**

Ah, my bad.

I think the TCF Stadium is still not meant to be open in December.

I'll do more research.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Mannahnin wrote:
Mr Mystery wrote:No. It's a gakky little tagnut on the arse end of europe that used to actually run the world.

Sounds like a relatively small, relatively warm place to me. I'm sure it's nicer than your sales pitch makes it out, though. It's got cool places like Stonehenge and the Imperial War Museum in it.

Mr Mystery wrote:-And doesn't need girly armour for contact sports!

Psst. If you give them a little bit of armor, they hit each other even harder. Might want to try it.

Armour = more injuries. Some of the worst Football and Hockey Injuries are from the so-called "padding."

**DEUS VULT**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Mannahnin wrote:
Mr Mystery wrote:No. It's a gakky little tagnut on the arse end of europe that used to actually run the world.

Sounds like a relatively small, relatively warm place to me. I'm sure it's nicer than your sales pitch makes it out, though. It's got cool places like Stonehenge and the Imperial War Museum in it.

Mr Mystery wrote:-And doesn't need girly armour for contact sports!

Psst. If you give them a little bit of armor, they hit each other even harder. Might want to try it.

Armour = more injuries. Some of the worst Football and Hockey Injuries are from the so-called "padding."

+1
Helmets are haaaaaaard

**Peter Wiggin**

Football should be like 40k, covered in spikes, sporting skulls, and grimdark as hell. We don't hold any illusions about their actual skill at football, but thats not really the point.....

**rubiksnoob**

Mr Mystery wrote:Winterized?

We in proper country have no concept of this 'winterized'...

Is that like armour for pipes to go with your armour for girlymen?

+1

**helgrenze**

Eli don't like cold.

**Stormrider**

Having played both sports, American Football is much more violent than rugby. The speed of the game is the killer.

**dogma**

Lint wrote:
College football season generally ends before the weather turns nasty. And Autumn in Minneapolis is supposed to be nice from what I understand.

I played college football in St. Paul for four years, autumn in Minneapolis isn't that nice; particularly late autumn.

Lint wrote:
Proper football is a cold weather sport, I love the fact that they'll be playing a superbowl in NYC. All those rich look-at-me's who show up for the party..errrrrrr....superbowl might actually have to deal with some weather, and not just sit there drinking Cerveza in San Diego.

Having played for 10 years, I couldn't disagree more. Snow makes the game slow down to a crawl, significantly increases the number of injuries, and and generally makes for a game that's boring to watch and play. Its not as bad as heavy rain, but it still sucks something awful.

**Stormrider**

helgrenze wrote:Eli don't like cold.

Sheli doesn't like winning either.

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dogma wrote:
Lint wrote:
College football season generally ends before the weather turns nasty. And Autumn in Minneapolis is supposed to be nice from what I understand.

I played college football in St. Paul for four years, autumn in Minneapolis isn't that nice; particularly late autumn.

Lint wrote:
Proper football is a cold weather sport, I love the fact that they'll be playing a superbowl in NYC. All those rich look-at-me's who show up for the party..errrrrrr....superbowl might actually have to deal with some weather, and not just sit there drinking Cerveza in San Diego.

Having played for 10 years, I couldn't disagree more. Snow makes the game slow down to a crawl, significantly increases the number of injuries, and and generally makes for a game that's boring to watch and play. Its not as bad as heavy rain, but it still sucks something awful.

Indeed, slick fields wind up pulling more groins and hamstrings than anything else. I pulled my quad on slick field turf, not fun.