Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.

You all remember this?
Well those days are behind SKOL Country now. After two seasons playing outdoors at the local college stadium and $1.1 billion in new construction financing, the Minnesota Vikings are ready to move into the house that Dennis Green built.

U.S. Bank Stadium, the first fixed-roof (though the ceiling is glass, flooding the facility with natural light) NFL stadium constructed since Ford Field, has completed construction and is ready for it’s gridiron christening on Week 2 as the Vikings host Green Bay on Sunday Night Football. Unofficially nicknamed Valhalla, BIRDMURDERDOME is a fucking fine piece of stadiuming — at least according to the photos on the internet (available here). The ceremonial ribbon cutting was Friday and tours opened to the public over the weekend.

So what do the locals have to say about this new state of the art venue that has replaced and completely transformed the site of the Metrodome? Well, per Google User Reviews…
So some people think it’s a bank. I guess that’s to be expected but no mention of how close the fans are to the field? How about the Wifi hotspots (which, surely, will surely be used to get fans to Pokemon GO to the games)? I will say (though I’d surely never get to enjoy such an amenity) that I think is cool is how the lounge areas are along a section of the lower bowl in the stadium, rather than as a part of the club seat level.

You can peruse the photos yourself and appreciate that it’s got a whole bunch of tvs, a whole bunch of bars, and fantasy football stats available all over the stadium on gameday. Personally, I just think the outside looks cool and is located downtown — as oppose to looking like a coiled up rattlesnake/spaceship that is sitting in some farm field.

Though I do think it’s kind of messed up that it takes over 30 minutes to make a deposit through the car lane.