If I might be so bold, I have a suggestion about a Minnesota Vikings stadium that perhaps hasn't been considered: Make it virtual.
Find an abandoned warehouse somewhere in the middle of Minneapolis (there might be a few), gut it, plaster the inside with green screens and let the Vikings play their games there.
There are probably scads of unemployed programmers and digital artists willing to participate, to build a virtual stadium around the players and broadcast it to the paying public. It wouldn't even have to be the same stadium with each game.
The Vikings could play in one of the stadiums of Imperial Rome or under the eyes of the Aztecs. They could even play in some fantasy setting -- say, under the twin moons of an Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars.
A physical stadium is so 20th-century. A virtual stadium would not be subject to rain, snow or other physical problems, and it could showcase the technical prowess of Minnesota.
Also, and this is a plus, if Zygi Wilf decided that he no longer wanted the Vikings to play in Minnesota, the city fathers could simply hand him a DVD with the stadium's bits and send him on his way. But we could always keep a copy.
HANK SHORE, MINNEAPOLIS
