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U.S. Bank Stadium is an enclosed stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.Built on the former site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the indoor stadium opened in 2016 and is the home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL); it also hosts early season college baseball games of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers.
The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture. [22] From the start, the Vikings embraced an energetic marketing program that produced first-year season ticket sales of nearly 26,000 and an average home attendance of ...
Minnesota Vikings colors on Huntington Bank Stadium's field. Due to a collapse of the Metrodome's roof, the Minnesota Vikings' Monday Night Football game against the Chicago Bears was held at the stadium on December 20, 2010, which was the Vikings' first outdoor home game since exactly 29 years before, when Metropolitan Stadium was closed. [114]
On July 18, 2017, the Vikings announced that that year's training camp would be the Vikings' last in Mankato, Minnesota. Minnesota State University, Mankato had hosted Vikings training camp for over 50 years. [9] Beginning with summer 2018, Vikings training camp is held at TCO Performance Center. Approximately 5,000 fans per day attend training ...
The Minnesota Vikings are an American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.After initially committing to become one of the founding members of the American Football League (AFL) in 1959, the team joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion franchise and played their first game in 1961, as part of the Western Conference.
The Chiefs meet the Minnesota Vikings at 3:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Chiefs are off to a 3-1 start after Sunday’s 23-20 victory at the New York Jets .
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (commonly called the Metrodome) was a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.It opened in 1982 as a replacement for Metropolitan Stadium, the former home of the National Football League's (NFL) Minnesota Vikings and Major League Baseball's (MLB) Minnesota Twins, and Memorial Stadium, the former home of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team.
And the $1.061 billion U.S. Bank Stadium for the Vikings is funded by the Vikings ($563 million), State of Minnesota ($348 million) and the City of Minneapolis ($150 million). [20] Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild.