Apparently Sid Hartman was off the reservation on this one: Minnesota Vikings VP Lester Bagley told reporters yesterday that his team wasn’t going to share the University of Minnesota’s football stadium, no way, no how. “It’s not an NFL stadium and does not meet the program requirements for a basic NFL venue in terms of suites, club seats, signage and sponsorships,” said Bagley.
The MinnPost’s Jay Weiner further notes that even just adding an extra tier of seats to the Gophers’ stadium would be no easy task and carry an unknown price tag. Weiner’s verdict on yesterday’s Hartman column that started this whole rumor: “Silly, silly, silly.”