Minnesota Football Stadium Roof

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Minnesota football stadium roof.

Bank stadium 2016 minnesota vikings record by facility. The minnesota vikings new stadium has a number of unique upgrades in architecture design and technology. The roof which covers and unifies the stadium bowl plaza and adjacent arena is clad in ethylene tetrafluoroethylene or etfe a tough translucent plastic that thanks to its dotted frit. It also hosts early season college baseball games of the university of minnesota golden gophers.

The game ended with the bears defeating the vikings 40 14. Bank stadium is an enclosed stadium that almost feels like it s outdoors. The thunderdome opened in 1982 as a replacement for the metropolitan stadium which housed the minnesota vikings and mlb s minnesota twins in minneapolis. The metrodome was one of the more unique nfl stadiums that ever existed.

Property of the nfl and fox. Minnesota vikings seasons by facility metropolitan stadium 1961 81 hubert h. Humphrey metrodome the indoor stadium opened in 2016 and is the home of the minnesota vikings nfl. Using the nation s largest etfe roof and pivoting glass doors the new home the nfl s minnesota vikings u s.

The high tech plastic roof on the new minnesota vikings stadium looks like something from a household kitchen a wobbly paper thin surface that could be used as a cutting board. To this day it is still the only facility to have hosted a super bowl world series mlb all star. 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.