Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

In 2013, the NFL’s Vikings and the The Minnesota Metropolitan Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) agreed to construction guidelines for the new Vikings stadium. Replacing the eyesore of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the new stadium called for a modern design with a glass façade that would reflect Minneapolis’s downtown. While the design seemed innocuous to most, ornithologists immediately objected to the plan: large expanses of glass would confuse migrating birds by reflecting the sky. The birds

A very recent example we can see of stadium bargaining is with the Los Angles Rams. It has been a popular practice to threaten to move an NFL team to Los Angles ever since they lost their team in 1994. Since 1994, there have been twenty proposals by NFL teams threatening to move in order to get stadiums publically financed (Wickersham, Natta, 2016). The St. Louis Rams were no different, they wanted to get as much money as possible from St. Louis even though the city had been going through tough economical

In their landmark 1963 book, City Politics, Edward Banfield and James Wilson seek to catalogue the characteristics that make American civic life unique. To them, American government is permeated with politics, lacking a purely administrative sphere. Accordingly, individuals can become involved in nearly any public decision: “It is characteristic of the American political system,” they write, that everyone has a right and even a positive obligation to ‘get in on the act’ of running the government

The Young-Wise Memorial Plaza creates a closely-knit community of the students, faculty, and alumni of Hendrix College who either support the soldiers who had fallen or enjoy the pastime sport of football. The plaza connects the memorials of Robert Young, who died in combat during World War I, and brothers Jeremy and Benjamin Wise, who died in separate actions during the war against Afghanistan, in an area that resembles a park. Young and the two Wise brothers were former Hendrix students who volunteered

Stadiums have been shown to benefit the economy as a whole. “In this article it was talked about having 4 steps that stadiums help the local economy in which those would include the following: building it creates construction jobs, people who attend games or work for the team generate new spending in the community, expand local employment and team attracts tourists and companies to the host city, further increasing local spending and jobs” (Johnson 34). This is more of a strong theory than exact

Sports teams are a symbol of a cities pride. Take for example the Chicago Cubs. They create a sense of loyalty toward that city. However, none of that would happen without a stadium. Stadiums and teams can play a very important role in a cities economy, or they could also be irrelevant. To decide whether or not they are useful or not you must first understand each side of the argument. So first, let’s examine the pros of having a stadium within your city. Then, we will discuss the harms of having

conference championships. They have one NFL championship that pre dates the AFL-NFL merger. They won the championship in 1969. They have had 4 separate stadiums with U.S. Bank Stadium being the newest. U.S. Bank was build upon the former site of Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, and it was just completed on June 17th, 2016. The cost

through playing baseball. Another, significant day in my life is when my family took me to my first Major League Baseball game. I remember that day like it was yesterday the Minnesota Twins were playing the Boston Red Sox at the beautiful Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Twins became my favorite team, because of how they performed that day winning the game seven to one. That day I got to see what would become my favorite player of all time Torii Hunter. Watching the way Torii Hunter played the game