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Metrodome
Metrodome Address: 900 South 5th Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415
Metrodome is Home to the: Minnesota Vikings
Metrodome Opened: April 3, 1982
Metrodome Capacity: 55,883
The Metrodome is an incredibly
versatile stadium that hosts a number of events. It’s the home field for
the NCAA’s Minnesota Golden Gopher football team,
Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins and the
National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings. This
stadium can hold 64,121 for a football game and 46,487
for a baseball game. The stadium is also referred to
as the “thunder dome” because during the
1987 World Series ABC-TV had put a decibel meter to see
how loud it go in the stadium and the meter broke. The
noise that night was borderline illegal for Minneapolis
metropolitan area.
The Metrodome is very unique in the fact that it
has 10 acres of Teflon coated fiberglass as a roof. The
roof is kept afloat by 20 electric fans that keep it
in the bellowing shape that it is always in. Many a baseball
player has had a problem with the roof of the Metrodome.
The color of the roof is an off white color which coincidentally
happens to be the same color as the ball. So every couple
of weeks or so they will show a highlight of
some guy looking for the ball and then trying to get
out of the way of it before the ball comes back to hit
him in the head. It always makes for great entertainment.
Former names have been Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome,
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, The Metrodome, Mall of America Field, The Homerdome, The Dome, The Thunderdome. No matter what current name you use it replaced the Metropolotan Stadium, which was also known as the Met, The Ice Palace, the Old Met, which was used from 1956 until 1981.
More about the Minnesota Vikings in Metrodome including tickets to all the games.
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