A standard NFL season includes 10 football games (two preseason and eight regular season games), plus any home playoff games.The Vikings are expected to play at TCF Bank Stadium for the 20 seasons, but the agreement allows for use through the 2017 season with proper notification. The Facility Use Agreement stipulates the following: The projects selected must be beneficial to the nearby neighborhoods and businesses, allow for participation by the Vikings and their partners and be approved by the Vikings. The Vikings will contribute $125,000 per NFL season, a combination of cash and in-kind contributions, to the Partnership Fund, which will be used to implement tangible and visible projects during the years the Vikings play at TCF Bank Stadium. The agreement also includes the creation of a Minnesota Vikings Good Neighbor Partnership Fund, which will be established and administered through the existing University Good Neighbor Fund. In total, the Vikings will pay the University $300,000 per game, with a maximum of $3 million for each NFL season. The team will also share $50,000 per game in concessions, advertising and sponsorship revenue. In addition, the Vikings will pay the University a per-game rent of $250,000 for the 20 seasons, with minimal increases if additional seasons were to be required.
The use agreement stipulates that the Vikings will reimburse the University for any required TCF Bank Stadium capital improvements, as well as all game-day operational expenses. The agreement is subject to approval by the University’s Board of Regents, which will vote on the proposal during its meeting Friday, May 10, 2013. The agreement also allows for two additional seasons, if necessary. The University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Vikings have agreed to terms on a Facility Use Agreement that allows the Vikings to use TCF Bank Stadium for the 20 NFL seasons. Minnesota Vikings, University of Minnesota reach agreement on use of TCF Bank Stadium View images of the new Vikings stadium that were released on Monday, May 13, 2013. The roof’s angle is steeply pitched to help keep snow off - a feature that designers, mindful of the 2010 collapse of a snow-laden Metrodome roof, clearly valued. Half of the roof, meanwhile, will be made of transparent ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) membranes, a type of polymer that was used in the Beijing Olympics’ “Water Cube.” That including five, 95-foot-tall pivoting glass doors that will open towards the downtown side of the stadium.
The new stadium won’t have a retractable roof but will allow plenty of light in anyway, courtesy of plentiful use of glass.
Minnesota Vikings stadium design unveiledĪ chorus of architects, government leaders and Minnesota Vikings officials announced the design Monday night for the team’s $975 million Vikings stadium, which will be nearly twice the size of the old Metrodome.
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