Hooah! Minneapolis-St. Paul Suburb Agrees to Let Minnesota Vikings Think About Building New Stadium on Army Site

With the Vikings' lease on the Metrodome set to expire in 2011, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is desperately seeking ideas on how to get a new stadium to avoid losing their NFL team to Los Angeles.

Many ideas have been proposed, including a way-out-of-the-box one by myself in an earlier post. On Tuesday, the Ramsey County board voted 6-1 to approve negotiations with the Vikings to build a stadium on a site that will make the team shout "Hooah!"

A former Army ammunition plant in Arden Hills.

Meanwhile, officials from the city of Minneapolis say the Metrodome site would be the best place to build the stadium. Other sites reported to be considered are ones near Target Field and one near the Target Corp. campus in Brooklyn Park.

Regarding what the fans think about where to build the new stadium, the following are the results of a recent Minneapolis Star-Tribune poll:

Metrodome site -- 37.3%

Arden Hills -- 40.3%

Brooklyn Park -- 6.3%

Expand TCF Bank Stadium -- 5.3%

Don't Build a New Stadium -- 10.5%

Total Votes -- 4,080