The people of Minnesota, the state legislature in particular, should start quaking in their mukluks. AEG CEO Tim Leiweke was in Minneapolis this week and met with Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and other team officials. AEG and Leiweke are searching the country for an NFL team to fill their proposed downtown Los Angeles stadium. Unlike Minnesota, Los Angeles actually seems to want an NFL team even though they have never been very successful at keeping one.
Leiweke did have business, other than kidnapping the Vikings, in the Twin Cities area. He also has a relationship with the Wilf family. The Vikings officials primarily were inquiring about the idea of developing an entertainment district around the hoped for Vikings stadium in Arden Hills. Leiweke has loads of experience with this sort of endeavor and the Vikings were simply getting some information. I don't really care how innocent this meeting was. I want it to scare the "powers that be" in Minnesota into action. They must realize how critical the Vikings stadium situation has become. The lease with the Metrodome ends after this season. This waffling has to end now. The Vikings could be gone this time next year and the team could be having an entirely different conversation with Leiweke. We are way past saying "time is running out". Time has run out.
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