Sid Hartman: If Vikes are sold, they're off to Hollywood
Star Tribune columnist Sid Hartman is convinced the Vikings will be sold and move to Los Angeles if they don't get a new stadium.
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Star Tribune columnist Sid Hartman is convinced the Vikings will be sold and move to Los Angeles if they don't get a new stadium.
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Would the threat of the Vikings relocating be less if Glen Taylor owned the team? Star Tribune columnist Sid Hartman believes that is the case. Hartman points out that the Wilfs have no real ties to Minnesota, but do have millions of dollars in real estate property in southern California.
Reaction to one of Sid Hartman's latest statements is making the Star Tribune columnist seem a bit too excited about Vikings wide receiver Jerome Simpson. Hartman said Simpson will be "another Cris Carter." You know, the same Cris Carter that is fourth on the NFL's all-time receptions list.
This opinion column is like blunt force trauma to NFL fans hoping the Vikings move to Los Angeles. Jeff Cesario points out that L.A. has plenty of team-specific football bars and does just fine without its own team. He also points out that Hollywood will never love a football team as much as Minnesota fans do.
Star Tribune sports columnist Sid Hartman makes it clear that he's no supporter of Penn State's Jerry Sandusky, but doesn't think Nittany Lions football coach Joe Paterno should be the scapegoat for the sex scandal surrounding the university.
Vikings vice president of public affairs and stadium development Lester Bagley says Los Angeles isn't the only city the team could relocate to if a new stadium isn't built in Minnesota. Bagley wouldn't divulge which city is interested, but it has been in contact with the team in the past year.
Star Tribune columnist Jim Souhan takes Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, to the woodshed for asking "Why should the state of Minnesota contribute to a stadium for a billionaire owner?" Urdahl, however, voted in favor of the latest Vikings stadium package.
Ted Glover, who writes the Daily Norseman blog for SBNation.com, predicts the Vikings are headed to Los Angeles now that Gov. Mark Dayton has told the Wilf family that the Metrodome is the only new stadium site that will get consideration in the legislature this year.
Vikings owner Zygi Wilf tells the Star Tribune's Sid Hartman that he is suffering this season because he thought the team would be more competitive than its 2-8 record.
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