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In 2009, the MSFC and the Vikings agreed to name the field, "Mall of America Field." The Vikings won their last game at the Dome on December 29, 2013, against the Detroit Lions. The Twins played their last game on October 11, 2009, against the Yankees, moving to Target Field the following season.
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It became a movie set in 1993 for the film "Little Big League."īy the late 1990s, the multi-purpose Metrodome no longer met the needs of Minnesota's professional teams. The Metrodome served as a music venue for concerts by Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, and many others. Rollerbladers, runners, and walkers took advantage of the stadium's concourse during the winter months. Many high school games moved to the Dome when the Halloween Blizzard of 1991 closed outdoor fields. The University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers played football, baseball, and softball there. Local college and high school athletes also played at the Metrodome. The Dome welcomed Super Bowl XXVI and two National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four basketball tournaments. The Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team played their 1989–1990 inaugural season there.
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The Dome will always be associated with the Twins' 19 World Series wins.
The Metrodome hosted many premier events, including the 1985 All-Star Game and, on October 17, 1987, the first World Series game ever played indoors. The Vikings’ first indoor season opened September 12 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On April 6, 1982, the Twins played their first regular season game inside the Metrodome against the Seattle Mariners. Officials named the stadium in honor of former Vice President Hubert H. The completed structure, financed through bond sales and hospitality taxes, cost $55 million. It collapsed four times, the first just six weeks after its completion. Made of two layers of woven fiberglass fabric separated by a cushion of air, the Teflon-coated roof proved to be no match for the heavy snow and ice of Minnesota's winters. Crews inflated it for the first time on October 2, 1981, using twenty ninety-horsepower fans. The ten-acre, air-supported domed roof took four months to build. Construction began in December 1979 Minnesota workers performed most of the labor. The engineering firm of Geiger Berger Associates designed the roof. The architectural firms of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Setter, Leach & Lindstrom, Inc. In December 1978, the commission voted 4–3 to approve the Minneapolis downtown site. The MSFC fielded eight proposals for the new facility. The site strengthened the city's bid for the stadium. The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Stadium Task Force created the Industry Square Development Corporation, which purchased a twenty-acre site on the east side of downtown Minneapolis for $14.5 million. The commission had three options: to spend up to $25 million to remodel Met Stadium for all sports to spend up to $37.5 million to remodel it for baseball and build a new football stadium adjacent to it or to spend up to $55 million to build a domed stadium in a new location.
The bill authorized Governor Rudy Perpich to appoint a seven-member Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission (MSFC) to choose a location and design for a new stadium. In 1977, State Representative Al Patton (DFL-Sartell) sponsored a no-site stadium bill.
The threat of the Twins and Vikings leaving Minnesota when their use agreements expired in 1975 prompted the legislature to reconsider the project. State legislators, however, were reluctant to approve financing they felt taxpayers would be unwilling to pay for a new ballpark. The city of Bloomington made its case for keeping the stadium there. In 1973, a Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Stadium Task Force studied options for a new facility. Humphrey Metrodome ("The Dome"), a covered, multi-purpose stadium built in downtown Minneapolis, served this purpose for thirty-one years. By the early 1970s, Minnesota's teams, seeking greater profits, began to demand a bigger and better venue. As enthusiasm for professional sports grew in Minnesota during the mid-twentieth century, Metropolitan Stadium, designed for baseball, became too small and had too few amenities to continue to attract professional teams.