Looks like there's a deal in place for the Vikings to use TCF stadium during construction.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/vikings-tcf-bank-stadium-deal-feb-21-2012

Slightly off topic, but how how much is a MLS franchise fee? Looks like it's about 40 million dollars. Seems like pocketchange when stadium costs are around one billion dollars.

"Saputo first entered talks on joining MLS in 2008, but an initial bid to start in 2011 was turned down when he balked at the US$40 million expansion fee, proposing instead a package of about $43 million that included a fee and the cost of expanding their stadium."

Lets invest all our beer money into lottery tickets. We hit the jackpot and we have enough for the MLS fee.

Nobody better touch the beer money.

Seamonster, I believe Garber was talking over twice that amount for the next franchise. Can he get that amount of money? That's a question yet to be determined. But he's asking a lot.

Also, someone has created this Wiki page on MLS expansion. Someone who is good at editing Wiki stuff should get in there and add the Minnesota information as we are excluded from the list of potential MLS expansion cities on this wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Major_League_Soccer

Double post. Sorry! Damn intranets. Everyone of them!

Okay, bad idea. Please forgive me!

Yep, Garber wants between 75 to 100 million dollars for team 20. But that's for a NYC team. Do you think he would accept less for a team in Las Vegas, Orlando, or here to expand MLS's footprint?

http://www.mls4mn.com/expansion-fee-for-mls-team-20-could-be-in-the-75-to-100-million-dollar-range/

Took care of Wikipedia. We'll see if it stays up.

"Took care of Wikipedia. We'll see if it stays up."

Excellent!

now have you fixed that NASL google issue?

If folks don't know what Jim is talking about it's in reference to a Sean Francis post this morning on MLS Insider that the North American Star League gaming league is now the number one hit for NASL. What's funny about this is I was getting mega hits on my NASL Google alerts a year ago with the Star league. So much so that I had some email conversations with Aaron Davidson about it. I was told they weren't worried and had an their web guys working on it. ........OK, well how's that working for you now?