Farewell to the Dome
Jim Caple has a nice piece on ESPN.com on the Dome,
OK, the Metrodome has some issues. But the place always deserved more respect than it got.
It was built in that era when communities had this quaint belief that function was more important than owners’ revenue streams, when the primary goal was to provide a home for as many sports as possible for the least amount of public money (those were the days, huh?). And the Metrodome did that better than any other stadium. In addition to being home for the Twins, Vikings, Gophers and (briefly) Timberwolves, the Dome is the only stadium to host the World Series, Super Bowl and Final Four (it held all three in a spectacular six-month span from October 1991 to April 1992). Heck, at the Metrodome, you not only occasionally got two sports in one day (Twins game in the morning followed by Gophers football game at night) but sometimes got two sports at the same time (Kent Hrbek’s WWE takedown of Ron Gant in the 1991 World Series).
It is sort of sad to see it go (for the Twins) and especially on days like today, but there’s a reason I only went to one Twins baseball game this year: the Metrodome.
October 3 2009 6:11 PM
