Temporary sports facilities shouldn’t be afterthoughts, a lesson that Seattle and Chris Hansen should be aware of. What happened in Minneapolis on Sunday during the Vikings-Seahawks game is a cautionary tale.
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Anyone watching the Seahawks and Vikings act out scenes from “The Revenant” in glacial temperatures Sunday now knows that temporary sports facilities shouldn’t be afterthoughts.
To be fair, the Vikings didn’t have much choice on locales when they paid the University of Minnesota $3 million annually to use TCF Bank Stadium for 2014 and 2015. There weren’t a bunch of 50,000-seat venues in the area to use while the Vikings build their permanent roofed facility.