Farewell, Metrodome

I remember my feet sticking to the floor in that place. It was like a cheap movie theatre. I went in 2006 and there was a Twins game earlier in the day. All they did was sweep the trash to the aisles and they left it there for the duration of the football game. What a dump. 

How we won there in 2008 I will never know

So long and thanks for all the fish.

You could get tickets for nearly free, nobody cared where you sat, you could get a good beer at any concession stand, and it was warm in November.  

For this year's game, I bought scalped tickets for $50 apiece, I have to sit in the upper deck corner where the weather is going to be upper 30s and cloudy, and there's only one beer garden at one end of the stadium that we literally had to pass a state law to force the school administration to allow.  

TCF Stadium is gorgeous, on campus, and everything the Gophers need it to be, but part of me will still miss that guaranteed win in the Metrodome.

Unless I am mixing it up with wherever Minnesota played before 1981, I remember Bo complaining about how hard the field was at the Metrodome and worrying about injuries.  If it is the same field, I am relieved that the players won't have to be at such great of a risk.

haunts that stadium to this very day

Living in Minnesota, I have attended every game 2003 - present.  The 2003 game will always be a great memory.  The dome itself will always be a bad memory, what a dump.  The new stadium, TCF Bank Stadium or as the locals call it, "The Bank" is a great facility.  Built the same time as Target Field for the Twins, it has great amenities and there are few bad seats in the place.

Heading up early for a tailgate at the Fairgrounds parking lot, free shuttle to the stadium.  If you are attending and are looking for parking, seems to be the best place.  Go Blue!

I'm taking my HS Baseball team over to the Twin Cities to play in the Metrodome this coming season.  I think it will be a great experience for the kids.  

I've seen 3 Michigan games in the Dome.  I've yet to see TCF Bank Stadium, but I'll be there this weekend!   

When you look at the Silverdome and say to yourself, "We should build one of those"  you are headed down the wrong path.

I saw Michigan play the Gophers there in 1998.  Michigan won 15-10, it was an awful game to watch.  The shuttle ride to get out there was horrible.  The environment there was horrible.  The only redeeming quality was that beer was sold, which made the experience moderately tolerable.  Looking forward to catching a road game actually being playing on the Minnesota campus in the future.

I will be at the state fairgrounds to party the morning away and watch Michigan whoop the gophers, hope to see you guys there!

I am coming up for the Northwestern game and want to know a good area for a hotel. Looking around the airport and in the Livonia area. Any suggestions of a hotel that has a good bar in it or close to a good bar?

*In 1991 and 2003, Michigan played their only 2 non-Saturday regular season games there (that I know of off the top of my head.)

I'm sure they weren't the only ones. In the early days of college football, games were played throughout the week.

Mike Reinhold's femur would also like to give a big FU to the Metrodome.

I only got to see one event in the Metrodome: Game 163 in 2009. It was a dump, but it was the greatest baseball game I ever got to be at live. Metrodome had a knack for putting some damn good entertainment on that beat-up carpet and indoor soccer stadium that smelled like a hockey bag. Michigan's 2003 comeback, Cunningham to Randy Moss, and probably the loudest playoff baseball that'll ever be recorded.

I'm headed up for the game.  Any 'must go' places?  i've heard the Big Ten bar.  Anything else in particular?  Is campus worth checking out?

of the dome, it seemed like some Michigan player came home with a ACL injury every year.

Absolutely hated that place, terrible college atmosphere, terrible field, terrible everything.

This goes here.

Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince. 

I attended that '89 game in the Metrodome when Tony Boles suffered that devastating knee injury. I endorse the previous comments about that place. I remember that it seemed sort of dark. It was maybe half to two-thirds full of (mostly) indifferent Minnesotans, so crowd noise and enthusiasm were low to nonexistent. In its resilience, the playing surface was apparently driveway-like. When Tony was helped off the field we all knew it was a serious injury --- how serious we would find out later.

That incident forever influenced my Metrodome memories. I'm glad I never thereafter saw the inside of the place. Fortunately, sanity finally prevailed at the other U of M and they built a new, actual football stadium on the campus.