If the Vikings left Minnesota would you support them?

**StillPurple** · 04-08-2008, 12:23 AM

Zeus, since when do we have to back up what we write here with "evidence" ???? (funny, but your posts are missing footnotes and annotations).
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That thing about the Dolphins being blacked out: every NFL fan knows that.

Do you really think the Bills fill their house on Sunday ? (I really doubt that they pack that house).

Where is your evidence that I am wrong ??? :

You think I made that up about the city of Indianapolis 'covering' the Colts budget ?? where the hell would I get that from ?

BTW, notice that those teams are all AFC ?

**vikings4life33** · 04-09-2008, 10:47 AM

i will always support this team no matter what. thats why when i got my jersey made it has my name on it.

**Zeus** · 04-09-2008, 11:05 AM

"StillPurple" wrote:

Zeus, since when do we have to back up what we write here with "evidence" ???? (funny, but your posts are missing footnotes and annotations).
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Plain and simple:
If you're going to make outlandish claims, then I'm going to ask for "evidence".

=Z=

**ultravikingfan** · 04-09-2008, 11:08 AM

"vikings4life33" wrote:

i will always support this team no matter what. thats why when i got my jersey made it has my name on it.

Too bad it would be a totally different jersey.

**NodakPaul** · 04-09-2008, 11:32 AM

"Zeus" wrote:

"StillPurple" wrote:

Let's also just compare:

- The Buffalo Bills play in an 80,000 seat stadium that is half-empty on Sunday.

Evidence?

- The Colts have had to rely on public assistance from the city of Indianapolis. I know that the NFL does not like this situation.

Evidence?

- The Miami Dolphins home games were blacked out in on TV in southern Florida for years due to lack of fan interest.

Evidence?

In contrast: the Vikings are privately funded and fill their house every Sunday.

So who should move, again ?

LOL, that's hilarious.
The Vikings needed 3 buy-outs from corporate sponsors to ensure sell-outs last season.
And that's WITH Purple Jesus running wild.

Your first three "points" are all dubious.
I would like to see non-Wikipedia evidence for them.

=Z=

Lol.
I had to go back three pages to find this little debate between Z and SP.

Last year, the Bills sold out a minimum of 7 home games, maybe all of them.
The only one I couldn't find a definitive answer for was the final game, which was NY Giants at the Bills.
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/07/16/daily18.html
http://www.emqb.com/buffalo-bills/buffalo-bills-vs-cincinnati-bengals/
http://www.miamidolphins.com/newsite/news/top_story.asp?contentID=5509

As far as Miami, I can't find anything specific listing how many games were sold out last year, but I know that at least the final three home games in Miami were sell outs.
COnsidering it was a winless season at that point, that speaks volumes for the fan base.
http://www.miamidolphins.com/newsite/news/top_story.asp?contentID=5544
http://tananarivedue.blogspot.com/2007/12/zen-art-of-being-dolfan-2007-miami.html

The best I could find regarding the Colts is an article from 2003 that says that in the 19 years the team had been in Indianapolis, the team had received approximately $138 million in subsidies.
No idea where that information came from though.
http://www.nuvo.net/articles/article_1409/

So SP was completely wrong on the Bills and the Dolphins (as well as the sellout issue with the Vikigns), but may have been correct with Indianapolis...