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Re: NFL Thread (2012)
« Reply #400: April 17, 2012, 11:43:20 AM »
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The House Government Operations Committee voted 9-6 against the stadium bill Monday night, dealing a major blow to the team's decade-long effort to secure a replacement for the Metrodome. The vote came just after 10 p.m., following a four-hour hearing during which lawmakers heaped criticism on the $975 million planned partnership between the team, the state and the city of Minneapolis.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/more/wires/04/17/2080.ap.us.vikings.stadium.2nd.ld.writethru.0892/index.html#ixzz1sJRlzrp7

looks like MN tax payers won't be getting bent over by the NFL

(as far as LA goes, good luck unless Zygi wants to sell the team)

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-philip-anschutz-nfl-la-20120402,0,7235412.story