As the Minnesota Twins launch their long-coveted baseball stadium, the Minnesota Vikings continue to wait for their own new digs.
Perhaps the wait won’t be all that much longer.
Team president Mark Wilf said Wednesday that he’s hopeful that state lawmakers will address the problem this year. “There’s five weeks to go in our legislative session here and we’re confident that we can still reach a resolution to get a stadium solution,” Wilf said, per the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. “We’re working hard with legislative leaders to get a solution done and a lot of very creative and good ideas have come forward and we feel something will get done this session.”
But what if it doesn’t? “The reality is we’re competing with 31 other teams, of which 28 have new stadiums in the last 15 years or major renovations,” Wilf said. “We’re fighting an uphill battle and that upstream fight can only go on so long.”
Wilf didn’t say that the Vikings would look to move if a solution isn’t reached. But he doesn’t have to. The Vikings become stadium free agents after he 2011 season. And L.A. is waiting.
