Metrodome Joins Vikings in Collapse

Holy cow! The Metrodome collapsed!

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrobowl, Minneapolis. The inflatable roof collapsed due to the weight of snow from this weekend's blizzard, which had dumped 17 inches on Minneapolis by Saturday evening. Image from KARE TV via CNN.

I say get out the utility knives, remove that roof, and play real football ball in the snow! Or just leave the roof where it is, rig up some ski-lifts, and let the kids sled in the Hubert H. Humphrey Snow Bowl all winter.

Favre + Wind: Vikes Invest in Green Power

If hiring Favre didn't turn diehard fans away, this green move surely will: the Minnesota Vikings plan to buy wind power from Xcel Energy to power the Metrodome. Alas, there are no plans for windmills atop the dome (though wouldn't that be a great way to help motorists find the Dome?). The Vikings will join 200 other businesses and over 21,000 residential customers in Xcel's Windsource program, in which participants pay a monthly premium to support Xcel's development of wind power, like the muni-juice they'll start buying from Winona County next year.

What's next—Gardenburgers and salad at the concession stands? Oh, wait... already there.

Alas, you Vikings fans who find environmentalism unmanly will have to turn in your horns and purple jerseys. Maybe you can find a team more representative of your support for unsustainable extractive industries... but dang! The Oilers aren't around any more. Maybe the 49ers?

Brett Favre Signs with Vikings...

...and my world doesn't change one bit.

Eager reader Rod Goeman rouses me from breakfast saying I have to write just one sports post to discuss Brett Favre's signing with the Vikings. I tell him no I don't. I have nothing to say about sports that will add anything to the discussion. Besides, that discussion isn't any more significant than a discussion of who's starring in any other fall TV show... since really, the NFL is just another fall TV show.

But Rod insists I can just write the headline and let my readers do the rest, since everybody else apparently lives or dies by the vagaries of millionaire entertainers wearing shoulder pads. (I suggested Rod start his own blog on RealMadison.org, but he won't bite. I'll keep working on him!)

So here you go. Knock yourselves out. Brett Favre: Vikings' savior or sham? Hoists Vikes' first Super Bowl trophy or gets Theismanned in game 2?

Comment nymity policy still applies: if you have something you just have to say publicly about Brett Favre, put your name to it... or go write it on the bathroom wall when no one is looking.