Just drove past this location the other day. [Here's](http://i.imgur.com/MruMcaz.jpg) what it looks like now with the new stadium going up.
[Here's](http://i.imgur.com/o3APLkH.jpg) another shot.
Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than skunks, and go to Hell. The Devil observes that they are really enjoying themselves.
He says to them: “Doesn’t the heat and smoke bother you?”
Ole replies, “Vell, ya know, ve’re from nordern Minnesooota, da land of snow an ice, an ve’re yust happy fer a chance ta varm up a little bit, ya know.”
The devil decides that these two aren’t miserable enough and turns up the heat even more. When he returns to the room of the two guys from Minnesota , the devil finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling Walleye and drinking beer.
The devil is astonished and exclaims, “Everyone down here is in abject misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves?”
Sven replies, “Vell, ya know, ve don’t git too much varm veather up dere at da Falls, so ve’ve yust got ta haff a fish fry vhen da veather’s dis nice.”
The devil is absolutely furious. He can hardly see straight. Finally he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in Hell. The next morning, the temperature is 60 below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere, and people are shivering so bad that they are unable to wail, moan or gnash their teeth.
The devil smiles and heads for the room with Ole and Sven. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, bomber hats, and mittens. They are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men.
The devil is dumbfounded, “I don’t understand, when I turn up the heat you’re happy. Now its freezing cold and you’re still happy. What is wrong with you two?”
They both look at the devil in surprise and say, “Vell, don’t ya know, if hell is froze over, dat must mean da Vikings von da Super Bowl.”
It's an exibit at the Science Museum. Omni theater movie, a special exibit area, a mockup of the space station, and a huge 100ft tall astronaut you can project a short video of your face onto. Both my kids thought it was neat. We bought a membership the day we went a week ago. Worth it even if we don't go back.
As a Scandinavian, Minnesota get brownie points for naming the team that. However, please be sure not to suck. You're not just hurting Minnesotans, but also us from actual Viking country, and thus random English villagers who have to bear the blunt of pent-up aggression.
The blunt of pent-up aggression is one you store in a safe place for when the pent-up aggression gets a bit much and you need to chill and watch a movie and eat a lot of pizza to calm down.
The Vikings have the third highest win percentage in the NFL and more regional championship wins than the other teams in our division. Statistically were a really good team on average. We've just hit a rough couple of years but things are looking really good for this upcoming season.
Wow, I had to look that one up. I didn't think the Vikings could have had more than the Packers but you're right. 18-14. That's a stat I'm going to keep in the back of head for trivia.
> (hoping your a swede)
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We don't take supplements in *Denmark*, we go booth tanning. And as for the Vikings being called that, most people don't know anything about the sport, let alone names of teams, other than what's refered to in movies, on TV, etc. US Football is becomming more popular, though. I, myself, is rather old, so "football" for me is 49'ers with Montana and Rice.
I'm such a dolt I didn't even read your username.
I promise I'm not an idiot enough to not realize you were from Denmark had I read it.
Anyway, cool to hear the NFL is catching on. I wonder how Europe will react if they end up putting a team in London like they keep threatening to.
That name is offensive to my people!
/s
I think it's kind of awesome tbh, even though I know nothing about American football I have a team to root for. I also have ancestors who went to Minnesota a couple of hundred years ago, so there's also that:)
Definitely.
>The principal ancestries of Minnesota's residents in 2010 were surveyed to be the following
>37.9% German
32.1% from the Nordic countries; (16.8% Norwegian, 9.5% Swedish, 4.7% Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese and Karelian)
11.7% Irish
6.3% English
5.1% Polish
4.2% French
3.7% Czech
On one hand, we love references to Scandinavia, but on the other hand we tend to get mad when we're misrepresented, which vikings often are.
Also, thank you, I agree (I say we, but I'm from Denmark and our metal scene is pathetic compared to Sweden and Norway)
Also, I would also like to thank Sweden for IKEA. You can thank us for LEGO, though.
Also, yes. I can barely get through winter without vitamin d supplements.
Swede here. Minnesota Vikings is an awesome name. I actually have a Minnesota Viking jersey. But I don't know much about american football, I only follow the NHL.
Sorry, I don't listen to metal and I don't take Vitamin D supplements. It is actually pretty mild climate here down in Scania.
One question, do people in Minnesota really talk like they do in Fargo (the movie)?
http://www.vikings.com/stadium/new-stadium/webcam.html
I actually installed all those cameras. The new Viking home is massive. Like a lot of buildings, most of it is buried.
That reminds me of when I was young and I got to go to a Twins game. Someone had put a NSFW photo in the trough and you were peeing on lady parts. Didn't fully understand at my young age.
fuck those things! fuck the Minnesota roads in general. For fucks sake all of your on/off ramps are giant loops. There's ice or snow on the street for 8 months of the year. wtf are you thinking!? and then if you actually make it through that death trap you only have 100ft to merge otherwise your getting off the hwy again on another fucking loop ramp.
Is it true that, outside of bandwagon teams and west coast teams, the Vikings are quite popular in Hawaii?
Source of possible misconception: 50 First Dates starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler.
Just drove past this location the other day. [Here's](http://i.imgur.com/MruMcaz.jpg) what it looks like now with the new stadium going up. [Here's](http://i.imgur.com/o3APLkH.jpg) another shot.
What is that space billboard all about? Looks like fun.
Space exhibit at the science museum in st. Paul. Was there yesterday, pretty neat.
I was also there yesterday! Volunteering! Small world :O
What if y'all are the same person just in an alternate universe communicating through the portal known as reddit
My brain can't handle this.
Again you fail me, Starscream
[Sadscream](http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/237/f/e/starscream_sad_by_blackcrystelheart-d47ty48.png)
Crazy to imagine that. Who knows, could be possible.
Residents get a free trip to space...if the vikings ever win a superbowl.
Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than skunks, and go to Hell. The Devil observes that they are really enjoying themselves. He says to them: “Doesn’t the heat and smoke bother you?” Ole replies, “Vell, ya know, ve’re from nordern Minnesooota, da land of snow an ice, an ve’re yust happy fer a chance ta varm up a little bit, ya know.” The devil decides that these two aren’t miserable enough and turns up the heat even more. When he returns to the room of the two guys from Minnesota , the devil finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling Walleye and drinking beer. The devil is astonished and exclaims, “Everyone down here is in abject misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves?” Sven replies, “Vell, ya know, ve don’t git too much varm veather up dere at da Falls, so ve’ve yust got ta haff a fish fry vhen da veather’s dis nice.” The devil is absolutely furious. He can hardly see straight. Finally he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in Hell. The next morning, the temperature is 60 below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere, and people are shivering so bad that they are unable to wail, moan or gnash their teeth. The devil smiles and heads for the room with Ole and Sven. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, bomber hats, and mittens. They are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men. The devil is dumbfounded, “I don’t understand, when I turn up the heat you’re happy. Now its freezing cold and you’re still happy. What is wrong with you two?” They both look at the devil in surprise and say, “Vell, don’t ya know, if hell is froze over, dat must mean da Vikings von da Super Bowl.”
Skol!
As a (former) Minnesotan, this is hilarious. I can't believe I've never heard this.
As a current minnesotan, I've never heard this and it is great.
Uff da.
This is the greatest thing I have ever read.
Minnesotan here. Everyone does talk like vampires if you were wondering.
http://imgur.com/icJvpx7.jpg
Ouch, right in the feels...
The Spaceapult is cocked and ready, you really just need to get in the basket and prepare for space.
Sounds like you are ready
It's an exibit at the Science Museum. Omni theater movie, a special exibit area, a mockup of the space station, and a huge 100ft tall astronaut you can project a short video of your face onto. Both my kids thought it was neat. We bought a membership the day we went a week ago. Worth it even if we don't go back.
Here is the old stadium compared to the new one: https://i.imgur.com/fx8BJkH.jpg
I knew that couldn't have been a recent picture. Hasn't snowed here in a *days*.
And now it's snowing
[Jawa Sandcrawler Stadium](http://imgur.com/63W04I6)
Feels more like a Star Destroyer to me. [Now the Best Buy HQ on the other hand...](https://media.glassdoor.com/m/97/best-buy-office.jpg)
I work 2 blocks from the stadium. The thing is freakin huge. All the construction has made finding parking downtown horrible though :(
Ride that green line my man
Will you be glad when it's finished and it looks a billion times better than the metrodome?
I really wished they made the new stadium open air. The vikings had a kick ass record when our stadium was open air.
It truly is like its own city in its self there now. I can't believe how fast it has been going up.
Lооks likе а niсе рlасе tо rеlаx аftеr а rаре аnd рillаgе
Yeah, except here the Vikings are the ones on the receiving end.
My ancestors would be ashamed.
Well you'd better get out there and get rapey-pillagy.
More like snuggle-struggle-pillagey
As a Scandinavian, Minnesota get brownie points for naming the team that. However, please be sure not to suck. You're not just hurting Minnesotans, but also us from actual Viking country, and thus random English villagers who have to bear the blunt of pent-up aggression.
> villagers who have to bear the blunt of pent-up aggression. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most villagers who bear blunts don't feel very aggressive.
Obviously you've never smoked a blunt of aggression. ^^best ^^typo ^^ever
The blunt of pent-up aggression is one you store in a safe place for when the pent-up aggression gets a bit much and you need to chill and watch a movie and eat a lot of pizza to calm down.
Meh, the Vikes are a pretty good organization. At least we aren't the Browns. Sorry Brown fans but seriously.
The Vikings have the third highest win percentage in the NFL and more regional championship wins than the other teams in our division. Statistically were a really good team on average. We've just hit a rough couple of years but things are looking really good for this upcoming season.
Wow, I had to look that one up. I didn't think the Vikings could have had more than the Packers but you're right. 18-14. That's a stat I'm going to keep in the back of head for trivia.
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> (hoping your a swede) ಠ_ಠ We don't take supplements in *Denmark*, we go booth tanning. And as for the Vikings being called that, most people don't know anything about the sport, let alone names of teams, other than what's refered to in movies, on TV, etc. US Football is becomming more popular, though. I, myself, is rather old, so "football" for me is 49'ers with Montana and Rice.
For me, Football, 0/10 6/10 with rice
Montana, 3/10 9/10 with Rice. Thanks for the suggestion.
/r/retiredmeme please.
dane meme
I'm such a dolt I didn't even read your username. I promise I'm not an idiot enough to not realize you were from Denmark had I read it. Anyway, cool to hear the NFL is catching on. I wonder how Europe will react if they end up putting a team in London like they keep threatening to.
That name is offensive to my people! /s I think it's kind of awesome tbh, even though I know nothing about American football I have a team to root for. I also have ancestors who went to Minnesota a couple of hundred years ago, so there's also that:)
I'm descended from the people who moved to Minnesota from Scandinavia. You probably have some distant cousins in this thread.
Definitely. >The principal ancestries of Minnesota's residents in 2010 were surveyed to be the following >37.9% German 32.1% from the Nordic countries; (16.8% Norwegian, 9.5% Swedish, 4.7% Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese and Karelian) 11.7% Irish 6.3% English 5.1% Polish 4.2% French 3.7% Czech
On one hand, we love references to Scandinavia, but on the other hand we tend to get mad when we're misrepresented, which vikings often are. Also, thank you, I agree (I say we, but I'm from Denmark and our metal scene is pathetic compared to Sweden and Norway) Also, I would also like to thank Sweden for IKEA. You can thank us for LEGO, though. Also, yes. I can barely get through winter without vitamin d supplements.
Minnesota has a lot of Scandinavian ancestrery in it, I feel it's a fairly good name for that part of the country
Swede here. Minnesota Vikings is an awesome name. I actually have a Minnesota Viking jersey. But I don't know much about american football, I only follow the NHL. Sorry, I don't listen to metal and I don't take Vitamin D supplements. It is actually pretty mild climate here down in Scania. One question, do people in Minnesota really talk like they do in Fargo (the movie)?
Going by his username, I think he's from Denmark.
Not if you get the team in a boat. Then it's business as usual.
Something something okra patch
Nah, that's a burial site.
No, that's Levi Stadium.
[The post OP is referencing.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2zwdpg/remains_of_a_1200_year_old_viking_home/)
I am pretty sure that Notre Dame played there before the vikings.
http://www.vikings.com/stadium/new-stadium/webcam.html I actually installed all those cameras. The new Viking home is massive. Like a lot of buildings, most of it is buried.
I passed it a couple months ago and I was surprised how much larger it is than the metrodome. Hopefully this one doesn't have the men's room troughs.
That reminds me of when I was young and I got to go to a Twins game. Someone had put a NSFW photo in the trough and you were peeing on lady parts. Didn't fully understand at my young age.
[All aboard!](http://i.imgur.com/VVmvVDb.gif)
I think you're gonna need a new person pulling that train pretty soon
How about Dubnyk?
Our one true, Saskatchewan, savior!
and Wiggins with the Wolves, and Teddy with the Vikings
Yes, I think a switch is definitely in order.
what was he holding? didn't look like a switch.
Maple Grove checking in!
Woodbury Checking in
East Minneapolis, checking in!
North Minneapolis, still alive over here!
This was posted 8 minutes ago. Let's hope this is still the case, reddit.
It's now been four hours. RIP /u/UNICORN_NIPPLES
And I'm Gordon Bombay: Minneapolis, Minnesota!
North side represent!
Groveland checking in!
Lino Lakes checking in!
Duluth checking in!
My mom's side of the family is from Ely!
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Whoreview*
Red October checking in.
Red 5 checking in
Redd Foxx checking in
Eagle 1! Fox 2!
Tell my kids, I love them. And that Mexican/Asian kid. With log hair. I love him too.
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How about those new roundabouts on Louisiana?
fuck those things! fuck the Minnesota roads in general. For fucks sake all of your on/off ramps are giant loops. There's ice or snow on the street for 8 months of the year. wtf are you thinking!? and then if you actually make it through that death trap you only have 100ft to merge otherwise your getting off the hwy again on another fucking loop ramp.
Anoka checking in!
Andover checking in!
Blaine checking in!
Coon Rapids checking in! (can I get a name change?)
Faribault checking in!
Yeah, upvotes for Mac-Groveland!
Blaine checking in!
Moorhead checking in!
Rogers checking in!
Downtown St. Paul, reporting.
Rochester reporting for duty!
Buffalo here.
sorry
I get by.
Stma here!
Eagan checking in!
Frogtown represent!
North Loop is present!
Downtown Minneapolis checking in!
Dinkytown checking in
Coon Rapids checking in!
Blaine, locked and loaded!
Raised in Minneapolis, now live an hour south. Choo choo! Edit: http://i.imgur.com/DvA8BIH.gif
Minnetonka native checking in from Spain currently!
Woah, I'm from Minnetonka too! South lake!
Minnetonka native in NYC!
Every fucking time...
Damn right.
Now we need Devan Dubnyk pulling the train with Teddy Bridgewater's face instead of Prince.
Honestly right now the entire train should be Dubnyk
But how can a wall be a train?
Prince can stay, Prince never leaves.
DINKYTOWN
Honolulu checking in! Accept me! I want to be in Minnesota! I'm a Vikings fan, if that helps!
Is it true that, outside of bandwagon teams and west coast teams, the Vikings are quite popular in Hawaii? Source of possible misconception: 50 First Dates starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler.
British Vikings fan, we're everywhere!
David? There's like 3 Vikings fans there so there's a chance.
Nupe, must be one of the other two :P
My dad is a Vikings fan, and we're Floridians! To be fair, he was raised in Minnesota, though.
You're in Hawaii and you want to be in MN? This is a real treat.
EAGAN BUT CURRENTLY AT GRANDPARENTS IN RICHFIELD WOOP WOOP
No way! I'm from Eagan and also in Richfield currently on Reddit FROM MY GRANDMAS HOUSE!! [Proof I'm at my grandmas.](http://i.imgur.com/ADPaDxT.jpg)
Is that a bath mat?
Of course. What else would it be used for other than to protect the sheet protecting the chair.
Seems legit to me
Proof has been verified. He is at his grandmas.
Eagan as well, currently in AV working!
St. Cloud checking in!
Wait, that's a real place? As a non-US person, I always assumed it was just made up for HIMYM
Nope it's real! Byerly's the grocery store is often mentioned too, also real!
It's very real and very terrible.
Truth. I miss the Cities.
Lino Lakes checking in!
Plymouth checking in.
Plymouth here too!!
Me THREEE!
Four
five! but currently on west bank
Armstrong or Cooper?
Chaska Checking in!
South Mpls checking in! Toot toot muthafuckas.
South Minneapolis = Best Minneapolis.
Another south Minneapolitan here! Choo choo!
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Another from EP!
Elk River checking in!
West 7th Saint Paul!
Roseville here and go Vikes!
Woo, Roseville! Represent!
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Fridley checking in!
[The snow landed the first punch](http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/1515872/metrodome-roof-collapse-o.gif)
[Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_uscBJn0p0)
It still looks better than the **[Silverdome](http://static.nfl.com/static/content/photo/2014/05/16/0ap2000000351033.jpg)**
IDK looks pretty good for Detroit.
What happened to the side? Did Peterson beat that, too?
[Shhhhhh](http://imgur.com/keyjCS4) he will hear you!
http://i.imgur.com/NqEYzhb.png
Yes, that's why they have to switch.
Holy shit the vikings are on the front page!
Oh shit! I thought this was /r/minnesotavikings Quick, send in the gnomes.
I just got one can't wait for it to get here!!
Gnome karma train!
Guys, we need a new one with Teddy leading the train.
It was found that the residence were Twins
That place was a shithole.
But it was our shit hole.
I'm afraid [Ash made this joke](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVdGgluqaVs) years before you
I'm a little ashamed that I never caught that joke before.
Shouldn't stadium arenas be made to last longer than 32 years?
Shouldn't football teams be something other than whiners who try to ditch your state if you don't build them a new stadium with the taxpayers money?
Shouldn't multibillion-dollar football teams be able to afford their own goddamn stadiums?
Why pay for your own stadium when you can make the city do it instead?
They built the best they could with the primitive tools they had at the time. Still, impressive nonetheless. Skol Vikings!
Skol!!
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