Maybe They Can Call It “Sears Stadium”

We have never had a team playing at the highest level in a major professional sport in our city. Yes, I know we have the Wilds and used to have the Norsemen, but while those teams played at what seems to be the top level in their sports, they did not play one of America’s three major team sports and the 1884 baseball team played in the Union Association team which was not deemed “major league” until after long after its demise and it never played any home games, anyway.

Noting the disappearance of Saxon Ford and the financial difficulties of Sears and Roebuck, City Hall Scoop ["A Blue Light Special for Zigi Wilf?"] today has a suggestion for putting a Vikings stadium at their locations.

They cite the proximity of the proposed Light Rail and the Capitol.

Although I would be opposed to using any Saint Paul or Ramsey County taxes to build the thing and while I would miss the Sears store a bit and would likely be disturbed by the traffic tie ups big events would cause, the idea might be worth looking at. There would be/might be problems for nearby residential area to the west and north, but perhaps they could be addressed.

And if it were built as a domed stadium, it would give us three domes almost in such a nice small area, a good theme for postcards and local web site home pages. Let’s see . . . Capitol, Cathedral, Stadium. Which one do you think will come down first?