The_Philster
06-22-2003, 07:09 PM
Bolting the Dome?
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Vikings have a strong chance of breaking their lease at the Metrodome, which would cost the team roughly $5.5 million a year in penalties, the Pioneer Press reported Sunday.
Although Metrodome officials have called it a virtual impossibility, three law professors asked by the Pioneer Press to examine the lease that runs through 2011 say a damages clause gives the Vikings a much stronger lease-busting case than the Minnesota Twins, who had no such provision when a judge last year required them to remain at the Dome.
Vikings owner Red McCombs did not comment on the article. Whether the Vikings would test their case in court is far from certain....
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/news/2003/06/22/vikings_metrodome_ap/)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Vikings have a strong chance of breaking their lease at the Metrodome, which would cost the team roughly $5.5 million a year in penalties, the Pioneer Press reported Sunday.
Although Metrodome officials have called it a virtual impossibility, three law professors asked by the Pioneer Press to examine the lease that runs through 2011 say a damages clause gives the Vikings a much stronger lease-busting case than the Minnesota Twins, who had no such provision when a judge last year required them to remain at the Dome.
Vikings owner Red McCombs did not comment on the article. Whether the Vikings would test their case in court is far from certain....
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/news/2003/06/22/vikings_metrodome_ap/)