Weekend Travels

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 This past weekend I got the chance to travel up to Minnesota and go to a Vikings game.  I was born a Vikings fan and I've been to a couple games in Detroit but I've never been to a home game in Minnesota.  The Vikings stadium is one of the newer ones in the NFL with its first year of use being in 2016.  They had to build a new stadium because the previous one infamously had its roof collapse due to the amount of snow that gathered on top of the stadium.  

We drove 9.5 hours to Minnesota on Friday and stayed until Monday morning.  We explored the Twin Cities on Saturday and then went to the game on Sunday.  It was a really cool experience to be in that stadium.  It is generally mentioned in the conversation of loudest NFL stadiums and after being there I would agree because my ears were ringing after every defensive third down play.  The Vikings were up comfortably in the first half but got stagnate in the second half allowing the Jets to come back.  The Vikings ended up winning on a game sealing interception with seconds left on the clock.  They are now 10-2 and second place in the conference with 5 weeks left.


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