BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — When the Minnesota Senate approved state funding in 2012 for what became U.S. Bank Stadium, and unleashed the forces that conspired to misplace the Super Bowl there, one senator, Geoff Michel from Edina, said keeping the Vikings was a priority “so that our children and our grandchildren, yes, can wear purple.”
A high ideal, even if somewhat tongue in cheek, and worth every dollar of the $348 million the Minnesota legislature appropriated by a narrow vote for the stadium that eventually topped out with a $1.1 billion price tag.
You really don’t feel charitable mentioning it around here, but purple is not an easy color for most people to wear attractively.