Time flies, huh? I’m sure most people reading this remember the Air Force game from 10 years ago. Despite having been over served at Sally’s before the game I remember making it into my seat just before Bud Grant took the mic for the pregame ceremony. If you want to relive the game, I wrote about that a couple years back. However the part that get’s forgotten about was the long road to getting the dang thing built in the first place.
The Gophers spent 27, fairly miserable, years in the Metrodome. And while it took 3 years to build an on campus stadium, the process to get the shovels in the ground really began back in 2000.