It started with $1 million in January of 1960.
After the Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles and left the Twin Cities without a professional sports franchise, a group of five investors clawed their way through negotiations with the NFL to land an expansion team.
And just like that, the Twin Cities were back to being pro sports towns.
It seems unlikely that anyone at the time could envision the exponential growth in value that would come to sports franchises in Minnesota.
Since the Vikings started playing, the state added the Twins in 1961, watched as the North Stars came in 1967 and went in 1993, and gained the Timberwolves in 1989, the Wild in 1997, the Lynx in 1999 and Minnesota United in 2017.