US Bank Stadium: Fans concerned about tailgating situation

U.S. Bank Stadium looks like it will be an amazing facility, but fans have concerns that there won’t be any place for tailgating.

If you build it they will come, but where will they tailgate?

Fans knew this might be an issue right from the start. Construct a new downtown facility with a bigger footprint than the Metrodome and a lot of those tailgating spaces would have to be erased. Simple math.

According to Monday’s StarTribune piece, the math is working out more-or-less how fans expected.

As of today the Vikings have a very uphill battle to secure tailgating space around U.S. Bank Stadium ahead of its opening in six months, and even if they win the battle there still might not be sufficient…