Minnesota Stadium Roof Collapse

The stadium had grown old by that year.

Minnesota stadium roof collapse. The vikings played at the university of minnesota s tcf bank stadium for the 2014 and 2015 nfl seasons ahead of the planned opening of u s. That is until 2010. Metrodome roof collapses cameras capture the metrodome roof caving in from too much snow during a blizzard in minneapolis minn. One thing the new roof won t do according to everyone.

According to the christian science monitor the first collapse came in 1981 due to heavy snow. The game will kickoff at 7 20. Bank stadium in 2016. The roof which was made of fiberglass and fabric was supported by air pressure.

Everything was going as normal during the construction for the stadium expansion under a worker noticed a buckle in a key part of the support structure. It collapsed four times in the 1980s and had to be re inflated despite being built in the same decade. Husky stadium collapse in this incident from 1982 a part of the university of washington s husky stadium collapsed while under construction. Frigid air whipped through a desolate metrodome on monday as crews began inspecting the minnesota stadium s nearly three decades old roof after it collapsed under the weight of heavy snow that.

After nearly a foot and a half of snow accumulated on top of the home of the nfl s minnesota vikings the roof caved in. That roof was held up mostly by air. The metrodome s roof collapsed four times in the 1980s. Fox news minneapolis the minnesota vikings and new york giants will play on monday night in detroit after the metrodome s inflated roof collapsed in a snowstorm.

On january 18 2014 the metrodome roof was deflated signaling the beginning of demolition work. The metrodome s fiberglass roof infamously caved under the heft of deep snow in december 2010.