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Giants-Vikings game postponed until Monday Night (1 Viewer)

They said it's not 100% confirmed, but right now, the Giants and Vikes have agreed and the plan is to play in Detroit on Monday night with a 7:20 ET kickoff and it will be available on Sunday Ticket.

 
Sundog said:
SayWhat? said:
I'd have to think that it may be nearly impossible to have this game at TCF Bank Stadium on the U of MN campus. We got DUMPED on yesterday, and there has to be an unbelievable amount of snow in that stadium which would have to be removed in basically 24 hours. I may be wrong, but I think that's unrealistic to expect. I'm sure the Vikings are concerned with lost revenue if this game goes outside the state of Minnesota, but if it's going to be tomorrow night I'd lay odds that it will be in Detroit or Indy.
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Game time temperature at TCF stadium would rival the 1967 Ice Bowl, coldest game in NFL history...
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Technically - I think this was the Bengals/Chargers play-off game in the 80's
 
NJ said:
They said it's not 100% confirmed, but right now, the Giants and Vikes have agreed and the plan is to play in Detroit on Monday night with a 7:20 ET kickoff and it will be available on Sunday Ticket.
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Confirmed per NFL Network.
 
for all intents and purposes this will be a home game for the Giants. I can't see Lions fans in the seats rooting for their division rival.

 
Who is going to really go to this game anyway? If it's Packer fans (being that Green Bay is there right now) then the smarter ones would be rooting for the Vikings to win.

 
FYI, ESPN just reported the game will be carried on Fox, who's also showing the GB/DET game today.

ETA, looks like Fox will only broadcast the game in the NYG/MIN markets - link

So like the above poster said, those of us not in NYG/MIN markets should get it on Sunday Ticket.

 
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Eviloutsider said:
Who is going to really go to this game anyway? If it's Packer fans (being that Green Bay is there right now) then the smarter ones would be rooting for the Vikings to win.
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How are they going to fill 65,000 seats in one day? There may be a huge ticket giveaway.
 
Now this is where the NFL could set up some kind of PPV option if you don't have the ticket. I would probably pony up $2.99 or so to watch this game speaking I have 3 players involved in this mess.

 
Except that even god doesn't want to look down on this team. Except maybe to check in on his son, Adrian Peterson.
 
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So...anyone with tickets (E-tickets, obviously) they can't use feel like passing them on to Vikings fan? I'd love to go, but afraid that if we just show up before the game all the tickets will be gone. PM if so, be willing to provide some compensation if desired.

 
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Using the past to look ahead to what to expect from the crowd.

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Nothing like free tickets / Students, relief fund benefit from 'MNF' road trip

October 28, 2003|By Ira Miller

(10-28) 04:00 PST Tempe, Ariz. — 2003-10-28 04:00:00 PST Tempe, Ariz. -- Fans began showing up at 10:30 Sunday night. By the time the free ticket windows opened 18 hours later, the line snaked for nearly a mile, and the route was littered with enough beer cans and bottles that an enterprising student could have financed his education with the revenue from recycling.

Perhaps this is what it was like in the early days of the NFL, when teams barnstormed the country. They let in everyone for free at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State campus, passed the hat to help the Southern California fire victims, and "Monday Night Football" took on the atmosphere of a county fair.

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A near-capacity crowd of mostly 20-somethings, much younger than the typical NFL audience, showed up for the transplanted Dolphins-Chargers game. By standards of the Arizona Cardinals, the usual NFL inhabitant in these parts, it was a bigger, louder and more enthusiastic crowd, too.

More rowdy, too. Beer sold briskly at the concession stands. Fights broke out repeatedly in the stands and there was at least one major brawl just outside the stadium during the game. One man was escorted out when he ran onto the field in the middle of the second quarter wearing only boxer shorts, and Milt Ahlerich, the NFL's director of security, said police arrested "more than 10" people.

Nevertheless, Ahlerich called the night a "success" because, on just 24 hours notice, a Monday night game was moved from San Diego, more than 70,000 tickets were printed, 73,014 people got one for free, and about 65,000 actually came into the stadium.

Oh, yeah. Three first-half touchdown passes by Brian Griese, who started in place of injured Jay Fiedler and playing for Miami for the first time, led the Dolphins to a 26-10 victory over the Chargers.

No one knew what to expect, of course, because an NFL game never had been moved like this.

"My first thought was that there'd be no people here, like a studio show, " ABC's John Madden said. "Then I started thinking about it. It's right on a college campus. It's free. And Monday night NFL is in town. So people are going to go to it."

Free and the NFL do not usually appear in the same paragraph. The average gate for a league game is $3.8 million.

With no admission charge, fans were left with more money for beer and charity.

"Everybody was real generous," said Cardinals kicker Tim Duncan, whose 39- yard field goal in overtime beat the 49ers on Sunday and who was one of five Arizona players helping collect donations. "It was neat to see. We had two or three people come through with 50s and 100s. At least six out of every 10 (were donating), a lotta 20s, lotta 10s."

About $200,000 was donated for the fire victims, the Cardinals said.

The first three people in line Sunday night were Arizona State students Paul Natale, Scott Conley and Mike Thompson, who brought a couch, had pizza delivered, slept in their trucks, and, for diversion, threw a football in the parking lot or watched DVDs on a laptop computer.
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Limp Ditka said:
Berman: The first Monday Night game in Detroit in 10 years, and.... the Lions aren't playing in it.

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For the local fans, that's probably the most exciting part.MNF in Detroit? Free? Don't have to watch the Lions lose? Sounds like Christmas came early in Detroit.

Not to mention good seats to watch the sad, pathetic downfall of a hated legend. Either that, or witness the streak end. It's a win either way.

 
That is going to be a hostile environment for the Vikings. Filled with Lions fans and leftover Packer fans.

 
So all tickets to the original game will be refunded right? Even if you go to Detroit you still get a full refund and better seating then the rest of the GA slobs?

 
Just called Ford Field and the lady said all tickets were gone. Seems hard for me to believe. Anyone confirm?

 
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