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Fans, Friends and Family:
Time is running out on this legislative session to pass a bill to keep the Minnesota Vikings here in Minnesota once and for all! Currently there are 4 bills with verbiage circulating the Capitol. We as fans, citizens and constituents need to step up and let our state leaders at the Capitol know we need legislative action on the stadium issue NOW!
With your help, and the help of your friends, the Vikings can get a bill passed before the session ends in May.
If we don’t pass a bill now, it will be another year before we have one last chance to try again!
There are 3 things you can do right now, RIGHT THIS SECOND to make a positive impact:
- Mark your calendars for the eRally that will be broadcast on www.SavetheVikes.org Tuesday, April 20th starting at 6 PM.
- Email your legislative leaders by clicking on www.savethevikes.org/huddle-up/ and fill out the form to locate and send an email to your Senator and Rep.
- Copy this into an email and send to all of your family, friends and coworkers asking them to do the same 3 things.
We need to mobilize now and send a loud and powerful message to our state leaders! With that we are holding a live video eRally to achieve the goal of keeping the Vikings in Minnesota and are asking you to spread the word and participate.
The live video eRally will broadcast online at the SavetheVikes.org website. Hosting the event are Timberwolves in-arena host and captivating television personality Natalie Kane, along with SavetheVikes.org founder and fan/advocate Cory Merrifield.
The pair will urge fans to email Minnesota’s elected officials and tell them it’s time to take action on a new stadium to keep the Vikings here.
Over the course of the eRally, Merrifield and Kane will interview an array of public figures from all walks of Minnesota life. Special guests include:
- Racino legislative leaders former Senate Minority leader Dick Day and Representative Tom Hackbarth.
- Vikings Assistant PR Director and Minnesota Momentum Executive Director Jeff Anderson.
- Vikings legend Bob Lurtsema.
- Metropolitan Sports facilities Commission Chair Roy Terwilliger and Executive Director Bill Lester.
- Former Minnesota Gophers Jeff and Nick Tow-Arnett.
- Local actress and model Nicole Lauren.
- More to be announced soon.
The event will be filmed live from Token Media studios in Minneapolis and produced by local producer Josh Sundby.
The eRally will also feature a web forum moderated by SavetheVikes.org co-founder Brian Ashbaugh.
Please, don’t close this article without emailing your state leaders and forwarding on to your family, friends and coworkers!
Cory Merrifield and the SavetheVikes.org team
Founder and author of SavetheVikes.org. Born and raised in MN, Cory has been a lifelong Vikings fan. Season ticket holder, stop by and see him in section 218! cory.merrifield@savethevikes.org 
I very support for new stadium now last chance need pass. I said Gov tim pawlenty know this lot fan want vikings stay here on minnesota own our state forever! Go viking! Still alive! Go need pass new stadium! Stay forever!…
If Los Angeles really wants an NFL team so bad, why don’t they just go for an expansion team? Roski puts up his stadium, then the NFL awards him and his group a team that they build from the ground up. Casey Wasserman puts up a stadium downtown by the Chavez Ravine, the NFL can award him and his group the other expansion team that they build from the ground up. One team can go in the NFC and the other in the AFC and bring the league up to 34 teams, and to balance out the schedule, an extra bye week. So each team will have two byes. If the NFL proposes to go to an 18 week schedule that arrangement would work.
The Vikings belong in Minnesota it’s a case closed matter. 50 years of a rooted fan base that covers Minnesota, parts of Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Iowa, and Illinois. I really believe that Wilf will get his stadium through, because now with the Gophers Stadium up, they’ve got a place to play while the construction of the new stadium goes up. And if Target Field is big enough dimension wise to put a football field in there, that would work. That gives the construction crews that built those two stadiums to get the bids going for the Vikings stadium. 50 years of series with Green Bay, Chicago, and Detroit. The NFC North is fine the way it is. The NFL would be wise to leave that alone. If they’re going to move a team they should move Jacksonville first because of blackouts.
Minnesota has a good established football following and that should be left alone.