Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome

I can see why this place has to go.
The city appears to have purchased the basic model of domes. I came here and sadly my wonderful Philadelphia Eagles were less than wonderful and decided to give the then 4 – 10 Vikings a Christmas gift. I didn’t think the sound was overwhelming, but getting out sure was. Smallest hallways ever! It took about 10 minutes to snake through the tight walk way to get to an exit.
Despite my depression my team still went to the playoff while the Vikings search for a new head Coach and will play outside in the cold for a year. Glad i saw it before it became past tense, but glad i don’t have to go back.

I haven’t been to more than a handful of stadiums, but I really don’t understand what the gripe is about the stadium.
The security line was pretty quick, there were beer and food options all over the place, the employees were friendly, and it looked like you would have pretty good visuals no matter where you sat. The bathrooms were typical stadium bathrooms.
You can tell the dome is older, but it holds so many memories and it’s sad to see it go… But the new stadium does seem like it’s going to be pretty amazing!

The Dome is a bit antiquated. The sight lines for football are okay. Best part is that it keeps the fans out of the elements. Too bad not much else can be said about it. I sure hope that when they build the new stadium that men don’t have to feel like they are going to the watering trough when they have to go to the bathroom. It reminds me of the Minnesota State Fair.

Really great Stadium sorry to see it go might be a bargain basement dome but it still home to me! Go vikings skol

I’m not a fan of taxpayer money going to stadiums, but the metronome badly needs to be replaced. The halls are ridiculously narrow. They are packed with people the entirety of a football game. The food is absolutely disgusting. Expensive and terrible. There aren’t enough bathrooms. Worst stadium ever. Lambeau is way older and still much easier to get around. I hate the metrodome!

Went to the Vikings game tonight against the titans… people were really rude around my 5 year old son and were throwing paper airplanes onto the field, complete lack of respect even after the came over the loudspeaker and asked people not to. This was my first game and will probably be my last one here…

I’m gonna miss you HHH Metrodome. A horrible place to watch baseball, yet I saw Nolan Ryan, Kirby Puckett and George Brett here. So many great memories. And football in this place was a bore too. So much fake noise pumped in I think Ditka was right to hate on the place. Yet my team played here, and broke my heart under your white roof. The open running and rollerblading in the «RollerDome» were worthy of 4 – 5 stars. The «dollar a dog» nights were worthy of 5 stars. The old Rally Room’s 2-​for-​1 beers in the second and seventh inning was worthy of 5 stars (try and find that kinda great deal at Target Fld!). And the time I had tickets to Guns n Roses and they cancelled as I drove to what would have been my only real concert experience inside your cement walls… except for the time Mom and me drove up to see a Twins game for the singular reason that Ted Nugent was to play the National Anthem on his guitar, solo, on the pitchers mound, before a meaningless Twinkies game in the late 80s. I’ve since changed my love to like of the Nug because we see politics is a very different light from one another these days. He was great on the mound that night. I want to give you a 1 or 2 for baseball, but in totality you deserve a 4 or a five for all the events you hosted over the years and all the fame you brought Minnesota (like a boring Superbowl, 2 world series wins, a lot of boring basketball, monster trucks, etc). Metrodome, I’m gonna miss you a lot.

Ew. Gross. Sad.
Issues with the Metrodome include:
Hard to walk around without literally bumping into a million people and spilling your beer
Bathrooms — no need to really describe
Boring and «untasty» food options
Ready for a new stadium. Now.

There is no nice way to talk about the Metrodome. it’s a shit hole and everybody knows it. The bathrooms are few and far between. The food options are something out of a cardiac surgeons worst nightmare and something only Honey Boo Boo would put in her face. the beer is a joke. The place is ugly inside and out. Thank god for the Railgating with the food trucks outside the dome for every home game or I would go hungry before a game as the restaurant choices downtown before a game are as bad as the food inside… unless there is a hidden gem somewhere that I’ve missed.
Can’t wait for the new stadium. If it’s even half as nice as Target Field it will be amazeballs.

I stand with the handful of people who are rating the memories over the stadium itself. It’s true, the Metrodome is falling apart at the seams and in many ways can be compared to a giant pile of crap, and now, it’s worse when you compare it to the gorgeous new architectural blonde bombshell that is Target Field. However, regardless of what it looks like or how uncomfortable the seats are, my childhood memories are bright and a signifcant part of that joy can be attributed to the days and nights spent watching the Twins and the Vikings.
I am blessed that my father’s seats were so fantastic and that the games were at my fingertips — I’m lucky that for one night I got to take my cousin’s place as the ballboy for the Twins and watch the game from a folding chair 20 feet away from homeplate –I am giddy that even though the Twins are in last place and the Vikings are… a fickle mistress… I can’t sit in those seats without getting crazy when the noise level goes supersonic and the ground shakes like the whole place is going to come down.
The Metrodome may be a sh*thole to many, but that just makes the memories shine even brighter. We don’t go for the building, we go for the show.

This review is for baseball — thankfully for the Twins they don’t play here anymore.
Another park that had seats stored in the outfield for football games, which made playing baseball there look like an after thought. Also, the light color of the dome had to be tough for the players trying to spot flyballs.
Concourse area was pretty spartan — not much going on. Food was fair at best. Access from downtown was great — quick cab ride and I could’ve walked it had I wanted to do so.
Compared to Shea and Oakland’s Coliseum, it’s the best of the worst.

I am kinda torn on this review. I mean, I really like the overall feel of the Metrodome. For instance, I loved how loud it got. I loved how comfy it was (temperature wise) to watch a game. Plus we found parking easy and it was pretty easy to get in, even with the added NFL security.
Still, the bad is pretty glaring and it starts with the tiny seats — so small and narrow (I mean aren’t Vikings huge? How do they fit in these tiny ass seats???) It did not make for a comfy game as the time ticked away. And the whole place had a tiny old feel (this is good and bad). We found OK food, but the beer prices were OUTRAGEOUS!
It was OK for one game, but I can’t imagine paying for season tix here or going here on a regular basis. It needs an upgrade. It is showing its age!

After the initial awesomeness of being in a football game that was climate-​controlled and had a roof, there was a bunch of stuff I didn’t like about the Metrodome. I went back and forth on 2 to 4 stars and settled on 3 finally.
What I liked:
*covered!
*65 degrees inside!
*the food was good
*We went on the first wanding day and I thought it went super-​quick.
*I like that they’re in the middle of downtown. Tons of parking
What I hated:
*the seats were incredibly small. I’m 6′ tall and there was no comfortable way to sit without my knees just digging into the seat in front of me
*the drink prices were outrageous
*We were in the 10^th row on the first level and had to walk down like 200 steps (slight exaggeration) to get to our seats. Getting up and down to get food, bathroom, etc, was insane
*the men’s bathrooms were just gross. ‘Nuff said.
*the hallway where all the food/​drinks was seemed incredibly tight and was like walking thru a crowd of zombies who don’t pay attention.

Remember when it snowed 22 inches in one storm and the roof collapsed? That was an indication that it was time to let the place die.
This place is unclean, unkempt, and take it from someone who has been on the field for an event, it’s NOT fun trying to get ready or actually be on the field.
The bathrooms: F
The food: F
The steep stairs down into a 2 foot tall railing followed by a 30 foot drop into the stands below: F
The fact that there are NO good seats outside of the corporate Suites: F
The blast of air that pushes you out at the automatic door? A+
The Dome: Get’s an average of F– tear that piece of shit down would ya?!
Oh, and for all those people saying «spend my money on a new one,» shut the hell up would ya!!! The Twins got a new stadium, but the Vikings should have to pay for their own stadium until they start winning enough for me to care about football again. They suck.

The best part about the dome is that I can post this review and the picture of the chicken sandwich. I think the dome is actually making me dislike the Vikings more than Brett Favre.
Please Minnesota, use my tax dollars to put something new up (same location please!) so that my ‘hood stays a little less of a ‘hood!

While browsing recent reviews on Unilocal I came across a negative review of the Metrodome, when looking at the Metrodome’s reviews I found tons of negativity. I just gotta say I’m a little ashamed that people could be so cruel to an old friend that has given us all so many great memories.
I do like watching baseball outdoors better, but personally I don’t think the Dome is a bad place to watch football. It’s a big place and I know of no other stadium of this size that doesn’t have some bad seats in it, I mean come on! It’s actually a very unique experience going to an event under an inflated roof, and as a kid going here was magical, and where else do you get blown out the doors? In my childhood years my friends and I even built a large inflatable tent once using bed sheets and multiple fans, pretending it was the Metrodome.
I lived near the Dome for 4 years and go by it almost every day to my job Downtown, the Chicago Avenue area there is so nice to walk by, and the plaza is awesome. I’d extremely miss having it there. The only thing I’ve never understood is why hardly anything exists in the immediate area, it’s mostly all parking lots. I mean I’ve actually had to meet people for lunch at the H.C.M.C. Hospital Cafeteria when I lived in that area, that’s how bad it is! I suppose that was one of those positive neighborhood impacts of a stadium constructed in the 80’s, everything gets torn down for event goers to be able to park thier cars.
If the Dome was renovated and the surrounding area was developed a bit more this would be an awesome venue. Sure beats the proposed Arden Hills location, it really makes alot of sense to build a stadium way out in the middle of nowhere. I’m sure lots of people would just love exploring the surrounding area and all kinds of places will be built around it, yeah good luck with that guys! Please, be a little easier on our Dome, and if it must go at least rebuild on the same site and do some much needed area rebuilding from the attack of the parking lots!

The best part of the Metrodome is the gust of air that pushes you out while leaving. A lackluster stadium to begin with, the Metrodome has become one of the «used to be good» malls. Just like a mall that gets forgotten as a new one is built, the Metrodome never needed the new mall… it just wasn’t cared for. Not that it was ever good to watch baseball in in the first place.
The food is mediocre and the local beer nice. The walkways around the dome are less than spacious and cater to clueless loiterers.
I will not miss the dome… only Wally the beer man.

I visited this locale about 2 years ago to watch my Detroit Lions play the Minnesota Vikings. The parking is ridiculous… I mean you can’t park anywhere for free… and the parking structures and lots want to charge anywhere from 15 – 35 bucks. I see why both the Vikings and Twins want a new stadium because this one is awful. Now don’t get me wrong the seats were not bad… but the sight lines are horrid. The sound is decent as well. but when the fireworks go off in there that is a bit unpleasant for fans… even for a dome.
I am happy the Twins got a new stadium… now they need to build one for the vikings. I did have a good time at the game… but I immediately knew I wouldn’t be back. I really hope the vikings get a new stadium… because I am surprised more players have not gotten hurt on that ancient turf. Good luck… and remember to Eat, Drink, and be Merry my Friends!!!

This place is a shithole. It doesn’t look half-​bad on TV, but…
There’s virtually NO parking in the area (thankfully we were staying near enough that we walked over), and just walking around the dump is a challenge because there’s not much room and tons of human traffic for your typical Vikings loss. The scoreboards are vintage late 80’s — the replay board is so microscopic, I would have needed the Hubble telescope to see anything on the pathetic thing. The climb to the upper reaches of the upper level was SO steep, it was like scaling Mt Fuji. The field looks weird, like some off-​brand of artificial turf, though that may be partially due to the horrendous lighting. It’s half-​dark in that dump and no wonder, they don’t even turn on all the lights.
No wonder the Vikings want a new stadium — this place is woefully out of date and was never state-​of-​the-​art, even back in its day.
Brak is granting the Metrodome 2 very generous stars — only because I’ve been to Candlestick and the Oakland Coliseum a million times, and they make the Metrodome actually seem half-​decent.

This review is for baseball only. I wanted to give it two stars for how horrible the stadium is for watching baseball… but the fans were just too into it which made it an overall great baseball viewing experience.
I attended a game here in 2009, and thought the fans were great. Even better was that at the end of the game, they allowed fans onto the field to walk around the warning track and then let the kids run the bases. Since I’m a kid at heart, I took the opportunity to walk onto a real MLB field and take some photos (see my photos). It was a great opportunity… and earned this stadium the 3^rd star of my review.
I’ve now been to the new Target Field … see my updated review of that stadium