During the halftime performance the stadium was filled with purple lights as the Minnesota Orchestra and gospel group The Steeles performed Prince’s “Purple Rain”.
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After the Minnesota Vikings’ win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, players on both teams remarked how loud U.S. Bank Stadium was for its first regular-season game. And Goodell – whose 11th-hour trip to the Minnesota State Legislature proved pivotal to the approval of a funding bill for the stadium in April 2012 – issued praise to Vikings ownership at the culmination of their 11-year effort to reach this point. In fact, you get the impression Boone would like the stadium – capacity, 66,813 – to be a little more library-like. At times, it might have been too loud.
“It’s loud, for some reason, in the stadium”, Boone said. “There’s a lot of times where we can’t hear the centre”. We could barely hear the snap count today a couple times, could false starts cause guys didn’t know when the snap was going you know. How about that? I mean it was great and they were you know when the defense was up it was phenomenal. “When the offense is up, shut up; just shut up”.
I mean, it absolutely is a coincidence and the only supernatural force at work here is Rodgers’ ability to scan the field and find an open receiver, but it’s a fun coincidence.
Hey, Boone, maybe they were just a little excited about getting to watch the Vikings in a stadium that wasn’t the freakin’ Metrodome. “They were loud”, Zimmer said in the same report.
The brand-new, fixed-roof stadium that supposedly pushes visiting-team crowd noise back to the visiting team’s sideline also is creating some problems for the home team.
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The Vikings hit the road to play the Carolina Panthers next week before returning home Monday October 3rd to face the New York Giants.
