Volunteers Needed to Remove Snow at TCF Bank Stadium
by GopherNation on Dec 15, 2010 10:52 AM CST
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PrintAs most of you now know, the Vikings will be hosting the Bears on Monday Night Football and the game will be played at TCF Bank Stadium. The University needs volunteers to help remove all of the snow. Here is the info...
The University of Minnesota has released information for volunteers interested in helping with snow removal at TCF Bank Stadium in preparation for Monday night's Vikings-Bears game.
Volunteers will be accepted at 8 a.m., Noon and 4 p.m. beginning Thursday. Volunteer help will be accepted at those times on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. No volunteer help is being requested or accepted for Wednesday. Volunteers should gather outside the Lincoln County entrance to TCF Bank Stadium at the times listed above.
Volunteers must be 18 years of age and are encouraged to wear proper outdoor attire. Shovels will be provided, but volunteers are welcome to bring their own shovel if they wish.
So grab your shovels, put on your snow pants and get over to TCF to help shovel. This is a rare opportunity and it should be a unique event for the U of Minnesota.
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So, I'm an outsider here, obviously
But this popped up in my RSS feed and certainly perked my attention. Does anyone else find it very strange and vaguely offensive that the Vikings, who are members of the most wildly popular and profitable sports league in the world, are having the University of Minnesota ask for volunteers to shovel snow in the bitter cold so that they can play football for profit this weekend? Rather than, you know, going to a labor agency and actually hiring people to do it? Paying a bunch of guys $10 per hour would be a drop in the bucket for them and would also prevent them from looking as sleazy and greedy as they do now, IMO.
PP-TPW.
The Only Colors
actually...
the Vikings released something say that they are going ot pay people to come shovel snow.
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by GopherNation on Dec 15, 2010 12:14 PM CST up reply actions
Eh. I think it’s kind of classless of them for it to have come to the idea of volunteers, but I intend to head over there this weekend and do some shoveling. I have neighbors that I don’t really like, but I helped them dig their cars out Saturday night.
I am guessing they have enough paid shovelers to get the snow out in time for the game
but if they can get volunteers to help get it out faster, then why not?
I would be ALL OVER this opportunity!
I wish I lived closer to the Twin Cities. It would be awesome to look back and say I helped clear TCF Bank stadium for a Monday Night Football game between the Vikings and Bears. I bet this is the only time a Monday Night Football game has been played in a college-only stadium or in a replacement stadium. I challenge The Daily Gopher bloggers to look this up and report back. Have a good time shoveling and I wish I could join you!
by Gopher Fan from Wisconsin on Dec 15, 2010 1:19 PM CST reply actions
Um, yeah
Or you could not be outside in freezing temperatures all day, working your ass off for no money, getting zero recognition for your services except maybe a pat on the back, and still say you helped out. Unless you’re directly affiliated with the U or the Vikings, you’ve got to have no job and absolutely nothing better to do in order to volunteer for something like this. At $20/hour, those people would be underpaid for shoveling snow.
Journalism. Enhanced.
Well that didn't take me too long
I knew this wouldn’t be the first. The Seahawks playing at Husky Stadium from 2000-01 was my initial guess, but let me accept your challenge.
2002 – October 7 – The Packers defeated the Bears 34-21 at Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois.
A Google search would’ve gotten you this information in 25 seconds, just like it took me. You don’t need to be a blogger to use a search engine.
Let me reply to my own reply
I just named you a college only stadium. Here is a college only, replacement stadium.
In 2003, the Dolphins defeated the Chargers 26-10 at Sun Devil Stadium, due to the wildfires in Southern California.
Nice.
Thanks for looking and even including a little snarky remark at the end.
by Gopher Fan from Wisconsin on Dec 15, 2010 2:22 PM CST up reply actions
do it yourself!
:)
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by GopherNation on Dec 15, 2010 2:51 PM CST up reply actions
I'm with you....
…except that I hate you because you are from Wisconsin…but aside from that, I’d go do it for sure (I kid!).
I’d enjoy it, meet some people, have some fun, and get a good workout. Looking back would be fond as well.
That's pretty funny
or am I wrong in assuming you’re joking? Somehow,the thought of providing slave labor for some billionaire whose goal in business is to steal my tax dollars to build an even bigger stadium that I can’t afford a ticket to enter is fundamentally wrong. But that’s just me.
amen
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Dec 16, 2010 9:05 AM CST up reply actions
Oh well...
Good thing the posters on this site are not representative of the students or fans of the Gophers. They have had so many volunteers that they had to turn many away. In five years those who volunteered will have memories and pictures of them shoveling out TCF Bank with their friends and other Gopher fans (like jimipig says).
The rest of you will be able to sit back and say that you “stuck it” to the man. That’ll be fun, right?
by Gopher Fan from Wisconsin on Dec 16, 2010 12:24 PM CST up reply actions
As P.T. Barnum once said:
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” Perhaps 1 or 2 of them may have a back injury to remind them of their folly,as well.
...and another thing:
I am NOT opposed to volunteer-ism,per se,but at least have the sense to put it to good use. For years,I opened my home and farm to at risk youth who fell through the cracks of the foster care system. I did this at my own expense,with no state or county subsidies,although I did work with county juvenile court systems,and went “by the book.” I derived satisfaction in the thought that I was actually helping people who were unable to help themselves,not providing discounted help to people who can easily afford to pay handsomely for it,as well as looking for an even bigger “welfare for the rich” handout in the near future. Enjoy your hollow sense of accomplishment. Who knows,maybe some day,you may develop an actual sense of values.
I don’t mean any offense GFfW, just that if I’m going to volunteer, it’s going to be for something other than helping the Vikings. Volunteering should be for people who need it – just a shame those folks they had to “turn away” weren’t putting their good will to better use, I say.
Now if you’re paying me (since the Vikes can afford to pay), that’s a different story of course – that is, if I were 15 years or so younger ;)
I'm feverished, or the way you want to spell it
by plinytheelder on Dec 16, 2010 6:21 PM CST up reply actions
Bears sign Simoni Lawrence
This just in. The Bears, on Tuesday, signed former Gophers linebacker Simoni Lawrence to their practice squad, according to the Chicago Tribune. OK, so this can’t possibly be a coincidence, right? They’re obviously trying to gain some sort of advantage by having a guy on their team who once played at the stadium where they will be on Monday night??? What the hell is going on here? Not sure what purpose this serves for the Bears, but feel free to let the conspiracy theories fly.
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except for the fact that
he never had to play in the snow there and I highly doubt vikings fans are going to now pause to reconsider who they want to win.
No one is getting Rubio's rights unless they pry them from our cold dead fingers.
by TheEvilProfessor on Dec 15, 2010 4:16 PM CST up reply actions
This is awesome
I’m ALMOST sad that I won’t be able to watch the game. But lucky for me, I’m in Costa Rica, suckas! Oh, and my hacienda has internet so that I can still keep tabs on everything Golden Gopher related. Thank goodness.
I have not been keeping up…how much has it snowed there? I was watching (Austin, TX) the Gophers basketball game last Saturday against EKU and they kept talking about the blizzard there. How many inches did you guys actually get up there?
the Twin Cities got around 20 inches
largest snow fall since the 1991 Halloween Blizzard and one of the five or six biggest snowfalls on record.
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by GopherNation on Dec 15, 2010 2:52 PM CST up reply actions
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