The following year more heavy snowfall caused a tear in the roof just four days before the vikings were set to play the cowboys in the last game of the 1982 regular season.
Minnesota vikings roof collapse.
In 1981 more than a foot of snow collapsed it.
Metrodome roof collapses cameras capture the metrodome roof caving in from too much snow during a blizzard in minneapolis minn.
Dan marino considered playing for the minnesota vikings before retiring.
The metrodome s roof collapsed four times in the 1980s.
According to the christian science monitor the first collapse came in 1981 due to heavy snow.
The vikings played at the university of minnesota s tcf bank stadium for the 2014 and 2015 nfl seasons ahead of the planned opening of u s.
On december 12 2010 the much maligned metrodome finally gave out.
Minneapolis more than eight months have passed since that swirling snowstorm punctured the metrodome s roof rendering the stadium unusable and sending the minnesota vikings scurrying for other.
Minneapolis the minnesota vikings and new york giants will play on monday night in detroit after the metrodome s inflated roof collapsed in a snowstorm.
The game will kickoff at 7 20 on monday.
Bank stadium in 2016.
The dome s roof once against deflated and tore due to snow in the spring of 1983 postponing a minnesota twins game.