What Is, and What Should Never Be (Vikings edition)

As the stadium rocking lads from London observed: it's to a castle we'll soon be taken. And here's what it will, and what it probably WON'T won't look like. We painstakingly extracted these images from the architectural and design service bids to the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority. They picked HKS, and if you read through the hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents released after the decision, you can kind of see why.

But we'll spare you the heavy lifting. Here's the eye candy -- or what we could carve out of the paperwork, anyway.

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