Vikings vice president of public affairs Lester Bagley admitted today that the team's ownership "has concerns" about the safety of the Metrodome after the roof collapsed last Sunday under the weight of approximately 17 inches of snow. Bagley refused to talk about the team's desire for a new stadium but he responded, "Yes, yes," when asked if there might be concerns about the Vikings playing in the facility in 2011. That is the last year of the team's lease. "We're going to have to dig into that and get an honest assessment of that. This is Minnesota, it snows, we're a hearty bunch, we deal with it. Some people would say, 'Well, a couple of shingles come off the roof you don't build a new barn.' Well, the roof collapsed. We have concerns about the safety of the facility going forward. We'll deal with that after the game [on Monday] as well as we'll deal with the financial and economic impacts of what happened." Asked if there was a scenario under which the Vikings might not play in the Metrodome in 2011, Bagley responded: "No, I'm saying we have concerns about the safety and the viability of that structure going forward. We'll deal with that in the near future." The Vikings also are going to have to deal with the fact they lost millions of dollars last Monday by having to move their home game against the New York Giants to Ford Field in Detroit. It's likely the insurance for the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, which runs the Dome, is going to have to pay back the Vikings a certain amount of the revenues that were lost. "I think we'll sort that out once we get past the game," Bagley said. "We haven't really focused on it. There's, again, significant losses and we have concerns." Bagley addressed reporters at Winter Park in part because the team has taken a major public relations hit for how it has handled the ticket plans for Monday's game in TCF Bank Stadium, which seats about 14,000 fewer fans than the Metrodome. The Vikings announced plans on Thursday that makes this a general admission event event for all ticketholders. Of course, not all of them will get in if everyone with a ticket shows up. "We're trying to appeal to our fans to hang in there with us," Bagley said. "We got dealt a tough hand. Forty-eight hours ago, a little bit more, we found out we were not playing our game at the Metrodome. They told us on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Now we are here, we have some of the best ticket people in the world, the NFL, their leadership, their events people, to put together a plan that is the best we can do under bad circumstances. Granted, how do you get 63,000 into 50 [thousand seats]? People aren't going to be happy. [We're] just trying to appeal to our fans to hang in there with us and just try to consider the extraordinary circumstances in which we find ourselves. In a little more than 48 hours, we had to communicate a ticket plan. This is what we came up with as the best possible situation." Bagley also expressed his excitement about the Vikings playing their first outdoor game since the 1981 season. Although there has been plenty of talk that this game wasn't moved to another NFL stadium because of the Vikings' 50-year anniversary celebration that will take place this weekend, Bagley said that was not the case. "No, we were determined to have our game in front of our fans," he said. "We got killed in Detroit. We lost our home-field advantage. We lost significant revenues, and this will be a loss, too, in terms of revenues. But the fan experience, get in front of our fans -- the excitement is starting to build and that's where the hardest thing to do was to sort out the issue, and we did the best of our ability, and now let's turn our attention to the excitement of the opportunity." Bagley made it clear that no matter how well things go at TCF Bank Stadium, that venue is not a long-term solution to the Vikings stadium issue. "It's a great college football stadium," Bagley said. "It's got 38, 39 suites. It's got 50,000 seats and benches. It's not an NFL stadium. But for Monday night under these extraordinary circumstances, it's going to be a great experience. We're determined ot play our game in front of our fans, because our only other alternative, and you guys might not have liked our ticket distribution plan, but the only other alternative was to play somewher else. And we're not going to do that again. TCF will work under the extraordinary circumstances that we face. Long-term solution, it's not a long-term NFL stadium." Bagley did say the Vikings might have to "potentially' play at TCF Bank Stadium if a new venue is built on the site of the Metrodome.