U.S. Bank Stadium has its share of architectural critics, but designers and everyone associated with the Vikings should be pretty excited that the heat can now officially be turned off.
When it comes to designs, the proposal put forth by the Washington Redskins for their new stadium — unveiled by CBS on "60 Minutes" — is now the beginning and end point when talking about wackiness.
The rendering of the stadium itself is a strange bowl-shaped structure, which is fine one supposes … until you find out that a channel of water encircles the entire place like some sort of moat.
Sort of a variation on an old joke: Two-thirds of the stadium is covered by water; the other third is covered by Fred Smoot.
Per the rendering, in this water people apparently will be surfing. And there will be a beach for all of those perfect late fall/early winter East Coast beach days.
Read Michael Rand's blog at startribune.com/randball. michael.rand@startribune.com.
