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REPORTS HAVE ED SNIDER SNOOPING AROUND THE METRODOME
Published January 12, 1998
Flyers & 76ers Chair Ed Snider met last week with the
Vikings' Wheelock Whitney and other members of the committee
appointed to sell the team, according to Sid Hartman of the
Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE. Whitney "refused to confirm the
visit," but Hartman wrote that Snider "did tour the
Metrodome and is a serious candidate to buy the club" (STAR
TRIBUNE, 1/10). In St. Paul, Charley Walters reported that
it's "a decent bet" that Snider "would form a management
company to operate the Metrodome if he can acquire the
Vikings." Walters: "If Snider, regarded in the professional
sports business as a fair and good operator with a 'regular
guy' reputation, were to purchase the Vikings, he could
manage the Metrodome, as well as its concession service,
under a 20- to 30-year lease" (PIONEER PRESS, 1/11).




