Raw Video: Snow Causes Metrodome Roof Collapse

[bkbroncoboy]

What the heck was at 0:25

[Nascarking24]

That just summarized The Vikings season.

[btez31]

Indicitive of Brett Favre's career!

[DoktorStrangelove]

Sam Hurd's stash collapses the Metrodome...

[Hpiratesbasketball2]

@eric94827 I saw it to

[eric94827]

am i the only one who's see's something moving at 0:25?

[Mecalegend]

@eric94827 moisture on the lens.

[Mecalegend]

@eric94827 condensation blows 5 peoples minds apparently,

[StoneyBearr]

i remember this like it was yesterday, was at home in massachusetts and school was cancelled!

[Azvee]

They said they wanted an open roofed stadium. I don't see what the problem is.

[FallingInReverse11]

i dont get why FOX would leave their cameras on all night while recording

[stplowed]

@FallingInReverse11 Someone told the FOX crew that they'd never had so much snow on the roof and they weren't sure if it'd hold so FOX left a few cameras running.

[TheMourPictures]

Who is riding a horse on the sidelines in the first view?

[dangerjae]

@TheMourPictures I don't know who that was, but I bet they crapped their pants first.

[sapher2020]

Cheap construction materials used to build that roof!!

[MegaChampion24]

My hometown was part of that blizzard!

[hm008vaj]

00:12, close up of the roof says "Made in China"

[Cougar338]

@hm008vaj Stupid foreign goods.

[ItalianArrogant]

I never knew my jizz was that powerful.

[TheTlabrego]

Kirby Pucketts' ghost in the background in the first five seconds<3

[wpellegrene]

i told my mama not to go up on the roof

[Grizzliesfan100]

holly crap that was awesome i was rite outside wen that hapined

[Headshothorror4488]

@mygamer1 NO its the problem with soft roofs. Weather/snow happens normally.

[granturismo5101]

That is the problem with soft roofs on stadiums

[MyGamer1]

@granturismo5101 no its the problem of heavy snow on soft roof stadiums..

[chsxtian]

that's a lot of cocaine

[maddenslay1]

brett favre says: pants on the ground pants on the ground. God says roof on the ground roof on the ground

[teacherhater100]

Haha stupid Vikings. GO PACKERS

[blahethanblah]

.....and God said "Fuck the Vikings"....

[URNemesis108]

Too bad it isn't in Appleton,Mn.! Larry Johnson would have bought the building! XD

[MegaBball09]

Just like the Vikings season

lol

[yankees6840]

@lacrossedude6767 the giants won that game!

[vampirechick0001]

watch the sidelines at 0:02 there is something running

[DexOnerGGU]

@vampirechick0001 glad to see i wasnt the only one who noticed that! what do you think it can be?!

[pj0182]

yeah i seen somethiing running at 25 seconds in

[MistfulRain]

Vikes need new stadium!!!!!!!

[damndisplace07]

Thats God's way of letting them know that they need to get rid of Brett Favre.

[HiphopDesigns010]

puts me in mind of my college days. a night out drinking cranberrie vodkas, taking shots, & drinking more and more and more beer

[Smaderine]

Sounds like the TARDIS.

[jemiloverxoxo123]

Wow this looks like a scene in a movie!

[Fifty9Fifty808]

that was god pooping on the vikings field....

[codyr5]

@Fifty9Fifty808 i dont think that was poop...

[sethredxiii]

damn dome teams, play in the elements like real men!

[voloverum]

@sethredxiii Maybe you have never experienced a Minnesota winter. It's hard to play football when you are too busy dying from exposure.

[Unitor677]

its a ufo?

[dougiefresh55]

It looks like the MOTHMAN. Where ever he is there is havoc. Now he is in Egypt.

[titanicbuilder927]

@Guitar10163 it is the guy in the golf carts

[Giantsfan2104]

I guess Mother Nature is a Packers fan.

[XxTimEofDeatHxX]

there is something moving at :25-27 across the sideline

[12345zander]

Hey on the bright side,atleast no one was there!

[Shy1Smiles]

@nikkibaby4evax33 Yeah,but thier sayin its a camera,due to them being left on...so it couldve been,or idk...haha

[MrBlueBrewer]

its a man in a golf cart imo

[chollithedon]

it's a speaker from off the roof, still connected to a wire and sliding across the ground as the roof drags it

[chollithedon]

it looks more like a person running in fast motion then a horse, weird.

[DEMONshot666]

the roof caught a better play than the team

[SmoothCriminalAaron]

Cause when the roof caved in and the truth came out

I just didn't know what to do

[TheDurationPlusFive]

What the heck is that thing running in the background sideline at the very beginning? It just takes off running to the right! What is that thing, it looks like big dog or, as another user said, a horse...

That's creepy.

[narlycharley]

@TheDurationPlusFive I really don't know... That is really creepy.

[TheMrjonesOf2010]

chuck Norris came in to play

[demovidtest]

i love the cutting back and forth between the roof POV and the wide angle. it's like the dome collapsing in titanic!

[sethjr10]

i go to the toilet too

[deltafoopie]

There is something running on the sidelines...WTF

[starbee11]

holy crap theres a horse first 5 seconds

[Phulesmith]

its a field camera hanging on rope, automated camera

[11cory]

@kalehockey then it shouldnt have said courtesy of fox sports

[RS14KKILL3RS]

The People here in Minnesota knew it was going to collapse the day before, so i'm sure they did have extra cameras rolling ....  ;)

[drummerguy03]

OMG, i get it now.. the Vikings staff made a deal with the snow to cut a hole in the roof and collapse it, and all the while they had a snowman filming it..

you people are fuckin idiots, security cameras are supposed to be professional and high quality, especially at a stadium.. and a massive amount of snow isn't light either

whats next? the Saints made a weather machine and caused Hurricane Katrina to gain sympathy fans so they can win a Super Bowl?

not everything is a conspiracy

[TheAlpaguar]

@drummerguy03 YES! thank you! especially when these teams have hundreds of dollars put into these stadiums they need high quality video, image having a cheap ass camera from a million dollar company watching one of the most important things to the company. if it was low quality a person would be a single pixl on the other side of the stadium! its ridiculous how people think this is some plot to get a new stadium even though we have needed one for so long.

[SpydersByte]

Sorry if this has been answered but:

I see a lot of people asking how/why this was shot so late. If you read the Yahoo news article (that I can't link, sry), it will tell you.

Apparently the FOX camera man (or everyone) knew this would happen, so they set up an unmanned camera overnight. The article states, among other things, "This FOX crew had the foresight to put a camera on a leaky roof and it paid off with some of the best video you'll ever see".

[austinthebeast25]

WTF?!?!?!?!? In the first 5 seconds on sideline

[Ynot707]

@austinthebeast25

It was waldo

[nyphen414]

This is the biggest news the vikings will get this year

[daygona6]

I see the running shape to. My boyfriend thought it might be a camera moving but I don't think so, lol

[sp2001]

clearly fake

[ethan2010ize]

Ok, So if it was fake, why would the vikings move there game, you have to have a pretty dahm good reason to tell the NFL that? get back to me

[ARandomCanadian]

@ethan2010ize dude he's trolling

[jjcdude9]

Gutair10103@ no sir your not..

[Guitar10163]

am i the only one that sees a horse running in the backround on the sideline in the first 5 seconds?!?!

[bigtsape]

@Guitar10163 That's a human being. Video camera is slow & stretches out his image.

[vejet]

@bigtsape If I were the Vikes I'd sign that guy to a contract. Looks like he cleared 40 yards in about 4.3 seconds! Roof collapsing over you head... NFL linebackers charging after you... same shit if you ask me.

[Todd82TA]

@Guitar10163 Dude, I saw that too!!! What the hell? Either that or it's a crazy looking golf cart!

[litebrite757]

@Guitar10163 I saw it too... I thought it was just me.

[marhooba]

@Guitar10163 LOL

[theotherchrishardy]

@Guitar10163 ghost horse!

[bobzzz23]

@Guitar10163 I saw thatt and my mom called me reatrdedd );

[Testes1717]

they should clock that security workers 40 time and sign him up to play for Minnesota next season. Damn he ran fast.

[Itsmissbishforu]

@Guitar10163 i dont think thats a horse... 

[GATLINGHUNTER]

@Guitar10163 NO, ITS BRET FARVE, HE DID THAT.

[skaterorbater]

@Guitar10163 yEAH DUDE YOUR RIGHT I SEE IT

[wwf17]

@skaterorbater lol thats freaky cuz wen you look at it it looks like it jus magically appears there then starts runnin!

[jnght]

@Guitar10163 ...it's actually a stadium worker on a cart

[356porwa]

@Guitar10163 Yeah WTF is that about??

[Trainking922]

@Guitar10163 That was actually a man on a cart fleeing for cover!!!

[rach39415]

@Guitar10163 yh but i think thats just a man or a dog running. y would it b a dog? I dont know

[Smitherines161]

@rach39415 no. its a dementor!

[3210Ryan]

@Smitherines161 great call, nerd.

[Smitherines161]

@3210Ryan lol

[1808ian]

@Guitar10163 its like a golf cart

[mikehaack]

The TV cameras were left on, with the complete intention of catching any incident with the roof. The Snow was heavy and been a problem before. The Network was lucky to get the footage it did, but it was a playing a hunch. It worked.

[lpgft]

the words inflatable roof, dome, and collapse should not be used in the same sentence with today's technology. Obviously someone chose to save money and that person needs to be identified and prosecuted ! Lives could have been lost here in numbers. Where is the journalism ???

[divcrfc]

Im from the UK how conveniant that they needed a new stadium before this happened and why are the camaras on at 5 in the morning that is well a set up !!! You yankz think we are daft you staged 9/11 you cause wars and stage terror threats you are the new nazis and like the nazis will be defeated !!!! GOD BLESS THE UK THE QUEEN AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE !!!!!!

[chaosaxis]

Somewhere an engineer is getting reamed...

[5452347]

And why was the camera zoomed in on the inside of the roof at 5am. I guess a good answer would be that with that much snow, they felt something worth filming might be occurring.

[Desolator144]

Odd that they never considered a basically giant balloon/parachute roof might get snowed on once or twice IN MINNESOTA! Unbelievable! Must have also been Childress' idea because it collapsed just like the Vikings' season.

- From Wisconsin BTW

[DJ100674]

I saw this live on the Pregame Show. It was surreal... just like the weather is EVERYWHERE else around the globe. At least the fans got to see a REAL football game in Minnesota! go bears

[johnalex1986]

there is a guy on a cart i just saw him lol

[nicoletempting]

@TheKaziJV i thought so too haha

[nicoletempting]

@HotmoMma7383 if it results in free rent go 4 it!!!

[Grandamse1]

yeah something was hauling butt down the field. Bet the person has never had fear like that before!

[BebeMamaNbunny]

Theres only one word for this: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!

[hefalumpkin]

@HotmoMma7383 shut the fuck up and stick the dick in your mouth then

[italianmusicfreak]

?? 0:01 what the heck is that thing in the back right corrner??

[BebeMamaNbunny]

@italianmusicfreak yeah wtf was tht black thing dude? it looks fricking creepy!

[EthanThatCapitalsFan]

This is what you get when you play wussy indoor football, let's go steelers!!!!!

[1thanman123]

God what if there was a game.

[notfaux]

@jun27 this footage didn't even come from a security camera. it came from a camera owned by FOX.

[notfaux]

why was FOX running cameras in the stadium at 5 in the morning, 7 hours before the game was supposed to start?

and is it merely a coincidence that before this happened, the vikings had been trying to get taxpayers to fund the building of a new stadium?

"oh look..the metrodome collapsed..oh gee, that's too bad. guess we'll HAVE to build that multi-billion dollar stadium now, using hard-earned taxpayer money..."

[xAmberxPacificx]

@notfaux you're thinking to hard. it's mother nature.

[phishinit39]

Thats what they get for having purple as their main color!

[barkboingfloom]

That makes at least two arenas this year that have had their roofs demolished by weather. The other happened this summer, when a tornado ripped the roof off the Rimrock Arena in Montana.

[Agrobiz]

Apparently God hates the Vikings too.

[thenervenet]

That's what happens when you build the roof out of plastic wrap

[Christhecork7]

is it just me or is this animated?

[hiopretiop1928]

@Christhecork7

Dude.... this was on the news, and the Vikings and Giants game got moved cuz of this -.-

[hiopretiop1928]

@Christhecork7

Dude.... this was on the news, and the Vikings and Giants game got moved cuz of this -.-

Plus, this is Associated Press

[pablo12345th]

its not fake dumbass's the black thing was some dude in a golf cart. get things right 4 once in ur life.and childrenofcorn ur so fake and gay! how can this b fake

[childrenofcorn12]

thats sooo fake and gay

[swenger27a]

@childrenofcorn12 not fake it actually happened. The security cameras caught this on tape not Fox. This stuff happens in the north in winter. We usually have to shovel snow off the roof every year for the same reasons. Have you ever been to Minnesota in the winter?

[11cory]

@swenger27a No you're not very observant. Its fox cameras and it even says courtesy of fox sports. And what, Minnesota doesnt expect snow? You have to build those stadiums strong not weak. Especially if you get a whole lot of snow.

[11cory]

I find it very odd for fox sports cameras to be on at 5 am and one of the views shoots the roof. Especially when they want a new stadium. Come on people it doesnt make sense.

[willj78]

@11cory Conspiracy!

[p154831]

@11cory maybe because it was leaking and they thought it might collapse later?

[11cory]

@p154831 I think its good to question things. If they get a new stadium who do you think will have to pay?

[jasada09]

@11cory you are an idiot 

[11cory]

@jasada09 and who are you? I think you should grow up. Name calling is for children.

[thunderduck08]

@11cory Everything is a conspiracy to people like you. Next thing you are going to say is they piled all that snow up there just so they could destroy it for a new roof.

[11cory]

@thunderduck08 I think its good to question things. 

[TMNoob3]

@11cory

News stations have to prepare for upcoming games by setting up cameras the days before. Its not like they can set up all of that equipment in two hours :P

[11cory]

@TMNoob3 But that doesnt mean you have to turn them on

[mistahxkai87]

@11cory

yes makes no sense at all so staged they think people don't notice things when we are more smarter than they think. half of the people in this world never pay attention to lil things like that while some do. honestly if you never said anything i probably would have never thought about it

[11cory]

@mistahxkai87 Yeah same thing happened to me. Someone brought it to my attention so I looked into it and judge for myself. But you cant trust anybody these days especially the gov't. Technology is suppose to make our lives easier to the point where we dont have to work anymore. They just use technology to enslave us even more. We should be demanding that our tax dollars should be spent on ways to break us out of this monetary system!

[ColaGuy33]

Hey, AP. I saw this before.

[AbundifiyIsTheBest]

That black dot "running" across the field is moving too fast to be a person. I would say its a speaker or something being flung by the collapse of the roof.

[russdonruss]

@AbundifiyIsTheBest Its a stadium employee in a golf cart. he got the feeling he needed to leave and as he got into his cart the roof began to slowly collapse.. he floored it for the exit and made it out safely.

[RamereW]

did it collapse twice? cause they got a picture where it collapsed during a game, and this one of an empty stadium .

[mooseasaurusrex]

So ... I mean dot dot dot

Was the game called off?

[InuKun2008]

@mooseasaurusrex It was postponed, but then they moved it to Ford Field in Detroit as the Lions volunteered to host the game. All remaining home games for the season will be hosted at the University of Minnesota's outdoor stadium.

[natespringer15]

Funny how there were some many cameras at 5AM just watching the the dome. We have gotten over 4 feet of snow in Syracuse and the Carrier Dome is still holding up.

[BelieverinChristfvr]

At first I thought this was a freak accident caused by mother nature but why would Fox have there cameras pointed at the roof of the dome at 5am? Very odd and the Vikings owner has been complaining for a new stadium for a while the new Dallas stadium cost what 1 billion dollars give or take a few million maybe we are all witnesses to some kind of insurance fraud the the city of Minnesota is now accountable for on national TV speculation cant prove anything I say just a theory for now!

[limegreenbella]

@BelieverinChristfvr My uncle works there. Those are security cameras. Like nickk4283 said, the closeup is just a zoomed in version of a wider shot. Come on guys, stop jumping to conspiracy theories. :P

[masterofpuppets10893]

@BelieverinChristfvr Fox was already there for the Viking/ Giant game and they saw the roof starting to sag. They decided to leave the cameras rolling just in case something happened and it did.

[hockeyham]

See...even God thinks Brett Favre should retire

[enzomayol1977]

Ok there was some Fox editing. Now FOX sports posted this while everyone is wondering what that black dot was running across the sidelines..Search for "Metrodome man escapes" on youtube,,,,Totally staged!! Maintenance man they say!!

He's the one that planted all the angled cameras @ before the collapse!!

[enzomayol1977]

explain the black dot running across on the sidelines before the collapse??? nobody in the metrodome they say?? This snow collapse was staged by FOX news..Billions of dollars taxpayers will have to pay for new stadium..just like the new stadium being built for the Marlins..taxpayers paying the tab...Corp. control!! we need Gov. Jesse Ventura investigating this conspiracy this is in his backyard,,

[Liberator130]

Man, Vikings can't catch a break, can they?

[SeanyboyG]

@1stGenGamers: The people who set up the security cameras, probably. I mean, those are the kinds of things you tend to leave on all night.

[gosciu555]

Why...was anyone filming this at 5am? This is not security footage, its pro camera footage. Do they just film stuff all day? Lets see if there will be a new stadium because of this.

[redcomic619]

@gosciu555 Watching some Alex Jones I see...

[KO6147]

@gosciu555 Yeah, and why would a security camera be pointing at the roof? (0:10)

[gosciu555]

@KO6147

Yeah its very fishy. I'm not saying there is something going on for sure but they need to explain this.

[fonzieboy702]

@gosciu555 That's what I was thinking. I mean maybe it was for insurance purposes by the owner.

[cj122489]

@gosciu555 they film 24/7 so the engineers can monitor the roof at all times.

[gosciu555]

@cj122489

Is that true? How do you know? And do they film with security cameras or pro cameras or just high qulity cameras they have for this purpose?

[cj122489]

@gosciu555 I work with a guy who used to work for the vikings. He didn't say what kind of cameras that they use but they do use some quality cameras as we can see in the video. Since the pressure in the building to hold up the roof needs to be changed all the time I guess the engineers can monitor the situation from home or some somewhere off site location.