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Fans cheer during a football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions at at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome on Dec. 29, 2013.
Fans cheer during a football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions at at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome on Dec. 29, 2013.
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The Minnesota Vikings will soon be playing in a brand new stadium. But before the new Minneapolis complex can go up, the team’s current facility, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, has to come down. As part of the demolition, a planned explosion severed the roof’s cables Sunday, letting the dome fall to the stadium’s ground,

the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports

. Pro tip: The explosion doesn’t begin until 0:43, and even then, there’s only about 1 seconds of demolition action. The 31-year-old Metrodome will be replaced by a new $1 billion stadium due to open in 2016.