Here’s one way to build a new Minnesota Vikings stadium: sell public stock in the team. (Hey, it worked for the Green Bay Packers.)

And here’s another way to help raise funds for whatever will one day replace the Minneapolis Metrodome: install slot machines at the airport.

Will either of those proposals ever fly? History and National Football League rules would say no, but that isn’t stopping state Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis. She plans to present both ideas in the next legislative session or earlier, if Gov. Mark Dayton calls a special session to deal with the Vikings stadium.

Kahn, who is serving her 19th term in state office, acknowledges she doesn’t hold the standing at the Statehouse she once did, now that there’s a Republican majority in both the House and Senate.

In 2005, Kahn proposed a “community ownership” model to fund construction of the Minnesota Twins baseball stadium in Minneapolis, also based on a stock sale allowing public ownership of the team. That idea never went far, and state lawmakers instead paved the way for the baseball stadium to be funded by a Hennepin County sales tax instituted by the county board.

Would selling stock in the Vikings raise the necessary funds for stadium construction? There’s precedent, but not much: The Green Bay Packers are the only publicly owned NFL team, because they were “grandfathered” into the rules decades ago. They have more than 100,000 stockholders.

NFL ownership rules prohibit any team other than the Packers from having more than 25 owners. Her proposed legislation would require the governor and Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission to work with the NFL to change the rules.

She figures the funds from the stock sale could go toward a new stadium while still allowing the Wilf family to retain the 30 percent ownership required of managing owners under current NFL rules.

Would Vikings owner Zygi Wilf ever give up that much control of a team he bought six years ago?

A call to Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley was not returned. Jeff Anderson, the team’s director of corporate communications, referred all questions to a spokesman for the NFL.

“It should be noted that in addition to the 25-owner limit, the league has a preference, as a policy matter, for consolidated ownership groups with as few members as possible. Such consolidation minimizes the potential for intra-club disputes,” the league responded.

The team has backed a $1.1 billion stadium project on an old Army ammunition plant in Arden Hills. The Vikings have pledged more than $420 million. But local and state governments have not finalized ways to fund the remaining $650 million needed.

It’s no secret that Kahn is no football fan, and those close to her say she’s not likely to fight for this concept as hard as she did for the Twins’ stock sale bill, which drew 34 authors.

Kahn also has been proposing for years that the state install casino-style slot machines at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, somewhere within the secured area,to reap money from fliers. She plans to do so again next legislative session.

“I’ve put the bill in a lot, and I’ve talked about it a lot, but it’s never gone anywhere,” she said.

In 2004, the Minnesota State Lottery pegged the possible net proceeds from 250 airport slot machines at $27 million per year.

“All gambling is a regressive tax on stupidity, but if you put the gambling in the airport, it would be a progressive tax on stupidity, because you have people with higher incomes at the airport,” Kahn said. “Plus, 80 percent of the traffic at the airport is from out of state.”

Could her proposal be tweaked to raise money for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium?

“If someone wanted to,” said Kahn, who said she’s neither opposed to nor pushing for that aim.

The slot machines would be administered by the state lottery, she said, which requires 40 percent of the revenue to go toward a state environmental trust fund. That leaves $16 million to spare for the state’s general uses – or perhaps for the Vikings stadium.

Compared to the $1 billion figure that gets thrown around for Vikings stadium construction costs alone, Kahn acknowledges that $16 million isn’t much.

“One of the reasons I think this has never flown is because compared to what everyone else is talking about; it’s not enough money,” Kahn said.

Frederick Melo can be reached at 651-228-2172.