MINNEAPOLIS -- Detroit's Ford Field will host the New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings game Monday night, moved from Minneapolis after the Metrodome's inflatable Teflon roof collapsed under the weight of snow from a heavy storm that passed through Saturday.

The game, with a 7:20 p.m. ET kickoff, had already been postponed from Sunday after the Giants' flight was diverted Saturday to Kansas City as Minnesota air travel was shut down.

"At this point I would play this game in a parking lot," Giants defensive end Justin Tuck said in a text to ESPN.com's Matt Mosley on Sunday.

Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission chairman Roy Terwilliger said he's optimistic the roof can be repaired in time for the Vikings to host the Chicago Bears in their next scheduled home game on Dec. 20, giving workers eight days to replace three damaged panels and re-raise the Teflon roof.

The roof collapsed about 5 a.m. Sunday.

The inflatable roof of the Metrodome collapsed early Sunday morning after a snowstorm dumped as much as 20 inches on Minneapolis. AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt

"We've worked particularly close with the Vikings over the last two or three years on plans and designs and steps and obviously it can't help but call attention to the fact that the facility is 28 years old," Terwilliger said. "It's one of the oldest facilities in the NFL. There's a problem when we run this risk of not being able to play a game, because it's a huge economic hit to the team. But the policymakers will handle these issues."

A large section of the roof lay torn and whipping in the wind in the stadium's north end zone later in the day, and snow that had fallen through the rip covered much of the field. Maki said workers were working with the manufacturer of the roof material on plans to repair and replace damaged pieces. He said there didn't appear to be any other damage to the stadium.

"There were no injuries, which we're thankful for," said Bill Lester, the executive director of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission.

On Sunday morning, six workers could be seen on the concrete rim of the stadium, shoveling off snow. The roof, a white bubble criss-crossed with cables holding it in place, could no longer be seen from the street.

A leak on the roof had formed Saturday as snow accumulated, ESPN's Ed Werder reported.

Ticket holders for the game will be admitted and given preferred seating along the 50-yard line, the Vikings said in a statement. Free general admission tickets will be available at the Ford Field box office beginning at 9 a.m. ET. Refunds will also be given to original ticket holders.

Aramark, the Vikings' food preparer, is donating all the food prepared for the postponed game to a food shelf.

Aramark general manager Corey Hedrick called it "an easy decision" to give all the prepared food to Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Second Harvest Heartland.

The University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, about five miles from the Metrodome, was considered briefly as a site for the game, but it was shut down for the winter and would have needed several days to prepare for an NFL game.

Removing snow, figuring out how to cram 64,000 Metrodome fans into a 50,000-seat stadium, and the fact that the Giants did not bring any cold-weather gear with them from New York for what would have been a brutally frigid night game combined to make that site problematic.

The New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts also said they were willing to help.

"It's Detroit. Good call. Makes sense," Colts owner Jim Irsay wrote on Twitter.

Minneapolis got 17.1 inches of snow during the storm that started Friday night and ended around 10 p.m. Saturday, said James McQuirter, a National Weather Service meteorologist. He said the storm was one of the five largest to hit the Twin Cities. Some surrounding communities got more than 21 inches of snow, he said.