I'm not a big fan of petitions but this is a rare case where I think we need as many signatures as possible. Even I signed this one. The Minnesota Vikings have been made aware of how lethal their glass design will be to migrating birds by Minnesota Audubon. They've chosen to ignore that and it's a big problem. This isn't a bird watcher vs football thing. This is a common sense, "let's be reasonable" sort of thing. Please sign it. Please share this blog entry. Please spread the word to your friends. Please Contact Governor Mark Dayton via phone 651-201-3400 or email to tell him to make the Viking's Stadium incorporate bird safe glass. Audubon is curious about what response you get, feel free to let them know.

Dear Minnesota Vikings,

I'm not an activist. I'm not someone who hates football. The League is one of my all time favorite tv shows. Granted I'm not someone who is as gung-ho as other football fans, but I get the importance of a hometown team and can have almost as much fun at a football game or Super Bowl party as I can at a bird festival. You guys are spending a crap ton of money to build a lovely stadium less than a mile from the Mississippi River. As a fan of giant modern marvels, I really dig that you brought in that crazy huge crane to build the new stadium--right on! But there's a problem: the finished stadium will have 200,000 square feet of glass that birds have trouble seeing when they're migrating. You know about this and you are even aware that you could use glass that poses a much lower risk of killing thousands of birds. The Mississippi River and that is a MAJOR migratory flyway. How major? Check this out: