In addition to the big three Viking stadium proposals — for Minneapolis, Ramsey County and Shakopee — Tim Nelson of MPR reports that there were six other proposals submitted to Gov. Mark Dayton by Thursday's deadline.

They are creative, you might say, though obviously not feasible. (For that matter, are the other three?)

Nelson says the alternate submissions "include a proposal to fund the whole thing with a $4.2 billion dollar theme park in Eagan, and St. Paul resident Charles Hollom's offer to pay for the whole stadium himself, or rather, on behalf of the World Desert Reclamation Society. In either Moorhead or New Brighton, no less."

Another, from the Journal of American Rocket Science, "involves a mammoth pickup topper, a set of giant sawhorses, some railroad tracks and a fleet of Bobby and Steve's tow trucks."