Minnesota Vikings: U.S. Bank Stadium unofficial light show

U.S. Bank Stadium, the future home of the Minnesota Vikings football team, put on a beautiful light display during a test last night in Minneapolis.

Lately, there have been many great announcements about U.S. Bank Stadium that should make Minnesota Vikings fans every excited about attending future football games inside the billion dollar facility. And while some of the announcements were new additions to the building, other announcements put the announced features on display.

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For example, recently the team at U.S. Bank Stadium worked to install the turf in the field, put the yardage markers on, and announce the modern art horn that will be on display outside the facility. But one of the coolest features was finally on display late last night.

Shown in a video shared by the official Minnesota Vikings Twitter account, one of the coolest things about the new stadium is the ability to change the appearance of U.S. Bank Stadium based on the color of lights inside the building.

Here is that video showing off some of the cool lighting effects as well as a little bit of surrounding Minneapolis things on:

For a different angle of this fantastic display of lights, check out this fantastic video from Jason Douglas on YouTube:

Here is an explanation of what exactly was being tested inside the future home of the Minnesota Vikings from the KSTP ABC website:

"“There was an unofficial light show late Thursday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Vikings said testing was being done on the video boards inside the stadium, which emitted colorful light through the windows and ETFE roof.”"

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It seems as though new, cool features of U.S. Bank Stadium are being announced every single day an fans of the Minnesota Vikings should be excited about many of the things this new facility offers over other football stadiums like TCF Bank Stadium or the Metrodome. Still, this is a pretty cool step in getting the state-of-the-art facility ready for football during the 2016 NFL season.