With four minutes to play and trailing 2410 to Arizona on Sunday, the Vikings' season looked like it could be over. A loss probable since the team had never come back from 14 points down in less than 4 minutes would have dropped them to 26. QB Brett Favre's message last week that a "very storybook ending" was still possible for the Vikings seemed hollow .When an owner grows tired of a facility and leaves, guess who picks up the tab? New Jersey still owes $110 million on the old Meadowlands home of the New York Giants and Jets, and when both teams moved to their new $1.6 billion, privately financed stadium, they got a huge tax break. According to the Wall Street Journal under their old agreement they paid $20 million a year in tax revenues; now they will pay only about $6 million a year. Know what New Jersey's deficit is? I'll tell you: $36 billion..

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