I asked the Vikings rep why they did this and noted how much it had inconvenienced some people. He was apologetic, but made it very clear why this had happened. Scalpers outside the stadium were running wild, printing out the PDFs for say two seats a dozen times and selling those same seats over and over to multiple people. Although it was a buyer beware situation, it nevertheless created lots of headaches for the Vikes in trying to handle the aftermath. The team had always planned to eliminate the print at home option anyway, but several years later. They simply accelerated the process. The Gophers, I think, are the last team in town that prints the cardboard tickets, unless perhaps the Twins do. It's certainly wise to stay this way in football due to the Gophers’ older demographic and the unlikelihood of fraud due to the vast oversupply of tickets for most games. I could see Teague being tone deaf enough to have gone to all e-tickets, but Coyle now, and Maturi if he'd not retired, would not do such a thing.
