Note To Billionaires: Buy It With Your Tax Cut! Get This Economy Going!

The next time the Vikings or Twins owners come around asking you for your hard-earned money to build them a stadium, take a hard look at the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans.

Lessee, at #88 we have Carl Pohlad with a net worth of $2.1 billion. Sure makes it tough for Sid Hartman to pull on the heartstrings when he brings up the sob story of Pohlad losing $15 million dollars per season.

Then at #224 we see Red McCombs (real name "Billy Joe" - I kid you not!), who has a net worth of $1.1 billion. This guy is a real piece of work. He bought the team five years ago and almost immediately began scheming to get a new stadium. (Insert used-car-salesman joke here.) But hats off to Red as he has restored "Purple Pride." Under his ownership, the Vikings have both choked and been destroyed in NFC title games. That is only one step away from their seventies glories of choking and being destroyed in Super Bowls. Alright, Billy Joe!