When the sun rose over Minneapolis on Dec. 12, 2010, something was missing from the city’s skyline: the white Teflon bubble of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

A weekend blizzard had dumped a whopping 17 inches of snow on the dome faster than the short-staffed facilities crew could hose off its 10 acres of surface area with hot water.

The roof buckled overnight before finally bursting about 5 a.m., sending chunks of snow and ice tumbling onto the field below, where the Vikings were scheduled to kick off against the New York Giants just a few hours later.

“It’s like a 100-year flood,” a Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission official told the Pioneer Press at the time. “You do everything you can to melt the snow, but Mother Nature has tricks of her own.”

That day’s football game was

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