More Than 100,000 Fans Attended Thursday's Baseball and Football Games

The numbers are in.  Here are the attendance returns for Thursday night's games that featured the Twins, Saints, Vikings and Gopher football team.

There was good news at Target Field when the Twins finally snapped a 13 game winning streak against the Chicago White Sox.  The attendance was 20,329.

Over at CHS Field in St. Paul, the St. Paul Saints held on to beat the Winnipeg Goldeyes 1-0.  Another sellout in Lowertown that drew 7.961.

Just off the Green Line at TCF Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus, the Gophers opened their 2016 season against the Oregon State Beavers and shook off the early game cobwebs to beat the Beavers 30-23.  The game was not a sellout, witnessed by 44,582.

And the big attendance winner that night was the Vikings.  Though it was a preseason game and the first since quarterback Teddy Bridgewater tore his ACL, many fans packed US Bank Stadium.  It was a sellout crowd of 66,262.

OK.  Get out your calculators or find your calculator app on your smartphone and add up the attendance for those four games and you'll come up with the total of 139,134 fans who attended the four games.  Add in the total for high school football, soccer and volleyball where attendance figures aren't published and the number would be in the range of 150,000-200,000 total attendance for what was a busy night in Minnesota sports.