[Allegra]

I remember seeing a game way back when (early Eighties maybe) and the crowd in RFK was bouncing the section of the stadium and and down in unison!

I think they stopped doing that after there was a tragedy at some structural collapse where a lot of people were killed.

Oh yeah, I remember fans doing that and also trying to make the stadium sway. Crazy days.

I went to FedEx Field once - my sister & brother in law got us four tickets in the Club Level for a Houston Texans vs the Redskins in 2002 game when I was up visiting for Christmas. My dad came too and I was the only Texans fan there. (The fans were nice - we were brand new.)

What a dull, cookie-cutter stadium FedEx Field was. It was no match for the lively and colorful RFK Stadium.

[rlmorel]

I agree! Now I remember-you used to be a Redskins fan! I remember someone on Bender2’s weekly threads calling you a “DeadSkins” fan! Or at least, I think it was you...:)

I started watching NFL football when my family moved back to the States from Subic Bay in 1971 and we lived near Andrews AFB. Those people were crazy about the Redskins back then, and me, delivering the Washington Post on the base I was on, got caught up in it!

[TBP]

Jack Kent Cooke built what was originally Jack Kent Cooke Stadium before the naming rights were sold to FedEx, with no public money. The left hated him for it.