Why should the federal government pay for a new stadium for the Commanders? Let Bowser and the local DC pols handle that. Tomorrow I’ll be driving past the abandoned and decaying RFK Stadium. If DC wants a new stadium, tear that down and build one there. I have to say they did a good job with Nationals Stadium. No reason they can’t do the same for a football venue. (The stadium in Raljon now called Northwest Field ((after the credit union)) was Jack Kent Cooke’s baby. It’s a bad location and a bad facility.)
Good. That stadium is a vanity project for Muriel Bowser. It should be killed.
If a stadium on that site does come to pass, no parking lots. The billionnaires can ride Metro like everyone else, or have their limos drop them off and come back to fetch them later.
No one who lives on Capitol Hill or in Hill East or Kingman Park wants a stadium surrounded by big parking lots that sit empty 350+ days a year. That is open land right on the river and on the edge of the city’s largest and most dense residential neighborhood. It should be used for parks and recreation.
Government should not pay for any stadiums be it city, state or federal. Those teams are private business for profit. If a team does not think DC is good let them move to another city on their own dime and tell DC, “we will leave if you do not subsidize us with a new stadium.” DC should then reply, “do as you see fit.”
The free market works. Subsidizes distort the free market to the benefit of those that should not benefit.
How about everyone just ignore them and not buy their brand until they go back to calling themselves the Washington Redskins.
Chalk up Win #1 for DOGE!
Maybe a denaming to like the Washington Red Skins would stir up things.
That’s good to know. I don’t want a penny of my tax money to be spent on the Washington Football Team. I am always rooting for the Football Team to lose to whomever they play.
Good!
Instead of creating more attractions to bring people into DC we should depopulate it.
Seat of congress, and the White House, but other than that make it a national park with no unconstitutional “Representation” or lobbying issues.
On a reshelving cart at a library I came across a book I leafed through once. It had statistical proof and background stories of many sports venues built with all or mostly taxpayer money (for the benefit of the team owners to profit).
None of them actually lived up to the hype of “so many jobs and so much tourist money flowing into the restaurants, clubs, memorabilia sales points and surrounding stores that the cost of building the arena will be made back.” Book said it never happened as promised and some (Kingdome, Three Rivers, others) get demolished later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcN4VrZk_5w
Good. We shouldn’t pay to re-build that damned bridge either.
Is the multinational censorship body in or out?
If they told the fans that for $1K donation they would change the teams name back to The Redskins and name the stadium Redskins Stadium they could get er done in no time.
As a Redskin fan since the 1960s, I say excellent news...
Need to build the new Redskins stadium in VA...
Stay out of those two communist cesspools DC & MD (where I live)...
Congressmen have no clue.