Posted on 09/03/2019 12:47:12 PM PDT by C19fan
Snyder was a follower of NY Yankee owner george steinberg. It took steinberg two decades to figure out that the game was not about him.
snyder may never learn.
So much so that you don't even know his name.
My own opinion, having done work for the Yankees under Steinbrenner, is that he didn't change, his Press did. People were always on edge when he was in the house.
ML/NJ
He’s tried everything.
Maybe he should change the name to the Native Americans and get it over with...................
Three stadiums in 20 years? Trying to break the Atlanta Braves’ record?
There are a lot of problems, not just the product on the field. FedEx Field is difficult to get into and get out of, and has way too much capacity. It was built for the nineties Redskins who were winning championship. Allen.... how does he still have a job? No
Playoff wins since 2006.... a brief high with RG III in his one season before he got hurt. Chased Kirk Cousins out of town. And now the Case Keenum era begins. Its going to be another long season in DC.
The best football is on Saturdays anyway. Pro players in both football and basketball are too self-aggrandizing for my tastes. You might as well log into unsocial media and look at nothing but selfies. :)
Yep, that's when the English Premier League games are on.
I gather that the team would like to come back to DC, but I frankly don't know where they could build unless they're willing to dispense with big parking lots. I live within easy walking distance of RFK and, from a Capitol Hill perspective, it would be naïve to think the Redskins could simply build bigger and keep everything the same. The Anacostia corridor is coming back to life. It is going to be a premier residential and entertainment area all the way from Buzzard Point to Bladensburg. About half of the former RFK North parking lots have already been rebuilt into a youth sports complex and playground for little kids. What to do with the rest of the parking lots, RFK stadium itself and the Armory and DC General (now closed) sites is a big question. But devoting most of the acreage to vast swathes of asphalt parking lots -- this right along the river -- would be too stupid for even DC to consider. Just downstream, the Nats and DC United stadiums are doing just fine with minimal parking. They rely primarily on metro access. The question is whether lard-butt NFL fans could accept such a solution. You can't tailgate on metrorail.
Then there's the name issue. DC's political class doesn't like "Redskins" and Snyder doesn't want to switch to "Ashamed to be American Snowflakes." I applaud Snyder for sticking to his guns on this. He shouldn't allow himself to be bullied. Unfortunately the current Virginia pols may be just as dictatorial about the name. My guess is that the team will stay in Landover for the foreseeable future.
You: Yep, that's when the English Premier League games are on.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Association football simply ain't close enough to the original mob football like American football is. :)
It will move to ashburn once the new metro opens.
Screw the race pandering NFL.
Hasn’t the entire area been absorbed by the Borg? (Cloud storage)
The largest English association football stadium comes it at...number 16. Why? Because the demand for association football just isn't there like it is for the Iron Bowl, or the 3rd Saturday in October, or Bama/LSU, or Michigan/Ohio State, or Auburn/Georgia, or the Largest Cocktail Party, or the Red River Rivalry.
Later on in the article, it became pretty clear that Allen is a problem, and I'm not all that convinced that Jay Gruden is the right guy. Without a good GM, the coach and players are not going to compete against another team with better coaching and better players.
Look at the teams who draft in the early in the rounds every year; and those who are always picking at the end. You would think that the bad teams would get the better players out of college, yet year after year, you see the same teams win and the same teams lose. Every now and then there's a little movement, but for the most part, it's pretty consistent.
That's what good management does for a franchise.
Note that the Cleveland Browns resurgence might be credited to Baker Mayfield, but the guy that picked him was former Kansas City Chief GM, John Dorsey. He's a winner, as long as their owner, Jimmy Haslam doesn't meddle.
Places like Buffalo and Green Bay are on the outs. NFL wants big TV markets, nice indoor stadiums, and every dollar spent to pass through their hands. Buffalo has a very large tailgate contingent. Outside parking lots, bands, BBQs, taking place on private property surrounding the stadium. Like a college game. I'm not sure how many other stadiums still have that.
Jerry Land is the worst, it costs an arm and a leg to park, there’s no public transportation to the “Stay-Jum”.
I thought they had to change the name to the Washington Snowflakes.
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