GREAT - a stadium for what? Baseball, football, soccer - WHAT?
And by "the District" they mean "taxpayers".
I thought we were done with this woke garbage. Those are the Redskins. My grandfather smoked Commanders.
Bring Redskins back otherwise I couldn’t care less.
The REDSKINS, they mean?
So, they’ll the Washington Foreskins will find new fans in DC?
It’s actually kinda amazing to see a team actually have to put up some of the money to get a stadium built. Usually they just threaten to leave, and the city does whatever it has to do to get it built.
Three billion for a new Colosseum
And where does the “city” get money?
This “city” is one for which Congress has the power to legislate “in all cases whatsoever”.
Revoke Home Rule. Dissolve all DC Courts and reconstitute them with no more power than any other traffic court which is necessary for the next step. Tell the Commanders to build their own damn stadium. Why should taxpayers pay one red cent for this? Put the doge on this scent and let them rip it to shreds. The end.
What’s wrong with the old one? My sons and I attended a Giants-Redskins game there a few years ago and it was perfectly adequate!
3 billion dollars for a stadium that will host 8-9 games each year and come at expense of taxpayers? Yeah, great idea.
The City of Washington doesn’t stand to gain from any such deal.
Even if the “Commanders” simply paid DC $10 million/year and rebuilt RFK on their own money they should be told to take a hike.
The players might pay $5 million in income tax, mainly to Virginia because that’s where the Redskins used to practice (and might still do) and where most of the players lived.
There’s traffic, parking, criminally rowdy fans, diversion of police resources, etc.
The Prince George’s Commanders or Fairfax Commanders just doesn’t have a bite. It’s going to be Washington Whatever. Why pay when free promotion is inevitable?