NEW stadium at our beloved old RFK site!!!

[Caliskinsfan]

It's cool that they are returning to the city especially at the former site of past glory and disappointment, is great, but a 2030 grand opening to mark their 6th NFCCG in a row and/or 3rd/4th SB win in 6 years would be just as sweet!

One can always dream... why not us - lol

 

[Caliskinsfan]

This makes more sense

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Thing to keep in mind with a 'rendering'

 

[skinsdad62]

This makes more sense

Not all that money , in fact most it will not be taxed and given back to the government at those numbers. Overhead and profits will dip into it

 

[Sportster 72]

They mentioned Interstate Highways but none of them goes to the stadium. Roads to the stadium cannot handle the traffic so as I mentioned in an earlier post public transportation will be a big part getting to the new stadium.

This all has to be approved by the DC Council. I don't know if todays announcement means they have the 7 votes needed. In the past they did not have the votes needed.

 

[Buffalo_Nickel_1]

Yay us!!!

And LOVE this first peek look

What about golf ball size hail the roof is toast how do keepbit clean the bird shit

 

[skinsdad62]

What about golf ball size hail the roof is toast how do keepbit clean the bird shit

I am sure it isn’t pure glass and I guess they will use a big gas station wiper

 

[countryroads316]

Some Dumb Asses already starting can't stand Democrats

 

[Hbomb]

Some Dumb Asses already starting can't stand Democrats

Doesn’t the Mayor want the new Stafium?

Isn’t the Mayor a Democrat?

You hate Democrats

Ergo you don’t want the Stadium. QED

 

[countryroads316]

Doesn’t the Mayor want the new Stafium?

Isn’t the Mayor a Democrat?

You hate Democrats

Ergo you don’t want the Stadium. QED

Democrats are the ones going after Billionaires and rich people and that area is heavily Democrat they hate the Commanders it was their liberal party that got our teams name changed from the Redskins

 

[chillerdab]

You dont make any sense as per usual.

 

[countryroads316]

You dont make any sense as per usual.

Who doesn't make sense I will put money on it that it was a dumbass Democrat that put that sign up

 

[Stymietee]

What about golf ball size hail the roof is toast how do keepbit clean the bird shit

If the Eagles, Cardinals, Ravens, Falcons and Seahawks come into the new spot and dream of shitting on it, then kicking their asses will send a message to all others, that this team... "gotta protect our house!!!"

 

[chillerdab]

Democrats are the ones going after Billionaires and rich people and that area is heavily Democrat they hate the Commanders it was their liberal party that got our teams name changed from the Redskins

You dont make any sense.

You say that they hate the Commanders and then you also say that they got our team’s name changed from the Redskins.

That’s why you dont make any damn sense.

It’s not a liberal idea to want the money to go to the actual people of DC as opposed to a subsidy for a stadium.

On the other hand, I’m not gonna get in a political debate here, so nevermind country, and have at it.

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Likely a battle forthcoming with the DC Council

 

[Caliskinsfan]

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Thom Loverro (love him or hate him) is a gifted writer - especially when it comes to DC inner workings

I've copied his opinion piece here since it's paywalled at The Washington Times...

LOVERRO: Subtract a Snyder, add a Daniels, the answer may equal a new stadium​

OPINION:
There were many circumstances that led to the moment Monday when District Mayor Muriel Bowser and Washington Commanders owners announced a new $3.7 billion stadium deal on the old RFK stadium site — and may ultimately lead to it actually happening.
Many of the most important circumstances were minuses. Absences. Disappearances.

First, the Redskins name disappeared. No one in power in this city would be publicly talking about spending a billion dollars in public funds for a team named the Washington Redskins.

Oh, they talked privately or tried to mask it. Former Mayor Anthony Williams pitched it as part of the city’s 2012 Olympic bid. So did Bowser for the 2024 bid — both failures.
Former mayor Adrian Fenty went to Ashburn to talk about a new stadium, and Bruce Allen and city officials went to Tampa on a fact-finding mission of sorts to see how the Buccaneers — Allen’s former employer — had set up their stadium and headquarters complex.

But city officials knew it was all a non-starter as long as the team was identified with a name that many — though not the majority of American Indians, based on two independent polls — saw as racially offensive.
Then, in the backlash to George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020, the team announced it was dropping the Redskins name. For a couple of years, they were known as the Washington Football Team.

But the team could have been called the Washington Golden Angels by then and still no one was going to back public funding for a stadium as long as Dan Snyder owned the team. He was a polarizing figure who would become publicly toxic after a Washington Post series detailing employees making sexual harassment allegations within the organization.

That blew up into a congressional investigation, state probes of financial misconduct and ultimately the NFL forcing Snyder to sell the team.
No one in power in this city would be publicly talking about spending a billion dollars in public funds for a team owned by Snyder.
But there was one key addition, not subtraction, to the circumstances that led to a stadium deal. It is the sun that all the planets of the Washington Commanders revolve around.

And that was Jayden Daniels, last season’s rookie quarterback, who changed the trajectory of a franchise.
Too much? I don’t think so. Monday’s press conference was as much a celebration of a team that went 12-5 and made it to the NFC title game for the first time since the team still played at old RFK Stadium as it was a stadium announcement.

“Winning makes this a lot easier,” said one District official familiar with the stadium negotiations.
Specifically, winning after decades of losing. Let’s not forget that owner Jack Kent Cooke had three Super Bowls in his pocket. Look where that stadium wound up.

New owner Josh Harris and his group get credit of course for the positive changes surrounding this team since they took over in the summer of 2023. But let’s face it — the DMV felt like an inmate seeing sunlight for the first time after 25 years of solitary. It was hard not to be the good guy — even after raising ticket prices — when the bad guy was so, so bad.

City officials have acknowledged privately that a 4-13 season like Harris’ first year of ownership would have made their pitch a tougher sell, given all the recent negative baggage the new owner inherited.

Now, everybody wants to be in the Jayden Daniels business, and any opposition will feel like Dean Wormer shutting down Delta House.
There will be opposition. The deal still needs city council approval, and there is already a “Homes Not Stadiums” movement that has asked the D.C. Board of Elections to put on the ballot an initiative that would create a new “Special Purpose Zone” on the RFK grounds that would prohibit the construction and use of a stadium or arena for a professional sports team.

There will be other voices in a neighborhood filled with Capitol Hill staffers, lobbyists and lawyers who have enjoyed peace and quiet since RFK has remained empty. Any delay could escalate costs and give pause to Commanders owners who see the doors opening to a new District stadium by 2030, leaving Northwest Stadium and Landover behind.

But the momentum for this stadium is strong — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was at the press conference and spoke of his fond memories growing up in Washington (his father was U.S. Sen. Charles Goodell from New York) and going to see games at RFK Stadium.

“I was thinking on the way down here today (about) all the great times I had going to RFK Stadium,” Goodell said. “And now a new generation of kids are going to be able to experience that, and I really, truly believe it’s great for this community.”

Nostalgia is a powerful marketing tool. So is Jayden Daniels.

 

[countryroads316]

That person is retarded and didn't read what was proposed and agreed to

 

[skinsdad62]

 

[Caliskinsfan]