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So - Snyder trying to work a provision funding a new 'RFK' stadium into Trump/Republicans spending bill...
https://www.nbcsports.com/washingto...s-try-and-get-new-stadium-rfk-location-report
But here are my thoughts. Firstly - Eff DC... lead by the same group of clowns who've been trying to get our team's name changed for a decade running. They don't deserve to have the team imho.
Secondly - it's Virginia's chance to host the team. We've had stadiums in DC and now in Maryland. Virginia holds at least as many Skins fans as those 2 areas combined, but have had to drive long distances to see their team play for decades. It's time Virginia Skins fans got the chance to have a stadium within their own state lines.
Thirdly - if this somehow goes through - the Redskins won't be 'returning to RFK'. The Redskins 'return to RFK' is being touted all over the place, from the linked article above, to countless idiot Twitter posts. RFK is gone forever and, aside from the glory that happened to occur there during the first Gibbs era, was a shithole. There may be a stadium built on that property, but what that might have to do with RFK escapes me? Gibbs is gone. Riggo and Monk are gone. And a 50,000 seat stadium rocking up and down like it's going to fall down at any moment - it's all gone, gone, gone.
Snyder needs to tell DC to eff off. He needs to build a smaller, domed, state of the art, loud as hell stadium in Virginia. He needs to include Metro stops right at the front door of the stadium, and incredibly easy highway access to and from. Fielding a consistent winner would be an added bonus, if he can manage that after 20+ years of ineptitude and mediocrity.
Most importantly, he needs to stop co-opting past glories in order to distract from a woeful present and recent past. Daniel Snyder will never, ever recapture the glory of RFK. That gloried past is as dead as respect for DC and the Federal Government itself.
If you want to build something, you break new ground. We don't need a new RFK. We don't need to hire a bunch of former Redskins greats. We don't need to hear about your Redskins belt buckle or love for Pat Fisher. Mr. Snyder - you had zero to do with a gloried Redskins past. All you've done is make those wonderful memories a distant surreal dream since filled with misery. It's time you stopped exploiting things you had nothing to do with and hold yourself accountable for your own achievements.
Do something. Build something. And this time, do it ****ing right.
That's what I think anyway.
https://www.nbcsports.com/washingto...s-try-and-get-new-stadium-rfk-location-report
But here are my thoughts. Firstly - Eff DC... lead by the same group of clowns who've been trying to get our team's name changed for a decade running. They don't deserve to have the team imho.
Secondly - it's Virginia's chance to host the team. We've had stadiums in DC and now in Maryland. Virginia holds at least as many Skins fans as those 2 areas combined, but have had to drive long distances to see their team play for decades. It's time Virginia Skins fans got the chance to have a stadium within their own state lines.
Thirdly - if this somehow goes through - the Redskins won't be 'returning to RFK'. The Redskins 'return to RFK' is being touted all over the place, from the linked article above, to countless idiot Twitter posts. RFK is gone forever and, aside from the glory that happened to occur there during the first Gibbs era, was a shithole. There may be a stadium built on that property, but what that might have to do with RFK escapes me? Gibbs is gone. Riggo and Monk are gone. And a 50,000 seat stadium rocking up and down like it's going to fall down at any moment - it's all gone, gone, gone.
Snyder needs to tell DC to eff off. He needs to build a smaller, domed, state of the art, loud as hell stadium in Virginia. He needs to include Metro stops right at the front door of the stadium, and incredibly easy highway access to and from. Fielding a consistent winner would be an added bonus, if he can manage that after 20+ years of ineptitude and mediocrity.
Most importantly, he needs to stop co-opting past glories in order to distract from a woeful present and recent past. Daniel Snyder will never, ever recapture the glory of RFK. That gloried past is as dead as respect for DC and the Federal Government itself.
If you want to build something, you break new ground. We don't need a new RFK. We don't need to hire a bunch of former Redskins greats. We don't need to hear about your Redskins belt buckle or love for Pat Fisher. Mr. Snyder - you had zero to do with a gloried Redskins past. All you've done is make those wonderful memories a distant surreal dream since filled with misery. It's time you stopped exploiting things you had nothing to do with and hold yourself accountable for your own achievements.
Do something. Build something. And this time, do it ****ing right.
That's what I think anyway.
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