Which would you hate more: Commanders leave DC, or Commanders stadium in your neighborhood?
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Anonymous
| And if you'd LOVE to have the Commanders local to you because of that sweet sweet economic promise, I guess let us know that too. |
Anonymous
| I'd hate the Commanders stadium in my neighborhood more, no question. |
Anonymous
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I want the commanders to have a better name (red tails was my choice, sigh) and to be in DC. I'd like them to be at a new RFK (though i don't want to lose the fields there, which are a pain in the butt to get to but at least a decent facility in DC.
I live in Ward 1. There's no place in Ward 1 to locate such a large facility. Ward 5 maybe? I can't imagine there being land available anyplace but the existing site. |
Anonymous
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Sadly, the Redskins are dead and buried.
No one cares about the Commoders despite what local media hype like WTOP is trying to make you believe. They should move. |
Anonymous
| I think they should really be at RFK. If I lived near it, I would welcome it. I don't want them where I currently live because there's no space for a stadium here. |
Anonymous
| I have no problem with them leaving and one million percent would not want that stadium anywhere near me. |
Anonymous
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I live in Capitol Hill and would hate to have a new stadium replace RFK.
First, that's a huge amount of space that could be filled with houses, apartments, restaurants, playing fields, schools, shops - basically an entire neighborhood. In contrast, a stadium is used 8 days a year for three hours. Second, it would be a huge waste of money. Whenever a stadium is built, cities end up paying a tremendous amount of money for very little benefit. See https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/vegas-washington-dc-suckers-bet-publicly-funded-sports-stadiums |
Anonymous
There is no land in most of the city unless you either clean up a superfund site (and if you're paying for it, why give it to a team) or give up parkland. |
Anonymous
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Any scenario where taxpayer money is used for the commanders in any way.
They should get $0. |
Anonymous
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The Commanders can't "leave" DC because the Commanders are not in DC, they are in Landover, which is in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Would I care if the Commanders moved to Albuquerque or Des Moines or Butte or wherever? No, I wouldn't. |
Anonymous
Right, that's what is confusing about the premise. Are the Commanders considering moving to another city? I don't care if they do but didn't realize that was on the table, especially since they have been touting the local ties of the new owner group. |
Anonymous
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Sorry I'm the OP and I should have written DMV vs DC in the subject.
They aren't at all talking about leaving - it just seems like no one actually want to have a stadium near them...so if the team requires a new stadium, where the heck does it go? Richmond? |
Anonymous
| I would hate a stadium in my neighborhood. I live in Capitol Hill and am very strongly against a stadium at RFK. What a waste of a prize piece of land and opportunity to benefit the residents of DC (not a slightly better billionaire than the last one). Honestly I could care less if the Commanders left DC. And for the record I also grew up in DC. |
Anonymous
They stay where they are. Land is expensive and if the government is going to just give it away there are other public uses that most people would prefer |
Anonymous
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I would hate to see them have a stadium in DC. Football stadiums are one of the worst returns on investment for a municipality, especially an urban one. A giant stadium surrounded by parking lots and used 8 times a year is a colossal waste of land.
Anyone who thinks the team should have a stadium in DC should not be taken seriously. |