Will DC subsidize a new Redskins stadium?

[Anonymous]

With it seeming likely that the Skins are headed back to DC, is there any chance that we end up paying for a new stadium through taxes and special tax districts created to pay for Dan's boondoggle?

[Anonymous]

100%

[Anonymous]

DC will insist on the team changing its name from the Redskins, and that's not happening as long as Snyder owns the team.

[Anonymous]

Only if they win the super bowl ....lol

[Anonymous]

I don’t see them headed back or DC paying for a new stadium esp with that name and owner

[Anonymous]

I sure hope not. They can pay for their own stadium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC will insist on the team changing its name from the Redskins, and that's not happening as long as Snyder owns the team.

+1. A Democrat-controlled House or Senate (or both) will insist on the same. I’m betting they’ll end up in Loudon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope not. They can pay for their own stadium.

This. The NFL is in decline, most especially the Redskins. I used to be a huge Skins fan, but now I say good riddance. Let them wither on the vine in MD OR they can fund their own stadium. Not one tax dollar should be spent on a stadium used 8 times a year.

[Anonymous]

100% they will keep their name and get a taxpayer subsidized stadium. Developers etc always win in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope not. They can pay for their own stadium.

This. The NFL is in decline, most especially the Redskins. I used to be a huge Skins fan, but now I say good riddance. Let them wither on the vine in MD OR they can fund their own stadium. Not one tax dollar should be spent on a stadium used 8 times a year.

right there with you. I was a huge fan in the 80s and early 90s (when they won some Super Bowls). Then Snyder happened and the team hasn't been the same since. Use your own damn money, Danny. There is nothing wrong with that stadium, either. It just isn't close to anything.

DC doesn't care about this football team anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope not. They can pay for their own stadium.

This. The NFL is in decline, most especially the Redskins. I used to be a huge Skins fan, but now I say good riddance. Let them wither on the vine in MD OR they can fund their own stadium. Not one tax dollar should be spent on a stadium used 8 times a year.

No, it isn't: TV ratings have rebounded and are up 10 percent over the past two seasons, and the league is on the verge of signing new TV deals that will bring in billions to the game. NFL football is really the only reliable thing left for broadcasters. And it will take merely one good season -- hell, one middling season -- for the mouth-breathing Redskins fans to forget the mediocrity of the past two decades and come back into the fold.

This isn't to say tax money should be spent on a new stadium. It shouldn't. But that cretin Bowser seems hellbent on making this happen, despite the optics, because the developers who line her pocketbook will be the ones who benefit. Frankly, any decision she makes should be framed around "does it benefit developers" thinking.

[Anonymous]

I sure as hell hope not, but it's DC. I am just waiting for the day when football will die. It's such a horrible sport.

[Anonymous]

The DC Council and US Congress seem to be shutting down this horrible idea, thank goodness.

https://wamu.org/story/19/06/17/return-of-redskins-to-rfk-stadium-could-be-halted-by-d-c-council-provision/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/redskins-bid-for-rfk-stadium-land-dealt-blow-in-last-weeks-federal-spending-bill/2019/12/21/8cc21c02-242d-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html

[Anonymous]

Of course. DC is as corrupt as they come. The right people will get paid, and the stadium will be built. I predict no name change either.

[Anonymous]

I'm going ot buck woke DCUM and say I hope so. But ideally a little bit of DC $$, not a lot. I think DC is better with the football team in the city.