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[quote=Anonymous]The votes aren't there on the DC Council to pay for a new stadium right now and Jack Evans was one of the strong yes votes and Charles Allen whose Ward the Stadium is currently in is vehemently opposed.

If this ever really crops up there is going to be a big racial divide on this on both the Council and in DC.

There are a lot of African Americans who look upon the Washington team's glory days with a great deal of nostalgia for both the team and the old Chocolate City with Marion Barry as Mayor.

And a lot of affluent whites, many of whom are newcomers to DC, don't care about football or the team and have no knowledge of the history.

And the cities changing demographics happen to overlap with new stadiums for the Wizards/Caps, Nationals, DC United and the Mystics though only the Nationals and Mystics stadiums were fully publicly funded but most residents have no idea what was publicly paid for nor any knowledge of how on the spectrum of wasteful spending on sports facilities football stadiums have by far the poorest return since they are used so rarely and require so much parking.  But that won't matter - the sports teams that are most popular among affluent whites got stadiums and there is going to be a lot of anger when the football team doesn't get the same.

One wrinkle in all of this is that by law the RFK site has to be used for sporting events and as referenced above all of the other teams already got new facilities so what else can be put there.

Congress can amend the law but Snyder will potentially be able to bribe his way out of the law being changed if there is a real path to a publicly funded stadium in DC.

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