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Step 1) Take the DC deal and get DC to put a huge security presence on game days in the arena area and metro. Say it was a mistake to move.

Step 2) Bring back the team name to the iconic Bullets. From an era and history that the team was well run and good.

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I don’t know why Virginia would even want the teams. When you look in the rafters of the current arena it’s practically barren of meaningful franchise accomplishments. 1 half century old nba championship of a team with a different name and 1 Stanley cup in 50 years. Then the hilarious Mystics attendance leader banner. When number 8 retires in the immediate future there is zero reason to waste time on these teams that have boring names and poor loyalty. There is nothing interesting about the new project. It looks sterile and aesthetically boring while being hilariously right next to the Reagan National jet takeoff impact zone.

Total joke.[/quote]

The Caps have been sold out for basically the last 15 years. The Wizards draw incredibly well for how putrid they have been since 1980.

Fans will come if you put a winning product on the floor.[/quote]

Those attendance numbers will not carryover to PY for either the Caps or the Wizards.
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of course they won't

MD and DC fans, many of them, will not take the extra hour of travel time to get to and from the games, particularly weeknight games
And the Wizards fans are almost all DC/MD so that will kill any attendance.

And the thing is, the projections from Monumental do not reflect that reality, hence why the numbers they use for their rosy projections do not stand objective scrutiny.

That is why the Senator killed the project; there is way too much liability for virginia taxpayers.

If it is a great deal and Ted is confident in his teams success, then he should be willing to finance the bonds on his own and not rely on the very "socialism" that Gov. Youngkin and the GOP profess to abhor.[/quote]

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