Commanders strike deal with DC officials to take over old RFK Stadium site

The Washington Commanders reached an statement to physique a caller stadium connected the tract of the aged RFK Stadium successful Washington, D.C., officials said Monday.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said the District of Columbia authorities and Commanders executives reached a woody to instrumentality to the tract they called location for 3 decades. The woody is pending D.C. City Council approval.

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RFK Stadium is disposable from Air Force One arsenic it takes disconnected from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, connected Nov. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

The Commanders posted a nostalgic video showing the aged days of the franchise, formerly known arsenic the Washington Redskins, playing successful Washington, D.C. Super Bowl-winning backmost Joe Theismann narrated the video. 

"The clip is now," Theismann said. "Let's bring Washington backmost to D.C."

The franchise played astatine RFK Stadium from 1961 to 1996 earlier they moved to Landover, Maryland, astatine the module present known arsenic Northwest Stadium. Team proprietor Josh Harris had considered antithetic sites for a caller stadium since helium bought the squad from Daniel Snyder.

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Washington Commanders wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus, #14, celebrates his touchdown with Washington Commanders backmost Jayden Daniels, #5, and others during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles connected Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024 successful Landover, Maryland. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Congressional lawmakers supported Harris’ pursuit of taking implicit the aged RFK Stadium tract connected the information the squad and the NFL would grant the aged Redskins logo successful immoderate way. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said helium would enactment the enactment going guardant with its program aft "good religion negotiations" with some entities.

"We were calling retired leaders successful lawsuit of really, woke gone wrong. The irony that they were canceling Native American civilization arsenic the DEI question went mode excessively far," Daines said successful November. "This is honoring a Blackfeet main who was calved successful Montana. He is highly esteemed. The Blackfeet people of Montana, their existent president and tribal assembly signed a missive successful beardown enactment to bring the logo back. It honors Indian Country. 

"We person bully discussions with the NFL and with the Commanders. There’s bully religion successful negotiations going guardant that’s going to let this logo to beryllium utilized again. Perhaps revenues going to a instauration that could assistance Native Americans successful sports and truthful forth. We’re making bully advancement and, based connected the bully religion negotiations, I made a determination to enactment this measure yesterday successful the committee."

Harris said successful August that 2030 was a "reasonable target" for a caller stadium.

Washington Commanders proprietor Josh Harris stands connected the tract anterior to the crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine Northwest Stadium successful Landover, Maryland, connected Nov. 24, 2024. (Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)

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He besides expressed anticipation of a aboriginal NFL Draft taking spot connected the National Mall betwixt the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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