Riggo#44 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 My sources say they have a new naming rights deal in the works: 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 A step in the right direction. They probably will lock up a deal with another company and then when they get a new stadium that company will keep those rights too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 44 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 1 minute ago, TK said: welcome to No Name Stadium Picture reminds of of buildings around Chernobyl...after the melt down 1 minute ago, Riggo#44 said: My sources say they have a new naming rights deal in the works: Bad News Bears right? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 That thing somehow looks worse than RFK did while it was still standing 😞 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodpecker Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Good riddance to FedEx. I hope they lost their ass on the deal. I’ll never forgive the company for igniting the name change fiasco. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Just now, spjunkies said: That thing somehow looks worse than RFK did while it was still standing 😞 ...or currently 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 4 minutes ago, woodpecker said: Good riddance to FedEx. I hope they lost their ass on the deal. I’ll never forgive the company for igniting the name change fiasco. Don't forget that was one of the catalysts that ultimately led up to bootleg Napoleon having to sale. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 16 minutes ago, spjunkies said: That thing somehow looks worse than RFK did while it was still standing 😞 For a long time my mom would take the train down from Philly into Union Station on game days, we'd go to a restaurant in the city, and then pass by RFK on the way to Landover. One time we were at a light at RFK and the person next to me rolls down their window and asks "is that FedEx Field?" I responded, "No, that stadium in front of us is where the Redskins used to actually win games." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodpecker Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) 18 minutes ago, spjunkies said: Don't forget that was one of the catalysts that ultimately led up to bootleg Napoleon having to sale. Not so sure about that. The net result of it was 1- the name change, and 2- Snyder ended up buying those minority shares at a discount rate. By most accounts, he had actually become more powerful at that point. If not for the Gruden email leak getting Congress back involved, we may still be stuck with him. I’ll grant that maybe it helped in the end, but Fred Smith’s intentions were completely selfish at the time. Edited February 28 by woodpecker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovi Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Wasn't Bang Bros trying to get a stadium naming deal? Seems like a good time to gain a "Commanding" presence. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 7 minutes ago, woodpecker said: Not so sure about that. The net result of it was 1- the name change, and 2- Snyder ended up buying those minority shares at a discount rate. By most accounts, he had actually become more powerful at that point. If not for the Gruden email leak getting Congress back involved, we may still be stuck with him. I’ll grant that maybe it helped in the end, but Fred Smith’s intentions were completely selfish at the time. I'm mostly talking about the smoke that surrounded Snyder that was frustrating his fellow owners which caused the drunkard Indy owner to speak openly about our clown. All the pieces came together to get rid of him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Seems to me like the franchise could get a lot more revenue from a new partner given the likely move to competency and much less chance for embarrassment by association. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinky Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Compost Now Colosseum presented by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 The event of 2020 would’ve happened eventually. Most likely tied to funding to a new stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 4 hours ago, woodpecker said: Not so sure about that. The net result of it was 1- the name change, and 2- Snyder ended up buying those minority shares at a discount rate. By most accounts, he had actually become more powerful at that point. If not for the Gruden email leak getting Congress back involved, we may still be stuck with him. I’ll grant that maybe it helped in the end, but Fred Smith’s intentions were completely selfish at the time. You’re forgetting that the reason Smith did that was as revenge for Snyder refusing to pay him his portion of the profits from the team during COVID. Snyder was literally robbing him and getting funny with the books. Also, the debt Snyder took on to purchase all the minority shares was the poison pill that ultimately doomed him and made him cash poor on a larger scale. The team making less money hurt him a lot more after he took on all that debt, and interest rates were only going up so new future debt wasn’t his friend anymore. Nothing ever forced him to sell, not congress and not the other owners—his finances were a problem. The owners let him sign his own death warrant with all that extra debt, they gave him a waiver to buy all those minority shares. In the end it choked him, and the money was no longer worth he and his wife not being able to step foot in their own stadium without hearing how horrible they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 We need a new stadium sponsor you say..... Make it happen, Mr. Harris. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twelfth man Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 8 hours ago, woodpecker said: Good riddance to FedEx. I hope they lost their ass on the deal. I’ll never forgive the company for igniting the name change fiasco. That they did (unfortunately), but it also led to Snyder's departure (fortunately). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anselmheifer Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/28/rfk-stadium-dc-house-passes-bill-redevelop-commanders Ha! In first! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actorguy1 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 (edited) We coming home!!!! Edited February 29 by spjunkies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVAskins Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 32 minutes ago, spjunkies said: We coming home!!!! Times have changed and times are strange Here I come, but I ain't the same Mama, I'm coming home 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsinparadise Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskin301 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 What does this mean moving back to RFK site? are we building new stadium there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actorguy1 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 (edited) 6 minutes ago, redskin301 said: What does this mean moving back to RFK site? are we building new stadium there? It means DC is now in control of the land which held the old RFK instead of the Federal government. Now DC can sell it to Commanders. Edited February 29 by actorguy1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 1 minute ago, actorguy1 said: It means DC is now in control of the land which held the old RFK instead of the Federal government. Now DC can sell it to Commanders. Not just yet,still needs to pass the Senate and get POTUS signature but things are very likely to workout at this point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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