The biggest problem is that it's not RFK, sacred ground in Redskin history.
People forget that:
- RFK is not viable for modern NFL economics.
- Jack Kent Cooke tried for years to work with the District to build a stadium in DC. If you watched the baseball stadium debacle, you get the idea.
- Cooke built Redskins - later Jack Kent Cooke Stadium - later FedEx Field with his own money; so it's functional, not pretty.
- The open effect lets cheers escape skyward. RFK's canopy redirected crowd noise back to the field. Atmosphere! Atmosphere!
- The corporate suites and plaza level moves fans in the upper deck much farther away from the action. The upper deck at RFK was almost intimate.
- Prince Georges County welcomed the Stadium when DC and Virginia said no.
- Parking and traffic for a 90,000 seat stadium would be more congested in the District than in PG County.
- RFK would vibrate with crowd noise. Sturdy FedEx does not.
- Joe Gibbs, Jack Pardee and George Allen won at RFK. At FedEx, well . . . .
There's loose talk that District fathers would like to lure the Redskins back.
You can laugh at that one. I do.