DC United Move bad news for Skins Relocation?

[sportscurmudgeon]

DC won't build a stadium for the Skins for two important reasons:

1. The city does not have about $900M - 1.1B lying around waiting to be spent and with its credit rating it would have trouble borrowing that kind of money in almost any economic climate - - let alone this one.

2. The city would be tied up in lawsuits for ten years no matter where they tried to acquire enough land to build a new huge stadium with parking and road improvements.


Danny Boy isn't going to build his own stadium the way JKC did or the way Jerry Jones is doing. That is not his business model.


"Never" is too long a time horizon to say that the Skins will "never" be back in DC. But they won't be there anytime in the next 10-15 years...