The stretch of I-95 from Springfield to Woodbridge is one of the worst sections of highway in the country.
If that’s the case, then the idea of building an NFL stadium in Woodbridge sounds like an absolute disaster waiting to happen. Washington fans have been complaining about the nightmare traffic situation at FedEx Field pretty much since it opened.
There was talk that the team was trying to angle to move back to the District itself; that the changing of the name was a stipulation the D.C. Council had made to Dan Snyder as a prerequisite for negotiations at all. I wonder if this land deal might be a part of that.
Don’t believe anything you read. Disinformation is more prevalent when it comes to NFL teams and stadium negotiations than in the Cold War.
I mean, sure, this is good advice in general when it comes to teams angling for tax breaks re: stadiums, etc. But in this case the Commanders just dropped $100 million on 200 acres, and I doubt they did it as part of a head fake or a negotiation tactic.
What sort of training facilities / team HQ do the Commanders have at present? The site in Woodbridge could be used for something like that. The Cowboys have their facility at The Star in Frisco, which is probably a 45 minute car ride (in regular traffic) from their stadium in Arlington.
It’s my understanding they’ve not actually bought or paid for the land, they’ve simply acquired the option to buy it for $100M.
Their practice facilities/HQ is in Ashburn, about 30 miles north of the Woodbridge site.
That’s not what the cited article says, and would definitely be a whole different kettle of fish.
Looks like the initial source was overstating things a little:
Huh, looks like Omni was right.
Even if they had bought it, $100M is peanuts if it’s used to leverage a $1B+ government handout. It’s not like that parcel of land evaporates, they’d just turn around and sell it and only be out the debt service (assuming it doesn’t sell for more than they paid).
See what the Bears did buying that property up in Arlington Heights. That went for ~$200M and it means next to nothing in terms of where the Bears will be calling home for the remainder of the century. If the city steps up and builds a new palace on the lakefront you can be damn sure that they’ll quietly pawn off that track for a tidy profit.
In other news, it looks like the Pro Bowl game might finally be dead:
Oh, thank God. The Pro Bowl is the worst of all the all-star games, and it’s not even a competition. Fuck, they don’t even get to play it in Hawaii anymore!
In other news, a judge has ruled that misogynistic, racist asshole Jon Gruden can continue his lawsuit against the NFL. The judge denied the NFL’s motion to dismiss, indicating that there is enough evidence that the NFL was responsible for the leaking of emails that show what a sexist, racist asshole Gruden is.
There are no winners here.
Yeah, they’re all terrible.
It can’t happen but I want all sides to lose here. I’ll settle for some kind of Pyrrhic victory where Gruden ‘wins’ but in a way that costs him most of his wealth and makes him look even worse as a human being.
I disagree, I think flipping over a rock to expose all that vermin to the light is of benefit to everyone who wasn’t skulking under that rock. The more this garbage gets exposed, the more scrutiny is put on them, the less they’re able to get away with.
Mutually assured destruction between parties who deserve punishment is justice in my eyes.
Exactly this. 
The Colts have signed Nick Foles to backup Matt Ryan.
The Indianapolis Colts, sponsored by AARP.
(Yeah, I know, that’s a stupid comment when Tom Brady won a Super Bowl recently, but that’s what popped in my head.)
Here, I was thinking: “The Indianapolis Colts: We’ll Give Any Former Eagles QB a Job.”
Rumors that they had contacted Ron Jaworski and Randall Cunningham are, at this point, unconfirmed.
Boy the NFL granted the Bengals “wish” for more exposure and primetime games. We’ve got five! We used to make a big deal out of one, let alone more (and usually mentally chalking up an “L” in our collective Bengals fan hive mind for those games because…Andy Dalton and Marvin Lewis…) and now we have a QB that can really ball out, with a pair of awesome receivers in Higgins and Chase.
It still boggles my mind that somehow Burrow managed to lead the league in completion percentage at just over 70% while also being the most sacked QB in the league behind the worst offensive line in the league, and somehow leading his team to a Super Bowl. What a wild ride, helped in no small part by that little badass kicker we’ve got going on. Oh, and a defense that can also ball out. A defense that held Pat Mahomes and his offense to only 3 points per half in both games we played the Chiefs and beat them (in two very eerily similar games too).
So now Burrow has some great new additions at o-line, and somehow someone has to get better there by osmosis or something. So the sky should be the limit, I suppose. I could not be more happy with Burrow. He’s literally almost a picture-perfect blend of just about everything that makes an NFL QB a winner, gamer and leader.
A lot of pressure, all those eyes…