Outdoors on grass til world's end amen
Since I pubbed a two parter last week on a new stadium in the District for the Redskins I have been digging a little deeper into this story of a new stadium for the Redskins in the District and have uncovered a couple other links and I wanted to make them available and to comment.
Here is a WRC NBC channel 4 story from November 2006 on secret talks between then DC Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty and Dan Snyder on a new stadium on the RFK site and here is the RFK Wikipedia page that includes a reference to this channel 4 story.
It was reported in this story that New RFK almost certainly would be a domed stadium so that owner Dan could fulfull his dream of hosting a Super Bowl.
If you will recall after the attacks of 11 September 2001 the league considered giving Washington and New York Super Bowls as a show of support though that was nothing more than lip service because Super Bowls are scheduled so far in advance it was easy to talk about it and never do it because the first one available would have been in 2007 when 9/11 would be safely six years in the past.
Super Bowl 40 (5 Feb 2006 after the 2005 season) was scheduled in November 2000, Super Bowl 41 (4 February 2007 after the 2006 season) was scheduled in September 2003 and Super Bowl 42 (scheduled for 3 February 2008 after the 2007 season) was awarded October 2003. This is the Super Bowl the league considered dedicating to the fallen of 9/11.
Ultimately New York was rejected because planned renovations at Giants Stadium were hung up and the Jets were in the midst of planning (their ultimately failed) new stadium on the West Side of New York City. Either way New York would have been dismissed due to weather and after thinking long and hard about the fallen and the sacrifice of that September day the league dismissed Washington due to cold and wet.
Because the league will NEVER put the Super Bowl in an open stadium in a cold weather city. Now Washington may not be a cold weather city per se but there is a hell of a chance that the weather that day in late January or early February will be cold as shite or wet and freezing rainy and the league won't risk its centerpiece of corporate knob slobbing and media worship on cold and wet no matter how many died.
As a Redskins fan I would like to iterate something about New RFK and all this hubbub:
The Redskins will never play in a dome!
The Redskins are an outdoors on grass team, the unpredictability of weather in the open stadiums of the NFC Beast (yes, even Texas Stadium has had some inclement weather) is a factor and part of why year after year to do well these teams have to run and control the ball in December and January.
If Dan Snyder thinks he can take this team and put them in a dome or even some foppy retractable roof situation just so he can get a Super Bowl and keep his fanny and the fannies of his sycophants and high dollar ticketholders warm and dry, why I'll...I'll...I don't know but you can bet it will be sternly worded.
Since I pubbed a two parter last week on a new stadium in the District for the Redskins I have been digging a little deeper into this story of a new stadium for the Redskins in the District and have uncovered a couple other links and I wanted to make them available and to comment.
Here is a WRC NBC channel 4 story from November 2006 on secret talks between then DC Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty and Dan Snyder on a new stadium on the RFK site and here is the RFK Wikipedia page that includes a reference to this channel 4 story.
It was reported in this story that New RFK almost certainly would be a domed stadium so that owner Dan could fulfull his dream of hosting a Super Bowl.
If you will recall after the attacks of 11 September 2001 the league considered giving Washington and New York Super Bowls as a show of support though that was nothing more than lip service because Super Bowls are scheduled so far in advance it was easy to talk about it and never do it because the first one available would have been in 2007 when 9/11 would be safely six years in the past.
Super Bowl 40 (5 Feb 2006 after the 2005 season) was scheduled in November 2000, Super Bowl 41 (4 February 2007 after the 2006 season) was scheduled in September 2003 and Super Bowl 42 (scheduled for 3 February 2008 after the 2007 season) was awarded October 2003. This is the Super Bowl the league considered dedicating to the fallen of 9/11.
Ultimately New York was rejected because planned renovations at Giants Stadium were hung up and the Jets were in the midst of planning (their ultimately failed) new stadium on the West Side of New York City. Either way New York would have been dismissed due to weather and after thinking long and hard about the fallen and the sacrifice of that September day the league dismissed Washington due to cold and wet.
Because the league will NEVER put the Super Bowl in an open stadium in a cold weather city. Now Washington may not be a cold weather city per se but there is a hell of a chance that the weather that day in late January or early February will be cold as shite or wet and freezing rainy and the league won't risk its centerpiece of corporate knob slobbing and media worship on cold and wet no matter how many died.
As a Redskins fan I would like to iterate something about New RFK and all this hubbub:
The Redskins will never play in a dome!
The Redskins are an outdoors on grass team, the unpredictability of weather in the open stadiums of the NFC Beast (yes, even Texas Stadium has had some inclement weather) is a factor and part of why year after year to do well these teams have to run and control the ball in December and January.
If Dan Snyder thinks he can take this team and put them in a dome or even some foppy retractable roof situation just so he can get a Super Bowl and keep his fanny and the fannies of his sycophants and high dollar ticketholders warm and dry, why I'll...I'll...I don't know but you can bet it will be sternly worded.
RFK Stadium from here.
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