As you may have heard, during Sunday’s game between the Washington Football Team (new name coming real soon now) and the Philadelphia Eagles, a bunch of Eagles fans who weren’t supposed to be in an ADA seating area leaned on a railing to see Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and the railing collapsed, resulting in no serious injuries but much excited news reporting. And since this is the WFT, who are owned by Daniel Snyder who everyone hates, and everyone apparently hates their stadium, too, this led to lots of calls to tear the damn place down already:
Hurts and the fans learned something firsthand that we’ve all known from a distance – FedEx Field is the biggest dump in the NFL and sadly represents the awful person who owns the team.
The stadium needs to go, and so does Daniel Snyder.
They should have finished the job and torn down the rest of the stadium. Washington Football Team fans would have probably helped.
Army cadets and prep school students fell from the stands at the 1998 Army-Navy game at since-demolished Veterans Stadium.
The incident was used by the Eagles and Phillies to advocate for new, government-funded stadiums in Philadelphia. Dan Snyder should pony up.
Okay, pointing and laughing is fun until somebody gets an eye put out, but calling for the demolition of a 24-year-old stadium to spite the team’s owner when he’s in the middle of angling for a new stadium funded with potentially a ton of tax kickbacks is maybe not the best way of gaining revenge.
One of the most important tactics for getting a new stadium approved is to get people seeing the old place as obsolete — something that might normally be a challenge for a building not even 30 years old. But if the public image shifts from “stadium that the team just got built not long ago” to “dump that needs to be razed yesterday,” that makes Snyder’s job that much easier. I’m not saying Snyder personally went around loosening bolts on that railing any more than George Steinbrenner took a crowbar to that Yankee Stadium expansion joint in 1998, but things falling down at a stadium you want to get a replacement for is hardly a worst-case scenario for an owner. So ridicule all you want, but don’t be surprised if Snyder ends up shame-faced all the way to the bank.
That’s Mr. Snyder to you! LOL
Every hear the story about that?
Hilarious!
Can’t say that I know that one…
In honor of your random “please link to this story because you apparently talked about the zombie apocalypse” adventure, allow me to conclude this by dusting off this old chestnut: “Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.”
I can only imagine what kind of spam I’ll get if I write up this story:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10022866-some-jaguars-fans-planning-to-dress-as-clowns-for-week-18-in-hopes-of-gm-change
I’m all for getting rid of FedEx Field; it’s large but large in terms of pure excess, it’s ugly, it’s not friendly to people with disabilities or mobility issues, it lacks fan amenities (to hell with skyboxes and corporate interests, I’m talking about the average experience), and it’s an absolute nightmare getting to and from events with the team not bothering with paying for a shuttle service because what are you, poor? Snyder can’t go without another yacht, you know. Do you want to deprive Daniel Snyder of his annual yacht because you want to use public transportation instead of paying for parking?
The problem is, the media is usually biased in favor of getting new stadiums because it’s something fun to talk about as opposed to the boring logistical nightmares that involve funding, where the stadium goes, who wins (the billionaire) and who loses (usually everyone else) out of the deal that often only get investigated long after the building is built. And in these situations, even someone as unpopular as Daniel Snyder, who by all accounts, should be raked over the coals for just about anything he does, can easily amend his credibility by placating the raving masses with a shiny new facility for which his football team can regularly finish 7-10… demanding the stadium be replaced is putting him in a favorable position as opposed to insisting he fund the place with his own damn money and buy his own land.
Something being obsolete and being a dump aren’t the same thing. A newly built motel 6 is a dump but not obsolete much like the Washington football stadium. The stadium is generally inconvenient, unpleasant and maybe the worst stadium I’ve ever watched a game—and I watched several at stadiums the NFL has abandoned and/or that have been demolished.
This was because the team made a lot of bad choices when building a stadium which makes one wonder “why would anyone think they would make better ones this time under a terrible owner?”
Wait a damn minute!
I watched this story on Fox news and it was clear that this was a terrorist attack on the Washington Ex-skins… we KNOW that.
Ok, ok, it could also have been a false flag operation by the NFL hating democrats to distract us from their pizza joint thing.
The bigger question is what is Field of Schemes trying to hide here?