Why the FedEx Field Bashing?

[Master4Caster]

The biggest problem is that it's not RFK, sacred ground in Redskin history.

People forget that:

1. RFK is not viable for modern NFL economics.
2. 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.
3. Cooke built Redskins - later Jack Kent Cooke Stadium - later FedEx Field with his own money; so it's functional, not pretty.
4. The open effect lets cheers escape skyward. RFK's canopy redirected crowd noise back to the field. Atmosphere! Atmosphere!
5. 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.
6. Prince Georges County welcomed the Stadium when DC and Virginia said no.
7. Parking and traffic for a 90,000 seat stadium would be more congested in the District than in PG County.
8. RFK would vibrate with crowd noise. Sturdy FedEx does not.
9. 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.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Master4Caster

The biggest problem is that it's not RFK, sacred ground in Redskin history.

You really didn't need to say anything else.
I told my wife I wanted my ashes spread across RFK stadium. Not fedex field!