{"id":108051,"date":"2024-12-03T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/congress-could-determine-nfl-washington-commanders-home-stadium\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:04:15","slug":"congress-could-determine-nfl-washington-commanders-home-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/congress-could-determine-nfl-washington-commanders-home-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress could determine NFL Washington Commanders\u2019 home stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — Congress’s December to-do list includes an unusual item this year: a bill that could determine the home of the NFL’s Washington Commanders.<\/p>\n

Since 1997, the team has played home games in nearby Maryland, and the former home of the team, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadum, has\u00a0fallen into disrepair.<\/a><\/p>\n

But there is new momentum behind a bipartisan bill to grant the District of Columbia a 99-year lease on the federal land that could allow the city to make a deal with the team to return to Washington after 28 years.<\/p>\n

The House approved the bill in February. A key Senate committee did the same last month — after the team and league promised Republican Sen. Steve Daines\u00a0it would honor<\/a>\u00a0the team’s old Redskins logo that depicts a chief of Montana’s Blackfeet tribe.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve had good discussions with the NFL and with the Commanders,”\u00a0Daines told Fox News<\/a>\u00a0last month. “There\u2019s good faith negotiations going forward that\u2019s gonna allow this logo to be used again,” he added, citing this as the reason why he changed his mind to favor the bill.<\/p>\n

Now, advocates are blitzing the halls of Congress, trying to get Senate leaders to add the measure to a year-end spending bill.<\/p>\n

On Monday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Commanders Managing Partner Josh Harris met with Hill leaders on the stadium proposal and among other matters, a league source and Commanders team source confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n

If the Senate doesn’t approve the deal by the end of the month, the bill dies, and both chambers would need to start from scratch in 2025.<\/p>\n

That could also leave the fate of the project in the hands of President-elect\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump has feuded with the NFL and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and has slammed D.C. as “filthy”, and crime ridden. But the developer-turned-president has also promised to redevelop the city – and once\u00a0aspired to own an NFL franchise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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