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The Sports Junkies

Commanders Reach Deal To Build New Stadium

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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From 04/28 Hour 1: The Sports Junkies break down the Washington Commanders return to Washington, DC!

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0:00.0

Welcome back.

0:00.6

Chuckie's coming to you live on 106, 7 the fan, and the team 980.

0:06.4

So massive commanders news.

0:10.2

Beyond the draft hall, which we're going to talk about in the 7 o'clock hour, we'll get into who they picked in the later rounds.

0:16.4

I know you guys talked about their first round pick on Friday.

0:21.1

Of course, the draft now is three days, so you found out who they took in the second

0:26.6

round on Friday evening, and then Saturday you found out the later picks.

0:32.2

But the big news here, D.C., Washington, D.C., and the commanders will announce today a deal to build the team's next stadium at the

0:43.3

RFK stadium site.

0:45.8

Details the arrangement, which still have to be approved by the D.C.

0:49.7

Council are expected to be announced in just a few hours in a joint news conference with Josh Harris and the mayor, Muriel Bowser.

1:01.4

So they're coming to RFK.

1:04.7

The big news to me is I think it's a little of the airs out of this balloon because it's been leaking for a while and people

1:10.9

are kind of, uh, been adjusted to the idea. They were kind of expecting it. Yeah, this is where it's

1:16.0

going to be. That was the leader. Yeah, it's kind of leaked out. They were in the red zone.

1:19.3

They were in the red zone and they punched it in. So that's great. Whatever. Um, to me, the big news is the amount of money they're going to spend.

1:27.9

Now, I guess part of that is also like inflation.

1:30.1

Everything's expensive right now.

1:31.5

But I mean, like $3 billion plus dollars.

1:33.8

It looks like $2.5 billion coming out of Josh Harris and other owners' pockets.

1:37.2

Like that is that is a huge commitment from the ownership.

1:41.5

Because a lot of times they want to try to get as much of the public money

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