Junkies Debate The Commanders Name Change And New Stadium
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
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The Sports Junkies debate several topics surrounding the Washington Commanders.
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| 0:00.0 | So Mark Ein, who's one of the minority owners of the commanders, joined Kevin Sheehan on his |
| 0:05.6 | podcast over the weekend. And he had an interesting nugget on the commander's stadium search, and I'm taking this from Jake Russell's Twitter. |
| 0:14.7 | He's a Washington Post sports writer. |
| 0:18.0 | Moving into a new stadium could take seven to nine years with 2030 likely being the early end of a move-in date for the commanders into |
| 0:29.2 | wherever their new digs wind up being. |
| 0:32.3 | And I also reemphasize that rebranding isn't the top priority |
| 0:37.1 | currently and adds that rebranding is quote a really big lift way bigger than people understand which is what I've always |
| 0:46.5 | say talking about rebranding away from commanders to potentially right and what was your |
| 0:50.9 | prediction two years mine Mine is by the beginning. |
| 0:54.0 | By the beginning, I believe in the 2027 season. |
| 0:57.0 | I believe Kakes is going to be a big loser. |
| 0:59.0 | I think you would be a big loser on that one. |
| 1:00.0 | I could be, that's fine. |
| 1:01.0 | If I do, if I lose a bet, won't't be the first time certainly won't be the last yeah it's up yeah |
| 1:07.6 | so what's more upsetting to you the fact that the rebrand is way on the back burner and is a massive lift as they say or |
| 1:15.5 | the fact that they're not going to move into a new stadium for seven to ten years. |
| 1:18.4 | The fact that the rebrand is not a higher priority. That's bigger new, That's what brought you more. |
| 1:25.0 | I just feel like the stadium, I mean, we're already halfway through 2024. |
| 1:29.8 | And there's, there hasn't been a site picked. You know there's no designs of the state there. There's nothing. They got nothing right now. |
| 1:37.0 | I mean it's a six to seven year process. To me, them moving in and breaking, you know, like playing their first game in a new stadium in |
| 1:44.8 | 2030 or 31 32 whatever did that that sounds like about the right sort of timeline |
| 1:50.6 | but when you're saddled with a bad identity of |
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