Commanders’ future in Washington is decided months after Congressional resolution on derelict RFK Stadium site

By ALEX RASKIN

Washington D.C. and the NFL’s Commanders are set to announce a deal Monday to bring the team back within the city limits after a nearly three-decade run in Landover, Maryland.

As reported by the Washington Post, team owner Josh Harris and Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser will hold a joint news conference Monday morning to announce the agreement, the details of which have yet to be fully revealed. DailyMail.com has reached out to the team for confirmation.

Weeks earlier, NBC Washington reported the Commanders and D.C. were nearing an agreement on a $3 billion deal to bring the team back to the site of the now-derelict RFK Stadium. A source familiar with the talks stressed to DailyMail.com that no deal had been reached at that time, but described negotiations as ‘progressing.’

The Commanders would reportedly put up as much as $2.5 billion in the deal, while Washington DC is being tasked with raising $850 million.

The team has been looking for a new stadium for several years, and that search moved to a new level when Harris’ group bought the Commanders from previous owner Dan Snyder in 2023. Places in Washington, Virginia and Maryland have all been under consideration.

Washington D.C. and the NFL’s Commanders are set to announce a deal Monday to bring the team back within the city limits after a nearly three-decade run in Landover

Team owner Josh Harris and Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (pictured) will hold a joint news conference Monday morning to announce the agreement

The team’s next home will be erected on the Anacostia waterfront near the derelict RFK Stadium, where the team then known as the Redskins played from 1961 until 1996.

Getting back to the franchise’s former home is a path that included Harris and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill in December to pass legislation to transfer the 170-plus acres of land from the federal government to D.C.

It made it through Congress at the eleventh hour, and then-President Joe Biden signed it into law in early January.

The Commanders’ lease at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, runs through 2027. Harris called 2030 a “reasonable target” for a new stadium.

The team played at RFK Stadium, 2 miles east of the Capitol, from 1961-96 before moving to Maryland.

Harris and several co-owners, including Mitch Rales and Mark Ein, grew up as Washington football fans during that era, which included the glory days of three Super Bowl championships from 1982-1991.

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Commanders’ future in Washington is decided months after Congressional resolution on derelict RFK Stadium site

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