Today,
FedEx Field is one of the premier stadiums in the
NFL. After 30 years of playing at RFK Stadium, then
owner Jack Kent Cooke envisioned a new stadium for
the Redskins in 1987. After nine years of
negotiations,
Cooke finally found a location to build a new
stadium in Prince George County, Maryland.
Construction began
immediately on the stadium. Cooke never saw the
stadium completed. He died several months before the
stadium
was completed. Initially, the stadium was named,
Jack Kent Cooke Stadium. |
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FedEx
Field has something for everyone. The party starts
three hours before kickoff with live music
throughout the stadium. We open the concession
stands, hospitality villages and novelty stores. It
continues two hours after the game with a live band
on the Club Patio, the Post Game show by WJFK Radio
in the West End Zone Sports Bar, and rounds in the
DC 101 Rock Bars. This party will be available to
anyone with a club level pass.
The Washington Redskins played their first game at
Jack Kent Cooke Stadium on September 14, 1997. With
85,000 seats, Jack Kent Cooke Stadium became the
largest stadium in the NFL. Three tiers of red and
yellow seats circle the entire playing field. Two
video-boards are located beyond both endzones. In
1999, Daniel Snyder bought the Redskins. The naming
rights were sold to Federal Express, and Jack Kent
Cooke Stadium was renamed FedEx Field. Also in 1999,
$35 million in improvements were completed at FedEx
Field. Another $20 million of improvements were
completed in time for the 2000 season, which
included a new owners club suite level, escalators
to the upper deck, and additional seats were added.
FedEx Field has many amenities including several
restaurants that overlook the field and a Redskins
Hall of Fame. Displayed on the upper level balcony,
circling all the way around the seating bowl, is the
Redskins Ring of Fame that contains 40 names of
Redskins players and coaches. Located above the
north endzone are championship flags that
commemorate the Redskins playoff history.
For
the first time, Redskin fans will enjoy culinary delights
in their own large restaurants located at each endzone.
What's more, you won't miss a second of activity on
the gridiron because each restaurant has an open view
to the playing field. The widest imaginable menu of
foods, including a choice variety of cuisine, wines
and beers that will suit the tastes of every red-blooded
Redskin fan.
The
main concourse, named the George Preston Marshall Concourse,
will have innumerable choices of food from every imaginable
land, including but not limited to: Italy, Greece, India,
China, Japan, Germany and of course, down-to-earth American
foods.
Restrooms
galore. Sparkling, meticulously clean, and to our knowledge,
more per capita than any other stadium in America. Plus,
there will be more womenís restrooms than menís; indeed
rare among stadiums anywhere. And thatís the way it
ought to have been from the beginning.
Some
Washington Redskins history: George Preston Marshall
founded the Redskins franchise in 1932 in Boston,
Massachusetts, as the Boston Braves, sharing Braves
Field with the Boston Braves baseball team. A year
later, Marshall moved his team to Fenway Park and
changed the team's name to the Redskins. The
Redskins were not profitable, and even an Eastern
Division championship in 1936 failed to excite
Boston fans, so in 1937 Marshall
moved the club to Washington, D.C.
The
Redskins Hall of Fame traces the legendary history of
the Redskins from 1937 when the club moved from Boston
to the present day, illustrating and bringing to life
all facts and figures about Redskin greats of the past,
such as Ken Houston, Len Hauss, Joe Jacoby, Bill Kilmer
and many, many more; as well as mementos of the past
that will conjure up fond memories of the greatest Redskin
games and players. Videos of Redskin championship games
and Super Bowls will be constantly on view in the Hall
of Fame. And while youíre there, youíll have the opportunity
to acquire all sorts of Redskin souvenirs, each one
tastefully displayed for you to make your choice.
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