Obama Administration rebuffs D.C.’s efforts to bring back the Redskins
Source: Washington Post
Efforts to lure the Washington Redskins back to the District have come up against a potentially insurmountable challenge: the Obama Administration’s objections to the team’s name.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser this spring that the National Park Service, which owns the land beneath Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, was unlikely to accommodate construction of a new stadium for the Redskins unless the team changes its name.
Jewell oversees both national park land and America’s trust and treaty relationships with Native American tribes.
Her decision not to extend the District’s lease of the RFK land badly hinders Mayor Bowser’s bid to return the Redskins to D.C. — and boosts efforts to lure the team across the Potomac to Northern Virginia.
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They could serve all sorts of potato-based foods to the crowd, baked, with sour creme/chives; curly fries, steak fries, tater tots shaped like little footballs....why not?
Maybe it would usher in an era of naming teams after food--the Hartford Rutabagas, the Burlington Cucumbers...it might be fun!
Great idea MADem!
Just change the logo!
Perfect for DC. 
I mean Washington was a General.
