If you hadn't heard, in the last minutes of the budget battle that took place just before the holidays, Washington D.C. was given control of the RFK stadium site. This had been opposed (partly because of a totally wrong price tag Elon Muskrat put on it -- in fact, it didn't cost anything), but a couple of deals at the end of the process got it done.
So the city can try to get the Washington Commanders to play at a new stadium that they'll eventually hope to build there. And they want to make it a multi-sports venue.
Enter cricket.
Cricket in D.C.? Team owner lobbies city for stadium at RFK site.
"The approximately 4,000-seat facility would be temporary while development plans for the site are worked out, team officials say, but they hope eventually to build a permanent one if Congress approves legislation to hand over the land to D.C.
In efforts to reach that goal, Sanjay Govil, who owns Washington Freedom, has hired a lobbying firm with ties to the D.C. government entity that oversees the RFK site."
(Washington Freedom is the name of the cricket team. Very quietly, they won the championship of the league they play in. But as the article explains, they don't play in Washington D.C., despite the name.)
If it looks like this, I'd be stunned. But this is a concept picture of what it could look like.
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