The Redskins’ resurgence has
District politicos once again talking about what it would take to relocate the
team back inside the city limits. But Mayor Vincent C. Gray today suggested
there would have to be a controversial prerequisite to any stadium deal: a name
change, or at least discussion of one.
That was the message sent by D.C.
Mayor Vincent Gray, following a press conference Wednesday. Gray said that the
team, which lost to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC wild-card game Sunday, must
consider a name change if it is serious about moving from FedEx Field in
Landover, Md., to a stadium inside D.C. proper, according to Yahoo! Sports.
“I think that if they get serious
with the team coming back to Washington,
there’s no doubt there’s going to have to be a discussion about that,” Gray
said, according to the Washington Post. "I think it has become a lightning
rod, and I would be love to be able to sit down with the team … and see if a
change should be made. There’s a precedent for this, and I think there needs to
be a dispassionate discussion about this, and do the right thing.”
