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What, exactly, is the supposed economic benefit of a practice facility that sits idle 250 or more days a year?

ah, I'm going to give part of an answer to this, but let me preface it by saying that I think the training facility is a bad choice.

Now, here is how someone explained it to me. Players go to the training facility for something like 200 days a year, and to the stadium like 20. So which one do you think they choose to live near? Most Redskins, according to my friend, live in Northern Virginia to be close to the training facility.

If the training facility were in DC, they would - logic goes - want to live in DC. Then we would be able to tax those fat paychecks and the paychecks of other facility employees.

I don't know how accurate any of that is, but if it's all true there is at least some economic argument for it.

Still, this is a bad location for it, and the price is almost surely too high.

by David C on Mar 23, 2012 4:49 pm • link • report

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