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Northwest Stadium is an American football stadium in Landover, Maryland, United States, located 5 miles (8 km) east of Washington, D.C. It is the home stadium of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). From 2004 until 2010, it had the NFL's largest seating capacity at 91,000; it currently seats 62,000. [12]
[51] [52] [53] On December 22, 1996, the Redskins won their last game at RFK Stadium 37–10 over the Dallas Cowboys, reprising their first win there in 1961, before 56,454, the largest football crowd in stadium history. The Redskins then moved east to Jack Kent Cooke Stadium in 1997, leaving D.C. United as the stadium's only major tenant for ...
The Redskins would go on to make the 2012–13 NFL playoffs after winning their final seven games of the season en route to winning their division championship for the 13th time in franchise history, including defeating the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day by a score of 38–31, this marked the first time the Redskins had won at Cowboys ...
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Griffith Stadium was the location of 1940 and 1942 NFL Championship Games. The 1940 game was the 73–0 triumph by the Chicago Bears over the Redskins, the highest-scoring shutout game in the history of the NFL. The Championship Game in 1942 was essentially a rematch, with nearly the same players, and this time the Redskins upset the previously ...
On July 9th, 1932, the team that ultimately would be known as the Washington Redskins was founded.Today, the name is at the center of a hot debate. On July 8th, 2015, a federal judge refused to ...
In 2020, the team retired the controversial Redskins name and briefly played as the Washington Football Team before rebranding as the Commanders in 2022. [ 1 ] Over 93 seasons, the Commanders have a regular season record of 641–648–29 (.497) and a playoff record of 25–21 (.543). [ 2 ]
The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday that it will drop the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo immediately, bowing to decades of criticism.