Redskins Racist Suspect Owner may be leveraging the politically charged battle over the team’s name to move the stadium back to downtown D.C. and squeeze concessions out of local legislators

[The White Price] From [HERE] In an interview with CSN Washington Redskins owner, Snyder declared that the team has “started the process” of designing a new stadium, despite the fact that its current home in Maryland isn't old enough to vote or buy cigarettes.

Built in 1997, FedEx Field can only be considered old by the same guy who insists “Redskins” is a term of “honor and respect.” It turns out, those might be related: Former Washington general manager Vinny Cerrato has postulated that Snyder may be leveraging the politically charged battle over the team’s name to move the stadium back to downtown D.C. and squeeze concessions out of local legislators:

The only way I see him eventually changing the name is if -- IF -- he gets a new stadium out of it, downtown, where old RFK was. And he builds a stadium bigger than [Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones's], which he would do, bigger and better than Jerry’s. He gets a Super Bowl. All that. I said that’s the way that maybe he would change the name. Getting the property, getting the land, getting a good deal from the city to make concessions to change the name. I don’t know.

Like Sterling, Snyder “has a ton of money,” which makes his clinging to his team’s name with all his might all the more puzzling. But he’s even worse than Sterling if he’s actually choosing to prolong this battle and using it for political gain simply because he’s unsatisfied with the current stadium location.