However, according to The Washington Post, ticket office employees improperly sold tickets directly to ticket brokers for several years before the practice was discovered in 2009. The waiting list for season tickets was reportedly over 160,000 names long. Ī special exit, Exit 16 (Arena Drive), was built from Interstate 495, the Capital Beltway.Īfter Snyder's purchase, the stadium's naming rights were sold to FedEx in November 1999 for an average of $7.6 million per year. This ended when Daniel Snyder bought the team from the Cooke estate, and the team now gives the stadium's address as Landover. Notably, Cooke was able to register Raljon with the United States Postal Service as a legal alternate address for the 20785 ZIP code of Landover, Maryland, where the stadium is located, and went to some lengths to require media to use Raljon in datelines from the stadium.

The stadium opened in 1997 as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, in honor of the recently deceased owner of the team, and the stadium site was known as Raljon from the first names of Cooke's sons – 'Ralph' and 'John'. The land was previously Wilson dairy farm. Lack of parking facilities and support prompted a second site selection. In 1994, Jack Kent Cooke sought to build a new stadium on the grounds adjacent to Laurel Park Racecourse along Whiskey Bottom and Brock Bridge roads. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. History įedExField was built as a replacement for Washington's prior venue, Robert F. FedExField is in the Summerfield census-designated place and has a Landover postal address. From 2004 until 2010, it had the largest seating capacity in the NFL at over 91,000. The stadium is the home of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). Washington Commanders ( NFL) (1997–present)įedExField (originally Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) is an American football stadium located in Summerfield, Maryland, 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Washington, D.C.

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