#RFK stadium

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Singer David Johansen hanging out with a few members of Lynyrd Skynyrd at RFK Stadium in Washington DC - May 30, 1976

L to R: Leon Wilkinson, David Johansen, Gary Rossington, and Ronnie Van Zant

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RFK Stadium, June 10, 1973

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Hill East Dead End

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Jonathan Nicholson at HuffPost (11.29.2024):

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) has been pushing the Washington Commanders NFL team to “restore” its former logo, which depicted a Native American, as it looks to find a new stadium. In 2020, bowing to years of public pressure and sponsors’ skittishness, the Washington, D.C., team ditched its Redskins name, widely seen by Native American groups as a slur.

When it dropped that name, the Commanders also retired the logo used since the early 1970s: a drawing of a Native American in profile with two feathers in his hair, based on Chief Two Guns White Calf of Montana’s Blackfeet Nation. Now, as the team tries to find a new stadium in the Washington area, it has been pressured by a Montana senator, Republican Steve Daines, to again use the logo in some way, despite its potential to revive a controversy that Native groups had hoped was dead and buried. To aid his cause, Daines leveraged a popular bipartisan bill supported by both the team and District of Columbia officials that could help the city land a new stadium and bring the team back from the suburbs. He kept the legislation, which would let the District of Columbia revitalize and reuse the site of the shuttered and decaying Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, bottled up in committee for months until Nov. 20. Daines said he’s only trying to right a wrong done to one of his constituents and the Blackfeet tribe when the logo was retired along with the old team name.

“We’ve had good discussions with the NFL and with the Commanders. There’s good-faith negotiations going forward that’s going to allow this logo to be used again. Perhaps revenues going to a foundation that could help Native Americans in sports and so forth,” Daines told Fox News on Nov. 20, after voting for the bill he’d been blocking. Daines added that the logo’s cancellation in 2020 was a case of “woke gone wrong.” “The irony [is] that they were canceling Native American culture as the [diversity, equity and inclusion] movement went way too far,” he said. But the idea of using the logo again has drawn opposition from at least one high-profile Native group and is likely to raise the same questions about athletic team iconography and the representation of Indigenous people that the old name did.

Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R) seeks the reinstation of the Washington Commanders’ racist logo that was discarded in 2020.

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October 19, 1969 - Washington Redskins linebacker Sam Huff waits for the snap during a 20-14 victory over the New York Giants at RFK Stadium.

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Washington Commanders Return to RFK: A Game-Changer for DC's Future

On April 29, 2025, Washington, D.C. officials and NFL leadership announced the Washington Commanders’ return to their historic home at RFK Stadium. The move, led by Mayor Muriel Bowser and Commanders’ owner Josh Harris, involves a $2.7 billion private investment in a state-of-the-art stadium as part of a $3.6 billion mixed-use redevelopment. The revitalization spans 180 acres along the Anacostia…

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Real World 51: Redskins Magic: The Story of the 1982 Super Bowl Champion Washington Redskins

. Source:The Daily Press Of the three Super Bowl Championships that the Washington Redskins won, the 1982 Championship is my favorite because no one other than the Redskins themselves, expected them to do anything. I believe the Redskins knew they were good. Joe Theisman knew he was a good quarterback and could play. John Riggins knew he was a good tailback who just needed an opportunity and be…

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RFK stadium. Washington DC

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Opening of RFK Stadium in Washington DC in 1969

L-R: Maria Shriver, Courtney Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Sydney Lawford

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This rite of a Washington spring is now 20 years old

Thursday was not like any other day this week–but it did fit into a pattern that set in starting in 2005. Meaning, I once again had no other choice but to take off work to go to the Washington Nationals’ home opener. My first 15 years of life in and around the District did not include that rite of spring, because major-league baseball (as opposed to intern softball on the Mall) was an…

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Hot Pink Lean

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FYI, since Charles was the one who taught Erik to find that place between rage and serenity, that means Charles is inexorably connected to that place within Erik’s mind and heart. So whenever he does a massive feat with his powers, like lift the submarine or the Golden Gate Bridge or the RFK Stadium, he does it by thinking of Charles.

Charles is Erik’s serenity.

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DEBORAH FROST, DOKKEN, GROUPIES, HEAVY METAL, JAMES HETFIELD, KIRK HAMMETT, METALLICA, MONSTERS OF ROCK

Stories From The Road: Deborah Frost and Metallica

In Deborah Frost, Stories From the Road, music on December 7, 2008 at 2:28 pm

By Deborah Frost

“I once walked into the dressing room of a very huge metal band — well, they were not quite as huge then as they are now, oh what the hell, they are probably the biggest band in the world — Metallica (and they didn’t get that way without airing their own dirty laundry very publicly from revealing in various cover stories tales of the drummer being fellated under the stage nightly during the bass solo to the somewhat drippier venereal complications).

Anyway, they were somewhere in the middle of the bill on one of those late 1980s “Monsters of Rock” concerts at RFK Stadium in Washington, I think it was. There was a lot of waiting around in the days they were all lumped together without their own private jets or drivers and everyone seemed to be in a grumpy mood, particularly James Hetfield, who was sitting next to two fairly unattractive girls who could have been models — only for one of those “BEFORE” acne-medication ads.

Instead of his usual warm greeting, James barely grunted at me that he was doing an “interview.” Which was a little strange, given that he was not really even having a conversation with the skinnier one of the two girls, who was not equipped with any of the usual tools of the trade, like a tape recorder or pencil or piece of paper, only a flimsy little sun-dress which was only remarkable in its cheapness and that it was fairly inappropriate for the weather but did reveal all of her other lack of equipment in every other department.

James suddenly got up, jerking her by the wrist, and disappeared toward the bathroom where other members of the crew and band were, eager to try out the brand new little video cameras (they had just come on the market) they had been playing with. Kirk Hammett also grabbed what I called my Helen Keller camera — one of those point and shoot 35 mm things (this was in the pre-digital era) that even she could have operated.

There was a great deal of commotion when James discovered that Kirk was holding them both over the top of the bathroom stall — where — well, several months later, when I had forgotten all about it and the prints came back from the developer, I was shocked to discover, right in the middle of some happy family vacation, exactly what he was doing with this young lady crouched on the toilet and could not believe that I had not been arrested for pornography. Then again, maybe that only happens if it involves pictures of children and it was VERY clear in vivid living color that James was NO child.

It was almost the end of Metallica as we knew it, when James suddenly roared out of the bathroom, grabbing Kirk by the throat with one hand and the video camera, from which he ripped the film, with the other, before stomping on it and practically smashing the guitarist’s head against the wall as he begged for mercy.”

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October 3, 1971: Diron Talbert and Chris Hanburger sack Craig Morton for a 7-yard loss in the first quarter of the NFL week 3 game between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The Redskins beat the Cowboys 20-16. Washington's points were scored on a first quarter, 57-yard run by Charlie Harraway, a 2nd quarter, 50-yard touchdown pass from Billy Kilmer to Roy Jefferson and 2 second half field goals by kicker Curt Knight.