Washington Commanders make stunning return to Washington D.C.

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00:00Promise made.

00:23Promise made.

00:25So I want to start by saying, welcome home.

00:30Let's give our commanders a big Washington, D.C. welcome.

00:42We are so happy to talk this morning about bringing our team home to the sports capital,

00:50back to RFK, where they belong.

00:55And I couldn't be more excited for our city, our team, and our fans.

01:02Josh and the entire team at the commanders, thank you.

01:07And I asked this lady to join me when I became mayor ten years ago.

01:14She thought she was retired, and she told me she would stay for a year.

01:18These projects are not easy projects to take on.

01:21They're complex.

01:23They involve a lot of decision-making along the way.

01:27They're difficult periods.

01:29But I would fall back on the leadership, the leadership of the mayor who had the vision

01:34and the willingness to take this on.

01:37I think, you know, that does not happen in cities or states without that kind of a political

01:43leader standing up and saying, this is good for our community, which we obviously agree.

01:47And of course, Josh, who understood the, not just the emotional reason for coming back to

01:54the district, but also this was really the right thing for this community.

02:00This will be a tremendous economic driver, but more importantly, I think it will be a send

02:05a signal to everyone in the world, frankly, of this community and the way they're going

02:10in the direction they're going.

02:13This is an exciting day, and we do hope it is the first of a few historic announcements

02:18along the trail here.

02:19Our panel has agreed to take a few questions now, so why don't we do that, and let's start

02:24with John Kime from ESPN.

02:27You know, it was less nostalgia.

02:29It was more just the fact that we had grown up here gave us that vision to, you know, not

02:35look at the crumbling concrete that was there, but remember in our minds the vivid nature

02:41of what Washington football was all about and how it really brought a city that was socioeconomically,

02:49you know, distinct and challenged at that point, with lots of groups of people together,

02:53right?

02:54No matter where you were from, who you were, your race, color, religion, on Sundays you

03:00were a Washington football fan.

03:02And so that really did contribute to our focus on it and then, you know, kind of brought

03:09it to life.

03:10And then, look, let's face it, Washington is amongst, if not the most important city in

03:14the world.

03:15It's a gateway city for the United States of America.

03:19And, you know, to have a stadium and a site, you know, where you can see the Washington

03:25bombing, you can see the governor, and I remember watching on TV those shots and having John Madden

03:31talk about, we're here in the nation's capital and there's the Washington Monument, there's

03:35the White House, there's the nation's capital, and then there's RFK, that bull, right?

03:40And so all that stuff was incredibly motivating to all of us.

03:54All right.

03:55Okay.

04:00I like that gold sharpie.

04:09Perfect color for it, isn't it?

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