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The Commanders shattered the internet yesterday when they released some renderings of their new stadium in downtown DC! In this segment, The Sports Junkies analyze Washington’s new stadium and discuss what they are most excited about. What are your thoughts on the new RFK stadium?
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00:00By the way, speaking of viral, new renderings of the Commander Stadium came out yesterday.
00:05I know.
00:05I'm sure you guys saw them.
00:06They look great.
00:07And a lot of hype that they're trying to become the loudest stadium in the NFL.
00:12Are you buying what the Commanders are selling, that they're going to be louder than a place like,
00:17I hate to give drab props here, Lumen Field and all the 12s out in Seattle?
00:22It's hard to imagine.
00:23I don't know how they've done the science and they've figured out the acoustics.
00:27Maybe it's going to happen.
00:28I mean, I'm sure they've done something to try to achieve that.
00:33But you need the fan base to have that passion.
00:35But this is the way the acoustics, like you say, the way they design it, that I'm sure can impact
00:41that.
00:41I know this.
00:43My daughter's high school has a brand new gym.
00:45And I'm excited that they get to play in it in their last year.
00:50It's much quieter, though.
00:52Oh, really?
00:52More cavernous than the old gym, which was so loud.
00:56It actually was annoying to me.
00:58But now you go into this gym, and I think it's taking a while for the girls to acclimate themselves.
01:03Yeah.
01:03Because you've got to generate the noise.
01:05Did the tuition go up because it's a fancy, sparkling new gym?
01:08No, but I think they did sell some land to pay for it.
01:13I guarantee it didn't go down.
01:14I'm sure it didn't.
01:15I'm sure it only went up.
01:17Yeah.
01:17If you drive by where my daughter goes to high school, now you see all these new condos and townhouses.
01:22Very nice.
01:24But, yeah, so you have to be careful when you build a new arena, stadium, or whatever.
01:28You have to think about the acoustics.
01:30Well, we're going to see that tonight.
01:31The Bills host the Lions in their brand new Highmark Stadium in Buffalo.
01:37Now, what are they saying as far as loudness goes there?
01:40I mean, that's a rabid fan base.
01:43Those mafia, they tend to be an intense group.
01:47I thought the renderings looked fantastic.
01:49I just wonder, how can they...
01:50I mean, if that's the way it ends up looking, yeah.
01:52How can they replicate exactly how the lighting is going to be?
01:56You know what I mean?
01:56When they do those renderings, it looks very well lit.
02:00I mean, it looked awesome.
02:01I'm like, how do they know?
02:03I don't know.
02:04That's why you hire these companies and pay them hundreds of millions.
02:08Well, not hundreds of millions, but millions.
02:10The Commanders noted the bowl design of the stadium.
02:13It's described as, quote, one continuous sweep from field level to the upper deck,
02:18ensuring clean sight lines and a shared viewing experience that amplifies the intensity of our fans.
02:25So, obviously, when you see it...
02:27Yeah, it's a bunch of gobbledygook, but who knows?
02:29It's written well.
02:30You see the elements of kind of the sofa, like the...
02:36It's not really a scoreboard.
02:37I guess it's kind of a scoreboard all the way around.
02:41They have the big screens on the side.
02:45They also look like they have big screens in the end zone, right?
02:48At least one of the end zones, if not both.
02:53I mean, it looks pretty cool.
02:55You see how they have the cutout there where you can see the Capitol in the background?
02:59How do they not have office buildings blocking the view the way...
03:02I don't know.
03:02...the way we do?
03:03We used to have that view here.
03:07Yeah, and the roof, the translucent roof, I mean, I know a lot of people don't like it,
03:12but I'm okay with it.
03:15You remember back in the day when you went to Nats Park, you could actually see, like,
03:19the top of the Capitol before they built the parking garages?
03:22Yeah.
03:22I actually don't remember that.
03:24Yeah, I mean, it was years ago.
03:25It was probably over a decade ago.
03:27Yeah.
03:28But you could at some point.
03:29Yeah.
03:29And like you mentioned, we used to be able to see the Washington Monument and the Capitol
03:34from where we're sitting, no more.
03:36I think the roof looks pretty good, given that it's going to be a dome.
03:41Yeah, I think it looks awesome.
03:42I mean, it's going to let in that much natural light.
03:45It's not going to feel like you're totally enclosed, hopefully, but you still have, you
03:50know, a nice temperature in there.
03:52It does look like there's still going to be a shadow situation, right?
03:57NFL fields always get the shadow on one side of the field for a while.
04:01And in the renderings, you actually see the shadow.
04:03Yeah, you do see shadow there on one side.
04:06The glare coming in and like being right in the receiver's face when they're trying to
04:09catch a football.
04:10Yeah.
04:11I think that's unavoidable, right?
04:13If you're going to have an open roof or translucent roof, you're going to have shadows.
04:17I mean, I don't know how the hell you could get rid of that.
04:20You'd have to be completely closed.
04:21Yeah, I went to a Ravens game a couple years ago, and we were out of the shadow for a
04:24while.
04:25It was warm enough.
04:27Yeah.
04:27And then when that shadow hit, it was so cold.
04:30Of course.
04:31That's the way it works.
04:32Does anything else jump out at you?
04:33So you see the sort of the...
04:35It's got a couple levels of what it seems like all the way around.
04:38We'll call it scoreboard, but electric board, you know, whatever, imaging.
04:43Then you have at least, it looks like, four massive screens.
04:50Let's let the burgundy and gold look good throughout.
04:53The color scheme looks good.
04:56And it looks like the way it's going to be built, it's going to be...
04:58They talk about how it's...
04:59It's probably going to be loud.
05:00...how it's taller, right?
05:01Yes.
05:01And closer.
05:02They're making it concerning.
05:02You can see how it's not like...
05:04The top end's not spread out.
05:06Yeah.
05:06So I think that's one reason why...
05:08It's not flaring out.
05:08It's more vertical.
05:09Well, they think it's going to be louder.
05:10Yeah.
05:10Because the fans are going to be more on top of each other.
05:16Yeah.
05:16I mean, it looks like a lot of attention to detail.
05:18It's a $4 billion stadium.
05:19Yeah, it's crazy.
05:213.8 billion.
05:22They'll probably go over budget, right?
05:24Doesn't everybody go over budget?
05:26They rarely do.
05:27They come under budget.
05:28Who builds a stadium and it goes under budget?
05:29I don't know.
05:29That's a good question.
05:30I don't know if anybody does.
05:32Well, the architect said,
05:34we designed this bowl from the inside out,
05:36starting with a single question.
05:37What should it feel like when every fan is a part of the game?
05:41Yeah.
05:41That's what Aaron Hollis, he's one of the architects that designed it.
05:46Again, that's a feel-good talking point.
05:48I like it.
05:49I don't know.
05:49They're very positive.
05:51They're very positive.
05:52Well, I mean, that's what they're trying to do when they build it.
05:54Yeah.
05:55Sure.
05:55They want the experience to be good for every single person there.
05:58Have they talked about, are they going to have like,
06:00I'm sure they have.
06:01I just haven't seen it or I forget.
06:03Like, suites on the very, very, very bottom level.
06:07It sounds like some of the rendering showed some open-air suites.
06:10Yeah.
06:11I can't exactly identify where those are,
06:13but I'm sure that's going to be.
06:15No, the problem is.
06:16I'm just going to have the suites all the way toward the back
06:18or all the way toward the top.
06:20It looks like there's some standing room field level.
06:22Yeah.
06:22Right?
06:23But you're kind of obstructed by the guys, you know,
06:27that are on the sideline.
06:28Yeah.
06:28I'd rather be up in those suites on the upper level.
06:31Yeah.
06:32Maybe it's tilted up a little bit,
06:33so you do get a little bit of a view.
06:35Did Dallas start that?
06:36Did Jerry Jones start those field level suites?
06:38Don't they have like restaurants down there on like field level?
06:41Probably.
06:42Don't know.
06:42I feel like they do.
06:45Yeah.
06:45No, it's.
06:46Man, can you imagine how expensive these seats are going to be?
06:50PSLs.
06:50I mean, just the right to buy the seats.
06:52Yeah.
06:54Commander's fans, you got to brace yourself for that,
06:56because that's coming.
06:57Yeah.
06:57That's something new that you've never experienced.
07:00We had a buddy send, JP sent me,
07:03because he heard my son wanted to go to the game,
07:05and sent me an offer to take his brother's suite tickets.
07:10I think it was two of them.
07:11And for that.
07:13To the Seattle game?
07:14Yeah.
07:14And it was just, they just wanted face value.
07:17I think it was like $4.50 a ticket.
07:18I was like, oh, my son's not going to pay $4.50.
07:20No.
07:21$450 a ticket?
07:22That's insane.
07:22Guys just want to go to the game and get drunk.
07:24Yeah.
07:24I mean, he was disappointed.
07:26Then I ended up sharing your number with him afterwards,
07:29because he was pestering me about it.
07:31Yeah.
07:31He did text me.
07:32I figured he would go straight to you.
07:34I'm sorry.
07:35But pester you.
07:36At first, I just didn't want to be the middle man.
07:38My kid's not going to pay $4.50.
07:41He can grasp, and he can go to the game.
07:45And wait until after kickoff.
07:47Oh, you mean scalpers.
07:47When guys are just trying to get rid of tickets.
07:49Yeah.
07:50He can grasp.
07:51Oh, my son?
07:52Yeah.
07:52Yeah, maybe they will.
07:53I don't think they really care that much.
07:55I'm always starting with scalpers that are at events that, like, aren't sold out.
07:59Like, if you're at a sold out event and completely get the scalping bit, there's very high demand.
08:05There's little supply.
08:07Makes sense.
08:08Sometimes you go to, like, you'll go to Nats games, and there's going to be 20 shows.
08:12Yeah, because you're still going to get a discount.
08:14You're still going to get a discount.
08:15You don't get a discount if you walk up to the gate.
08:17I guess.
08:18Yeah, because they're probably getting comp tickets, or they're getting tickets.
08:21And by the way, how does scalping even work now with no paper tickets?
08:26I don't know.
08:27Scalpers, call in.
08:28800-636-1067.
08:30Got to open the lines first.
08:31I mean, how does scalping even work in 2026?
08:34That's a good point.
08:35You don't have physical tickets.
08:37I don't know.
08:37Maybe they just texted you.
08:39You're going to rely on this kind of transfer you tickets?
08:41Maybe.
08:41Well, I mean, you have to see if they're there.
08:43I guess.
08:44Well, you can't print out anything anymore.
08:49That's dead.
08:50I think those days are over.
08:52Like, you got to have your ticket on your freaking phone to get into any event that I've been to.
08:57It's kind of a pain in the neck, too.
08:59Right now, I currently have 28 tickets to a Washington Spirit game that I have to distribute to my soccer
09:04team.
09:04You have to transfer all those yourself?
09:07Transfer them all.
09:07I would rather get in a car and drive it 100 miles an hour off a bridge than transfer all
09:13those tickets to all those people.
09:16Oh, my God.
09:17I get to keep three.
09:18That's going to take you.
09:19I get to transfer 25.
09:20That's going to take you four hours.
09:22I'm still.
09:23Good luck.
09:24I'm still, even though we're not boomers, I feel like a boomer when I get sent the digital tickets.
09:29And then I just get in a little bit of a panic on the day of because I got to
09:33send it to the app and then I got to download it.
09:36And I just get anxious about it.
09:38I'm not comfortable.
09:38I get anxious about it.
09:39I'm not comfortable until it's actually in my phone's wallet.
09:43Yeah.
09:43Because sometimes you'll, like, accept the tickets and then they're just floating out there in the cyber world.
09:49Right.
09:50Until they get into my wallet and I can see them.
09:52Right.
09:52See the barcode on them.
09:54I'm never comfortable.
09:55And then I was like, well, how do I get back to that?
09:57Like, I download it here at work.
09:59Like, all right, how do I find that later today?
10:01It tilts me beyond belief.
10:03Yeah.
10:04I don't really love it.
10:04It's an irrational life tilt.
10:06Yeah.
10:06But it definitely puts me on edge.
10:09But yeah, scalpers may be out of business.
10:11I don't think so.
10:13I don't think so.
10:13So do they just transfer the tickets?
10:15They have a bunch of tickets in their wallet like I do.
10:17How does scalping work in 2026?
10:19I really don't understand it.
10:21I guess you may be just.
10:23Well, you could digitally transfer tickets.
10:24You could digitally transfer tickets.
10:25So someone giving you tickets on your phone.
10:28Yeah.
10:28Just like you would digitally give them to your kids.
10:30Right.
10:30Right.
10:31So a scalper probably is just digitally transferring you.
10:33So now I'm giving the scalper my phone number.
10:35He's got my number.
10:36Well, you're probably Venmo-ing him too.
10:38You're probably not even giving him cash.
10:40Everybody's got your number.
10:41I didn't even think about that.
10:42Scalper's like, I got Zelle.
10:44Yeah, I got Zelle.
10:45Cash App.
10:46Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, whatever.
10:49I think, right?
10:50Isn't that how it's probably working?
10:52People just digitally transfer tickets just the way, right?
10:55It's probably the way it works.
10:57I think so.
10:57I don't know.
10:57This guy on the line says scalping still alive and well.
11:00Still alive and well.
11:01Go to Jason in Woodbridge.
11:03Jason, what's up, man?
11:04You're all with the junks.
11:06Hey, man.
11:07I didn't appreciate you using my name right there.
11:10Well, you should get nobody knows who you are.
11:12There's got to be more than one Jason.
11:14Not too long ago.
11:15What?
11:16I scalped some tickets like a couple months ago from the Nats part.
11:21God emailed them to me.
11:23Okay, exactly.
11:23He said he likes it better so you know that you're getting them.
11:26I liked it before where I hand him money, he hands me tickets, and we part ways.
11:32Yeah, but it could be counterfeit tickets.
11:34My wife and my brother definitely got sold counterfeit tickets.
11:37This is a long time ago.
11:38A Bullets game.
11:39For sure.
11:40It can be digital counterfeit tickets.
11:42It could be a game too, but they worked.
11:45Yeah.
11:45All right, good.
11:46I mean, I think you could counterfeit.
11:48It was great.
11:48It could be an issue digitally or on some paper.
11:50Next time you call, don't use your name.
11:51Yeah.
11:53Yeah.
11:53Yeah.
11:53Yeah, again, it acts like he has a really original name.
11:56Right.
11:56His name's Jason.
11:57There's a billion people named Jason.
11:58Probably a billion of them in Woodbridge.
12:00Don't worry, buddy.
12:01Like we revealed his identity somehow.
12:03Yeah.
12:04Yeah, but so I think it's just the same way.
12:06You're going to have to cough up an email or a phone number for them to text it to your
12:11phone.
12:11Yeah, but it loses some of the appeal of scalping.
12:14Well, you get two tickets, cash exchange right there outside of the venue.
12:18Boom, you're in.
12:19Now, so you tap your phone, give it an email.
12:22And it doesn't necessarily have to be a scalper.
12:24I mean, it could be just a regular fan who just has two tickets, extra tickets just trying
12:27to get rid of them.
12:28I mean, aren't scalpers, aren't they often just getting like comp tickets that they're
12:33flipping?
12:34I don't know where they're getting their tickets from.
12:36I have no idea, but they're still out there, still doing their thing.
12:42All right, don't forget later in the show, Brian Baldinger, he will join us in a little
12:46under an hour.
12:47We'll talk NFL week two with him because it starts tonight as Buffalo hosts Detroit to
12:52kick off week two.
12:53And Dave Richard will help you get your week two fantasy football lineup set coming up
12:57at eight o'clock here on the Junk's.
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