Currently, the Commanders play at Northwest Stadium, about five miles east from Washington D.C. and has been the home of the NFL team since 1997 when it was first called the Jack Kent Cooke Stadium. The stadium has been panned by many Washington fans for a ...

A provision to transfer the land that is the site of the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia is no longer included in Congress’ short-term spending bill that lawmakers are racing to pass before a government shutdown.

A provision to hand control of the RFK Stadium campus to the District was stripped from a federal spending bill. Without it, D.C.'s long-discussed plans to forge a new stadium deal with the Washington Commanders are in limbo.