Washington left RFK Stadium for FedEx Field, and its home-field edge disappeared

The Washington Post (12/14/2021)
  • Washington Football Team’s FedEx Field is the complete opposite of the warm, celebratory atmosphere 25 years ago at its former home RFK stadium.
  • While RFK offered a major home-field advantage by being more compact with attendance overwhelmingly local fans, FedEx is routinely flooded with opposing teams’ fans.
  • Since moving to FedEx (1997), WFT has lost most of its home games and average attendance has collapsed from the mid-2000s peak (91,000) to 52,920.
  • Years of dysfunctional ownership and losing have driven fans away.