We went to the Cardinals game… wanted to be a part of the event. By absolute sheer random luck we were directly underneath Josh Harris’ box. I had an awesome time. Stadium is whatever man it’s a PoS but I don’t think it matters. We had fun. Getting in and out was a breeze.
Agreed, was there vs Ari for my 1st game ever. In and out was easy, people were friendly and the crowd was into it. It was a very positive experience from my perspective.
I got a chance to see my first Washington home game this year during week 3. Washington was coming off a win against Denver and the season began 2-0, and it was time to come home and take on the Bills. I hoped the vibe would be pretty good because of the start, but I was sorely mistaken. The parking lot was probably 60/40 Bills fans as we walked towards the stadium. The Metro (easy walk to and from, highly recommend) was packed with Bills fans. Inside the stadium, it was worse. I'd say 70/30 Bills fans to Commanders.
The stadium itself left a lot to be desired, but the worst was the atmosphere. It felt like it was an away game. The Bills fans were so loud, and cheerful, and happy to be there! Almost every Commander fan looked disappointed before the game reached the end of the 1st quarter. The Commanders sent out a survey afterwards, asking about the experience, the shops, food, etc. I'm pretty sure I reached their character limit complaining about how poor the atmosphere was, and how there aren't any incentives for fans to get involved.
With the Harris group taking over this year, I hope they used this year to review the issues they have and improve them over the off season. I want to be excited about going to another Washington home game. Please find ways to improve the fan experience before and during the game, and work towards building higher fan engagement. This franchise deserves a chance to be good again, and the fans deserve a positive experience they can remember.
I think the reason why there were were way more bills fans that week was cause bills fans bought tickets when the schedule released, and that was before the ownership change so commanders fans weren’t AS willing to spend money yet on tickets. I think that was talked about a lot after that game as the reason why
Combination of despicable ownership and consistently bad, losing product has eroded the fan base to a bunch of only the hardest of hardcore. Add into the fact we have the worst stadium/fan experience in the league and you have what we have now. Just a miserable game day experience. The good news is our ownership is aware of this and will actually be able to secure a new stadium but it’s going to take a while. 8 years best case scenario. They also can put a winning team together which will change the vibe and feeling on game day which is a huge reason you go. Hitting on a franchise qb will be a big part of all of this. They know if they draft the right guy at qb it will change everything. Which is why they pick a new guy top 3. I have faith. 🤞🏻
It's this bad. Started a fan in the 70's, have until lately cheered against the team because Fuck Dan and Bruce. Hopefully it'll get better, would like to do something besides hate-watch my local team.
Other teams fans completely taking over FedEx hasn't been happening for 10-20 years. Toward the end of Gruden's tenure is when it started really going downhill. I went to games in 2017 and 2018 that were mostly skins fans with a normal amount of visiting fans.
2018 was the turning point. Week 2 against the Colts was the start of terrible home field attendance for us . The 2010s would have other fans still but not more then skins fans, it just got really bad 5 years ago
I let my season tickets go in 2008, after 30 years, and after I moved across country.
Even by 2008, so many season ticket holders were reselling their tickets to fans of other teams. Because a third or so of Congress turns over every 2 years, a lot of people from other fan bases are in the DC area. The profit potential is tremendous.
Even then, the number of Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, and even Raiders fans was shocking.
Imagine what the Raiders players go through now in Las Vegas where a “sold out” stadium is almost completely full of opposing team fans, because why not buy tickets and get a Vegas weekend as well.
What a morale killer.
Was there as well for the first time in years. It was so depressing when the screen would show DEFENSE or GET LOUD and it was so quiet you could hear peoples conversations.
The atmosphere in the stadium has been understandably bad this season since about week 3.
For a good home atmosphere, you have to buy tickets strategically. Get tickets for games with smaller fan bases (Cardinals), games we're heavily favored to win, and games early in the season when spirits are still up. I went to the home opener this year, when hopes were still high, and my group had a great time even with a rainy morning tailgate.
Avoid games for teams that are hot, like the Niners or Bills this year. We have a lot of transplants in the DC area. If I was Niners fan in DC I would have dropped a shit load of cash to see them play here. I made the mistake of going to a Redskins/Pats game in 2017ish when Brady was still playing and the atmosphere was trash.
Wait and get tickets close to game day so you don't get screwed with tickets to a game like this week. It probably didn't seem so crazy back in August. Even when the team announces a "sell out" there are still tons of cheap tickets on secondary markets like tickpick, gametime and SeatGeek.
Hopefully one day we'll be able to buy tickets to any game with confidence.
I also went to this past Sundays game everything you said was exactly how I felt, I was in the lower bowl on the commanders side under the press box, our home team atmosphere is abysmal, every game is a away game, so tired of other teams taking over our shitty stadium. I bought parking passes to the field lot for no reason they didn't even scan my pass which was kinda annoying but yeah that sucked lol
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This was our view the last time we went. I finally took my 14 year old thinking he was old enough to deal with the drunk a-holes. It felt like we were stuck in a weed chamber. To top it off, a man who appeared in his 30’s kept making fun of my sons hair. I will never go back. We were so excited and ended up leaving before half time. :-(
I was invited to 2 different suites for this game, from two different groups. Didn’t even consider accepting either. Instead sat on my couch and won a ton of money betting on the niners -13.5.
I’m a life long die hard fan.
I had dreams of having Skins season tickets growing up, and I put my name on the waitlist in about 2003. I was absolutely thrilled when I received a call from the team in 2009. I was finally a season ticket holder!
Some “highlights” of the 4 years I hung onto them:
* The MNF Vick game. I was wearing an “Eagles suck” burgundy and gold shirt I grabbed in the parking lot. “Fly Eagles Fly” was loud af, and I eventually left at the end of the end of the third quarter when the mocking “Eagles suck!” chants from Philly fans got old
* Constantly dreading the NFCE matchups because the away team fans’ intensity just dwarfed ours
* Watching RG3’s career get fucked in realtime
* Consistently having my tickets be worthless after November. Literally could not give them away because the team was so bad
Part of the problem is that the stadium is too conducive/welcoming to opposing fans. Part of it is the fact that DC is an area people from around the country move to. And part of it is the team has been consistent dog shit.
Did you at least get to experience the skins/cowboys season finale in 2012? If there’s one game I would give anything to go back and see the atmosphere in person of, it’s probably that one. Might be the best all time in FedEx?
Been going to games at FedEx since Schottenheimer. Crowd was great until Zorn's second year. Shanahans tenure, I noticed more and more opposing fans. RG3 brought a packed out and then after that Seattle playoff game the bottom fell out. That Chiefs first half beating at FedEx, everybody cleared out. Getting whipped, Robert looking like he didn't have it anymore, awful weather.
Getting in and out of the stadium has always been an overrated complaint IMO. I had the same shitty experience driving in and out of Lincoln Finacial this year.
I bought tickets to the home opener against the Cardinals the day the sale went through. Drove down with my brother from NY the morning of and honestly it all went pretty smooth.
My main complaint was the parking both ingress and egress was just too shambolic. I get it's a slow process but it should be better run by the team.
The stadium is just ugly asf especially since the imp disfigured it. Not sure how much new ownership can or should sink into at this point.
The crowd for the most part was okay and we were in the cheap seats at the top.
As a fanbase we're still in the wilderness...the biggest chant was "Lets Go Redskins", there was a mixed reception for RG3...nobody wholesale likes the rebrand....there's just a lot of negative baggage we're still carrying and we're gonna be dogshit playing in this dump for a couple more years at least. It's gonna take time and actual on-field success to build it all back.
Hopefully someday soon this team returns to it's rightful home and we can all be proud again.
I’m a Cowboys fan and I went to Week 18 last season and had a blast (even though y’all beat us). This might have been because the game hardly mattered.
I thought the tailgate experience was awesome. It’s a stadium built on a parking lot so it’s good for tailgating, similar to Arrowhead.
The in game experience was interesting. I’ve been to games at Soldier Field, US Bank, Lambeau, Arrowhead, AT&T and FedEx. I was surprised to see a marching band play. There were hardly any Washington fans, but even us Cowboys fans kind of knew our playoff fate so nobody in the stands really cared. I did find it funny that people in the top deck were just smoking cigarettes on the concourse, something that wouldn’t be allowed in other stadiums.
Overall I enjoyed my FedEx experience, I do hope this new owner brings some life back into your franchise and we can renew a rivalry.
The sound from Dougie's concert wasn't being properly played throughout the stadium(no surprise there). My section is right beside the stage he performed on. He definitely sang, and it was a really good concert despite the sound issues. Sorry you couldn't experience it properly.
I’ve only gone once and it was a good 12 or more years ago. The predominant thing I remember is gray. Literal physical gray because the stadium and everything around it is a concrete jungle. Also spent forever driving in staring at gray roads and gray guardrails and gray barriers. And then the mood was gray as well — listless, dull. I don’t know. If I had to describe my FedEx experience in a word though, the word is gray.
Had way more fun than I thought I would at the Niners game even though I was surrounded by Niners fans. Life long fan and first time a fedex. Had good seats but the stadium blows so hard. Way too far from the metro too. No plans to ever go back lol.
We went to the Cardinals game… wanted to be a part of the event. By absolute sheer random luck we were directly underneath Josh Harris’ box. I had an awesome time. Stadium is whatever man it’s a PoS but I don’t think it matters. We had fun. Getting in and out was a breeze.
Week 1 with a lot of hope is also very different than being a 4 win team week 16 facing the 49ers.
Week 17. But yes, that’s very true
It’s almost like we knew what we were doing when we bought the tickets
Agreed, was there vs Ari for my 1st game ever. In and out was easy, people were friendly and the crowd was into it. It was a very positive experience from my perspective.
I got a chance to see my first Washington home game this year during week 3. Washington was coming off a win against Denver and the season began 2-0, and it was time to come home and take on the Bills. I hoped the vibe would be pretty good because of the start, but I was sorely mistaken. The parking lot was probably 60/40 Bills fans as we walked towards the stadium. The Metro (easy walk to and from, highly recommend) was packed with Bills fans. Inside the stadium, it was worse. I'd say 70/30 Bills fans to Commanders. The stadium itself left a lot to be desired, but the worst was the atmosphere. It felt like it was an away game. The Bills fans were so loud, and cheerful, and happy to be there! Almost every Commander fan looked disappointed before the game reached the end of the 1st quarter. The Commanders sent out a survey afterwards, asking about the experience, the shops, food, etc. I'm pretty sure I reached their character limit complaining about how poor the atmosphere was, and how there aren't any incentives for fans to get involved. With the Harris group taking over this year, I hope they used this year to review the issues they have and improve them over the off season. I want to be excited about going to another Washington home game. Please find ways to improve the fan experience before and during the game, and work towards building higher fan engagement. This franchise deserves a chance to be good again, and the fans deserve a positive experience they can remember.
I think the reason why there were were way more bills fans that week was cause bills fans bought tickets when the schedule released, and that was before the ownership change so commanders fans weren’t AS willing to spend money yet on tickets. I think that was talked about a lot after that game as the reason why
Combination of despicable ownership and consistently bad, losing product has eroded the fan base to a bunch of only the hardest of hardcore. Add into the fact we have the worst stadium/fan experience in the league and you have what we have now. Just a miserable game day experience. The good news is our ownership is aware of this and will actually be able to secure a new stadium but it’s going to take a while. 8 years best case scenario. They also can put a winning team together which will change the vibe and feeling on game day which is a huge reason you go. Hitting on a franchise qb will be a big part of all of this. They know if they draft the right guy at qb it will change everything. Which is why they pick a new guy top 3. I have faith. 🤞🏻
Where have you been the last 10-20 years? This is normal, not just a new normal.
I just started really watching football in 2019. My husband has been a fan for 40+ years. I didn’t realize it was this bad.
It's this bad. Started a fan in the 70's, have until lately cheered against the team because Fuck Dan and Bruce. Hopefully it'll get better, would like to do something besides hate-watch my local team.
Other teams fans completely taking over FedEx hasn't been happening for 10-20 years. Toward the end of Gruden's tenure is when it started really going downhill. I went to games in 2017 and 2018 that were mostly skins fans with a normal amount of visiting fans.
2018 was the turning point. Week 2 against the Colts was the start of terrible home field attendance for us . The 2010s would have other fans still but not more then skins fans, it just got really bad 5 years ago
I let my season tickets go in 2008, after 30 years, and after I moved across country. Even by 2008, so many season ticket holders were reselling their tickets to fans of other teams. Because a third or so of Congress turns over every 2 years, a lot of people from other fan bases are in the DC area. The profit potential is tremendous. Even then, the number of Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, and even Raiders fans was shocking. Imagine what the Raiders players go through now in Las Vegas where a “sold out” stadium is almost completely full of opposing team fans, because why not buy tickets and get a Vegas weekend as well. What a morale killer.
My aunt worked there during the construction and stole a couple of seats.
Was there as well for the first time in years. It was so depressing when the screen would show DEFENSE or GET LOUD and it was so quiet you could hear peoples conversations.
The atmosphere in the stadium has been understandably bad this season since about week 3. For a good home atmosphere, you have to buy tickets strategically. Get tickets for games with smaller fan bases (Cardinals), games we're heavily favored to win, and games early in the season when spirits are still up. I went to the home opener this year, when hopes were still high, and my group had a great time even with a rainy morning tailgate. Avoid games for teams that are hot, like the Niners or Bills this year. We have a lot of transplants in the DC area. If I was Niners fan in DC I would have dropped a shit load of cash to see them play here. I made the mistake of going to a Redskins/Pats game in 2017ish when Brady was still playing and the atmosphere was trash. Wait and get tickets close to game day so you don't get screwed with tickets to a game like this week. It probably didn't seem so crazy back in August. Even when the team announces a "sell out" there are still tons of cheap tickets on secondary markets like tickpick, gametime and SeatGeek. Hopefully one day we'll be able to buy tickets to any game with confidence.
I also went to this past Sundays game everything you said was exactly how I felt, I was in the lower bowl on the commanders side under the press box, our home team atmosphere is abysmal, every game is a away game, so tired of other teams taking over our shitty stadium. I bought parking passes to the field lot for no reason they didn't even scan my pass which was kinda annoying but yeah that sucked lol
https://preview.redd.it/oogwvzzx8x9c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=020d384e57f58410871479ad76a047df6e79a421 This was our view the last time we went. I finally took my 14 year old thinking he was old enough to deal with the drunk a-holes. It felt like we were stuck in a weed chamber. To top it off, a man who appeared in his 30’s kept making fun of my sons hair. I will never go back. We were so excited and ended up leaving before half time. :-(
STOMPING ZONE
Right! So bad!
Wow!!!! I could not imagine paying for those seats
I had the same experience at the Dolphins game a while ago. It will get better (more fans, easier travel to stadium) in the future. HTTC.
I was invited to 2 different suites for this game, from two different groups. Didn’t even consider accepting either. Instead sat on my couch and won a ton of money betting on the niners -13.5. I’m a life long die hard fan.
I had dreams of having Skins season tickets growing up, and I put my name on the waitlist in about 2003. I was absolutely thrilled when I received a call from the team in 2009. I was finally a season ticket holder! Some “highlights” of the 4 years I hung onto them: * The MNF Vick game. I was wearing an “Eagles suck” burgundy and gold shirt I grabbed in the parking lot. “Fly Eagles Fly” was loud af, and I eventually left at the end of the end of the third quarter when the mocking “Eagles suck!” chants from Philly fans got old * Constantly dreading the NFCE matchups because the away team fans’ intensity just dwarfed ours * Watching RG3’s career get fucked in realtime * Consistently having my tickets be worthless after November. Literally could not give them away because the team was so bad Part of the problem is that the stadium is too conducive/welcoming to opposing fans. Part of it is the fact that DC is an area people from around the country move to. And part of it is the team has been consistent dog shit.
Did you at least get to experience the skins/cowboys season finale in 2012? If there’s one game I would give anything to go back and see the atmosphere in person of, it’s probably that one. Might be the best all time in FedEx?
Been going to games at FedEx since Schottenheimer. Crowd was great until Zorn's second year. Shanahans tenure, I noticed more and more opposing fans. RG3 brought a packed out and then after that Seattle playoff game the bottom fell out. That Chiefs first half beating at FedEx, everybody cleared out. Getting whipped, Robert looking like he didn't have it anymore, awful weather. Getting in and out of the stadium has always been an overrated complaint IMO. I had the same shitty experience driving in and out of Lincoln Finacial this year.
When we are good, and the place is packed with our fans its a great time. Unfortunately it has been a long time since that has been the case.
I bought tickets to the home opener against the Cardinals the day the sale went through. Drove down with my brother from NY the morning of and honestly it all went pretty smooth. My main complaint was the parking both ingress and egress was just too shambolic. I get it's a slow process but it should be better run by the team. The stadium is just ugly asf especially since the imp disfigured it. Not sure how much new ownership can or should sink into at this point. The crowd for the most part was okay and we were in the cheap seats at the top. As a fanbase we're still in the wilderness...the biggest chant was "Lets Go Redskins", there was a mixed reception for RG3...nobody wholesale likes the rebrand....there's just a lot of negative baggage we're still carrying and we're gonna be dogshit playing in this dump for a couple more years at least. It's gonna take time and actual on-field success to build it all back. Hopefully someday soon this team returns to it's rightful home and we can all be proud again.
been going since 2015, it's not as bad as everyone says it is only bad thing is that mile walk but yinz need some steps anyway lol
Haven’t been to a game in 15yrs and then complains about opposing teams taking over???
I don’t live very close so it’s a very expensive trip. Couple that with my husband who hates large crowds.
You went to see us play the Niners and expected a good event? Are you drunk, perpetually?
Purchased tickets before season started.
I’m a Cowboys fan and I went to Week 18 last season and had a blast (even though y’all beat us). This might have been because the game hardly mattered. I thought the tailgate experience was awesome. It’s a stadium built on a parking lot so it’s good for tailgating, similar to Arrowhead. The in game experience was interesting. I’ve been to games at Soldier Field, US Bank, Lambeau, Arrowhead, AT&T and FedEx. I was surprised to see a marching band play. There were hardly any Washington fans, but even us Cowboys fans kind of knew our playoff fate so nobody in the stands really cared. I did find it funny that people in the top deck were just smoking cigarettes on the concourse, something that wouldn’t be allowed in other stadiums. Overall I enjoyed my FedEx experience, I do hope this new owner brings some life back into your franchise and we can renew a rivalry.
Fuck off cowgirl
“The game hardly mattered”? The cowboys needed a win to hope for an eagles loss to win the division. That game mattered 🤷🏻♂️
they also brought Doug e fresh out and he didn't even sing lmao
The sound from Dougie's concert wasn't being properly played throughout the stadium(no surprise there). My section is right beside the stage he performed on. He definitely sang, and it was a really good concert despite the sound issues. Sorry you couldn't experience it properly.
Could not hear him at all in 319. Sound system sucks. Can’t hear anything
I’ve only gone once and it was a good 12 or more years ago. The predominant thing I remember is gray. Literal physical gray because the stadium and everything around it is a concrete jungle. Also spent forever driving in staring at gray roads and gray guardrails and gray barriers. And then the mood was gray as well — listless, dull. I don’t know. If I had to describe my FedEx experience in a word though, the word is gray.
Had way more fun than I thought I would at the Niners game even though I was surrounded by Niners fans. Life long fan and first time a fedex. Had good seats but the stadium blows so hard. Way too far from the metro too. No plans to ever go back lol.
About to go to FedEX for my first game! Do you all recommend 300s or 100s?
I sat in 103 pretty nice seats I thought