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Virginia State Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw had been trying to lure the Washington Commanders to build a new stadium in Virginia, but he is now giving up on his stadium bill for the moment, per Laura Vozzella of the Washington Post.
Saslaw blamed the repeated controversies within the organization, most recently with defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio referring to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol as a “dust-up.”
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Commanders Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio: <br><br>”I can look at images on the TV, people’s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dust up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re going to make that a major deal.” <a href=”https://t.co/99mF3uxUTD”>pic.twitter.com/99mF3uxUTD</a>
Del Rio apologized for his wording afterward.
“This obviously was not very helpful to put it mildly, but there’s so many other things out there,” Saslaw said. “There were just so many things out there that a lot of people are saying, ‘Saslaw, this thing needs to wait.'”
The Commanders reportedly spent $100 million on land in Virginia last month, per John Keim of ESPN.
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