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Speaker 2: And then I realized as it was ending, people were

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, people were burned stuff.

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Speaker 3: And I mean guys had like, you know, ranches and

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Speaker 5: At a time.

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Speaker 6: You're this hardcore full weall player. But you see fans,

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Speaker 7: It's a little after seven pm on December twenty second,

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Speaker 7: nineteen ninety six, inside the walls of a football stadium

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Speaker 2: But some of these people were in their seventies, and

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Speaker 5: You're going to see those people ever again.

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Speaker 8: There we'll talk about the RFK and the stadium and

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Speaker 8: the last time and what days you don't hate the Cowboys.

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Speaker 7: Here too, Championships and Super Bowls, hogs and Hall of Famers,

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Speaker 7: Shaking stands and flying cushions. Cheers turn to tears. This

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Speaker 7: football history. The last game at RFK. The idea for

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Speaker 7: the nineteen fifties. In nineteen fifty eight, President Eisenhower finally

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Speaker 7: signed the District of Columbia Stadium Act, which authorized a

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Speaker 7: ground in nineteen sixty The stadium, the one we'd know

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Speaker 7: October first, nineteen sixty one, with the Burgundy and Golds

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Speaker 9: A dream of decades comes true next Sunday, when the

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Speaker 9: gates swing open on Washington's new twenty four million dollar

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Speaker 9: Beauty stadium, spawned by an Act of Congress and now

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Speaker 10: All the land.

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Speaker 9: When the Washington Redskins played the New York Giants one

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Speaker 7: It didn't take Washington very long to fall in love

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Speaker 11: The way that the architects designed it, where the noise

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Speaker 7: Brian Mitchell, super Bowl Champion running back in return specialists

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Speaker 11: Certain things about it. You look across the field and

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Speaker 11: The way they would be right there right on you.

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Speaker 12: It was the It was the intimacy knowing where people

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Speaker 7: Charles Mann, three time Super Bowl champion, Washington defensive end

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Speaker 12: The stands rocking. I mean that just juiced us up.

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Speaker 2: Smelled the same way every time you went. You know,

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Speaker 13: The main reason it was so special for us was

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Speaker 7: Man Gary Clark, two time Super Bowl champion wide receiver

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Speaker 13: Came into RFK, your chances of winning. Don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 13: I mean, we could be down by twenty points in

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Speaker 7: Former Team beat writer for The Washington Post, Christine Brennan.

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Speaker 14: The other wonderful piece of the puzzle in the story

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Speaker 14: just amazing. Vistas and everything about it just screamed out,

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Speaker 14: this is the nation's capital, this is Washington, and this

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Speaker 7: So many iconic franchise moments unfolded on that grass, But.

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Speaker 2: There wasn't one time that I walked out of the

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Speaker 10: As Komer dropped right back being rushed. PA what neat

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Speaker 10: Watch now Washington.

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Speaker 8: Red can run.

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Speaker 3: John Regan got off the frame, bat it in the air,

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Speaker 5: I didn't let go.

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Speaker 8: I don't believe it.

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Speaker 2: I want to play kick the day kept the path

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Speaker 7: RFK wasn't just a home in the way all sports

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Speaker 7: the many, no matter where they came from, literally rocked

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Speaker 7: Father Time began taking its toll. That, in combination with

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Speaker 5: You have to.

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Speaker 1: Understand there's a lot of nostalgia RFK, There's no question

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Speaker 7: Charlie Casserly, Washington general manager from nineteen eighty nine to

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Speaker 4: But it was an older stadium.

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Speaker 1: From the team's point of view, the teams were moving

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Speaker 4: What did a new stadium mean. It meant club seats. Okay,

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Speaker 1: None of these things existed at RFK. So here's Jack

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Speaker 1: Kent Cook announced this, he will build a stadium. Well

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Speaker 1: things that happened. Mayor Barry got arrested, that killed that deal.

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Speaker 1: ten year odyssey to keep the team in Washington. That's

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Speaker 7: A deal does finally get done in the DMP in

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Speaker 7: the very last days of nineteen ninety five, Maryland and

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Speaker 7: on the site of a dairy farm in Landover, Maryland, April.

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Speaker 9: Twenty fifth, nineteen ninety six. The Washington Redskins will begin

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Speaker 9: Dallas on December twenty second. Redskins owner Jack Kent Cook

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Speaker 7: The nineteen ninety six season doesn't go as well as

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Speaker 4: It couldn't have been a better rival, you know than the.

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Speaker 11: And you didn't have to get up for a game

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Speaker 8: Well, that was um motivated. Okay, if we can.

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Speaker 13: Finish this thing off the right way, especially meeting the cowboard,

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Speaker 7: Lifelong Washington fan Mark McGarry was at that December twenty

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Speaker 3: The Cowboys were you always talking smack and they weren't

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Speaker 4: They were resting their players.

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Speaker 3: The coach said, so I'm like, yeah, you know, this

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Speaker 4: It was meaning to us because we knew this was

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Speaker 3: But but the Cowboys, there's always been a love heat

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Speaker 3: thing there and to this day we always root for

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Speaker 3: them to lose, no matter, no matter who they are.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was a you know, bris knight. It

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Speaker 4: Everybody was just ready to go. It was a very

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Speaker 10: If a stadium could only talk for the last time.

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Speaker 10: OURFK Stadium site today's match between the Dallas Cowboys and

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Speaker 10: As Boniole and the Dallas kickoff team are out on

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Speaker 8: Did you see that fat down? Darry Allen put the

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Speaker 8: Oh wave Botha just threw that one up for grabs.

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Speaker 8: Now you're talking, Now you're talking. This is the way

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Speaker 4: That was as deep.

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Speaker 8: A Mson without a Redskin touchdown. This is what it's

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Speaker 12: The Redskin band.

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Speaker 8: Hails of the Red Skin. They're going to the new stadium.

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Speaker 7: Washington goes on to silence the doubters and electrifize RFK

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Speaker 7: After the victory, the Burgundy and Gold faithful give the

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Speaker 2: Course of the game, as I was trying to get

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Speaker 4: This woman goes, hey, can you help me? I said,

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Speaker 3: I don't have a shovel, but she was literally wearing

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Speaker 6: You saw people, like you said, taking pieces of the stadium.

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Speaker 6: It's a memory for them, and so you know that

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Speaker 8: My final plots are really about being here at RFK.

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Speaker 8: Like I said earlier, there's no place that I would

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Speaker 8: there were so many great moments here and the moments

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Speaker 8: It was a combination to me, the memories of all

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Speaker 8: and say, Doug Hunt, this was pretty.

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Speaker 5: Good, and that was goodbye.

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Speaker 7: The Burgundy and Gold started their move to the freshly

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Speaker 5: One time, we were at FedEx and my dad had

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Speaker 2: My mom and my stepfather were giving me a ride home,

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Speaker 11: But it was just a great spot, you know, in

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Speaker 8: I out feel that way.

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Speaker 7: There's a new chapter in the legacy of RFK ready

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Speaker 7: to be written. To learn more and pledge your support,

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Speaker 7: Hailtals was narrated, produced, and research by me Hannah Liechtenstein,

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Speaker 7: senior copywriter for the Washington Commanders. It was produced and

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Speaker 7: edited by Jason Johnson. Executive producers are Ryan Yoakum and

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Speaker 7: and stay tuned for more Haletales episodes this summer. Thank

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