What is FedExField?
[[File:Guardsmen Support the 58th Presidential Inauguration 170119-Z-YI114-090.jpg|thumb|View of the inside of FedExField]] '''FedExField''' is an [[American football]] stadium located in [[Landover, Maryland|Landover]], [[Maryland]] that serves as the home for the [[Washington Commanders]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL). They first started to build the stadium on March 13, 1996. The then-Washington Redskins first started playing in the stadium on September 14, 1997. In their first game, they defeated the [[Arizona Cardinals]] 19–13 in overtime.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/redskins/longterm/1997/gamerep/week3/skins15.htm|accessdate=November 18, 2023|title=Overtime Victory Rings In the New|publisher=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/170914028|accessdate=November 18, 2023|title=Redskins 19-13 Cardinals (Sep 14, 1997) Final Score|publisher=[[ESPN]]}}</ref> The stadium at first didn't have a sponsor and was named '''Jack Kent Cooke Stadium''' after [[Jack Kent Cooke]], the team's owner who had recently died before the stadium opened.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/redskins/longterm/1997/stadium/timeline/1997/editname.htm|accessdate=November 18, 2023|title=What's in a Stadium Name?|publisher=The Washington Post}}</ref> The stadium would keep this name until 1999. On November 21, 1999, sponsorship naming rights were sold to [[FedEx]] in a $205 million, 27-year agreement and the stadium was renamed '''FedExField'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/redskins/longterm/1999/gamerep/week11/fedex22.htm|accessdate=November 18, 2023|title=Absolutely, Positively It's Now FedEx Field|publisher=[[ESPN]]}}</ref> On July 2, 2020, FedEx sent a letter to team owner [[Dan Snyder]] and the Redskins. In the letter, they demanded that the team change its name from the offensive Redskins name or they would be pulling their sponsorship of the team and from the stadium afte