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00:00Promise made.
00:23Promise made.
00:25So I want to start by saying, welcome home.
00:30Let's give our commanders a big Washington, D.C. welcome.
00:42We are so happy to talk this morning about bringing our team home to the sports capital,
00:50back to RFK, where they belong.
00:55And I couldn't be more excited for our city, our team, and our fans.
01:02Josh and the entire team at the commanders, thank you.
01:07And I asked this lady to join me when I became mayor ten years ago.
01:14She thought she was retired, and she told me she would stay for a year.
01:18These projects are not easy projects to take on.
01:21They're complex.
01:23They involve a lot of decision-making along the way.
01:27They're difficult periods.
01:29But I would fall back on the leadership, the leadership of the mayor who had the vision
01:34and the willingness to take this on.
01:37I think, you know, that does not happen in cities or states without that kind of a political
01:43leader standing up and saying, this is good for our community, which we obviously agree.
01:47And of course, Josh, who understood the, not just the emotional reason for coming back to
01:54the district, but also this was really the right thing for this community.
02:00This will be a tremendous economic driver, but more importantly, I think it will be a send
02:05a signal to everyone in the world, frankly, of this community and the way they're going
02:10in the direction they're going.
02:13This is an exciting day, and we do hope it is the first of a few historic announcements
02:18along the trail here.
02:19Our panel has agreed to take a few questions now, so why don't we do that, and let's start
02:24with John Kime from ESPN.
02:27You know, it was less nostalgia.
02:29It was more just the fact that we had grown up here gave us that vision to, you know, not
02:35look at the crumbling concrete that was there, but remember in our minds the vivid nature
02:41of what Washington football was all about and how it really brought a city that was socioeconomically,
02:49you know, distinct and challenged at that point, with lots of groups of people together,
02:53right?
02:54No matter where you were from, who you were, your race, color, religion, on Sundays you
03:00were a Washington football fan.
03:02And so that really did contribute to our focus on it and then, you know, kind of brought
03:09it to life.
03:10And then, look, let's face it, Washington is amongst, if not the most important city in
03:14the world.
03:15It's a gateway city for the United States of America.
03:19And, you know, to have a stadium and a site, you know, where you can see the Washington
03:25bombing, you can see the governor, and I remember watching on TV those shots and having John Madden
03:31talk about, we're here in the nation's capital and there's the Washington Monument, there's
03:35the White House, there's the nation's capital, and then there's RFK, that bull, right?
03:40And so all that stuff was incredibly motivating to all of us.
03:54All right.
03:55Okay.
04:00I like that gold sharpie.
04:09Perfect color for it, isn't it?