Two key state senators on Wednesday separately raised doubts about legislation meant to lure the Washington Commanders football team to Virginia with a new, taxpayer-supported stadium, signaling that the effort could be in trouble when the General Assembly returns to the Capitol next week.
Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax City), for years one of the team’s most ardent boosters in Richmond, announced that he will not vote for a stadium bill — in part because he has lost “confidence in the Washington Commanders as a viable NFL franchise.”
His concerns were rooted chiefly in the team’s on-field woes, diminished fan base and abandonment of its original name, which the team dumped amid criticism that it was a racial slur but the senator supported as a historic and storied National Football League brand.
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