10.12.2008 11:28 am
Nice day, ugly traffic
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
LANDOVER, Md. — Here’s a tip for anyone who might be attending a Redskins home game in the future: take the Metro.
The traffic getting to FedEx Field, which seats about 92,000, this morning was indescribable. Our trip from the team hotel in Arlington., Va., — a distance of about 30 miles — took 90 minutes. Plus, the infrastructure in the immediate stadium area is horrendous. No rhyme nor reason to where you’re trying to go, and lousy signage.
OK, enough complaining. It’s a gorgeous day, temp in the mid-70s, cloudless skies.
Here are the Rams inactives:
*WR Keenan Burton
*CB Tye Hill
*RB Antonio Pittman
*G Roy Schuening
*T John Greco
*WR Drew Bennett
*WR Dane Looker
*Brock Berlin (3rd QB)
All for now . . . more after the game.
I’m here in the DC area for two months for work. Have also done five month, one month and quite a few one and two weeks stints here over the past 18 years. Traffic is horrible around here. I never drive to a ballgame, and always attempt to stay off the roads anytime in the vicinity of a rush hour. Agree totally with the signage issue. This whole area, in terms of the road system, appears to have been set up to be confusing, and the awful signage only makes matters worse. I haven’t been to FedEx field, but the new Nationals Stadium doesn’t have a lot around it either. Although, unlike Ballpark Village, the Nationals version of the St. Louis pipedream actually appears to be underway.
Between the terrible traffic and the agitated redskins fans - i thought i would never get out of the parking lot. On more than one occasion people bluntly told me that they were not going to let me out cause I was a rams fan.
I just laughed - I’d walked into the heart of the redskin nation fully decked out in my rams colors and not only survived but flourished. What a most excellant day!