Washington Redskins Tickets
The Washington Redskins have the second-longest season ticket waiting list in the NFL. Fans interested in acquiring Washington Redskins tickets have often had to wait 30 years or more to be allocated tickets for purchase. Only the Green Bay packers have a longer waiting list. Despite the wait--or perhaps because of it--the Redskins boast the most profitable, most attended, team in the NFL, and in all sports. Washington Redskins tickets are treasured by fan and causal watcher alike, and thus can be extremely hard to obtain.| Purchase your Washington Redskins Tickets from a LIVE Inventory, and be sure to guarentee yourself tickets today a shot at getting the seats you want, to the games you want! |
History of the Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins, based around Washington, D.C., are a professional American football team. Playing at Fed-ex Field, in Landover, Maryland, they are headquartered and practice in Ashburn, Virginia. Currently members of the NFL's eastern division, they are the most valuable sports team in the nation, according to Forbes Magazine. Their value, approximately 1.3 Billion, generates an income of more than 300 million a year through ticket and merchandise sales. Additionally, their average per-game attendance also ranks the highest in the NFL. This makes obtaining Washington Redskins tickets one of the hardest football season tickets to acquire; and thus, usually one of the most expensive.Originally called the Boston Braves, the Redskins joined the NFL in 1932 as an expansion team, with a base in Boston, Massachuttes. After only one year of activity their name was changed to the Boston Redskins. The name was conferred in honor of their head coach William Dietz, who was part Native American. It was not until 1937 that the Redskins made their first appearance in the Washington, DC area.
Dan Snyder and the Redskins
Long-time Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke died in 1997, on the eve of opening his new stadium in Landover, Maryland. The stadium was slated to be named in his honor. In his will, Cooke bequeathed the stadium to his foundation, with instructions that the foundation could sell the team. His only son, John Kent Cooke, was unable to raise the necessary funds to purchase the business, and as such it was later sold to Daniel Snyder--a deal that would become the most expensive purchase in sporting event history. (Snyder would later go on to prove his investment was sound--being able to successively raise the price of Washington Redskins tickets year after year with little complaint from fans.)Snyder grew up a Redskins fan. He made his fortune in marketing, and ironically has made a myraid of controversial moves since his purchase of the team, including offering corpoarte naming rights for the stadium to the highest bidder. Indeed, Snyder's successive hiring and firing of coaches has allowed for a parade of characters to grace the field at Fed-ex. It was not until the 2004 season that Snyder was able to secure a coach worthy of recognition, luring Joe Gibbs away from NASCAR to return for a second stint as Redskins head coach and team president. Two conditions came with Gibbs return, however; the first was the Gibbs, not Snyder, would have the primary control over team acquisitions and actions, and the second was that, should the Redskins make the playoffs, Washington Redskins tickets for those games would be allocated on a plan devised by Gibbs.
It is in part because of the Redskins great revenue that Snyder has spend large sums on free-agent acquisitions. Although these moves did not work in his favor in the beginning, he has since learned the ropes, improving his lot by trading for such stars as Santana Moss and Clinton Portis.
The Redskins' season ticket waiting list is the second longest and largest in the sport of football, to only the Green Bay Packers. Fans have had, at some points, waits as long as 35 years to get season tickets, although some have received tickets much earlier-- three years, for example.
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