Gov. Wes Moore has caused Maryland to be the first state to let a National Football League playoff team — with the 2024 Offensive Rookie of the Year Jayden Daniels at quarterback — leave the state (“Maryland sad to lose Commanders to RFK Stadium, says it proposed ‘very competitive offer,’” April 28).
At the tail end of 2024, Washington, D.C., needed a favorable U.S. Senate vote to be able to use federal parkland to build a stadium, no matter what Washington Commanders team owner Josh Harris said. So anti-sport Governor Moore huddled with Maryland’s two U.S. senators at the eleventh hour to cast the deciding votes that allowed the Commanders to leave, disappointing millions of adoring Maryland football fans after 27 years of residency.
Moore clearly was out-negotiated by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, just like when former Maryland teams, the Capitals and Wizards, proposed leaving D.C.
— Robin Ficker, Boyds
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