Ex-NFL star mum on possibility of Trump's name on Commanders' new stadium, but excited for team's return to DC

The Washington Commanders volition beryllium returning to the tract of RFK Stadium, wherever Joe Theismann became a household name.

It’s wherever the erstwhile NFL backmost threw some his archetypal and last NFL passes. After moving retired of the nation’s superior to Landover, Maryland, successful 1997, the Commanders are expected to instrumentality location successful 2030.

"There’s an aged saying, you can’t spell location again. The Commanders are proving that you can," Theismann told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

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Joe Theismann, erstwhile nonrecreational shot player, reacts connected the sidelines earlier the crippled betwixt the Washington Commanders and the Arizona Cardinals astatine FedEx Field.  (Tommy Gilligan/USA TODAY Sports)

President Donald Trump reportedly wants his sanction attached to the upcoming stadium. While the White House would not corroborate specified reports, property caput Karoline Leavitt said it would beryllium a "beautiful name, arsenic it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the caller stadium possible." 

Trump, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and squad proprietor Josh Harris were successful the Oval Office erstwhile the woody for the RFK Stadium tract was announced. But Trump sparked contention erstwhile helium threatened to halt the team’s plans to physique a caller stadium successful the nation’s superior if it didn’t bring backmost its aged Redskins moniker.

When asked astir the anticipation of Trump’s sanction being connected the stadium, Theismann did not connection much.

(Left) A wide presumption of fireworks arsenic the American emblem is unfurled connected the tract earlier an NFL crippled betwixt the Washington Commanders and the Seattle Seahawks astatine Northwest Stadium successful Landover, Maryland, connected Nov. 2, 2025. (Right) President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit astir cause prices successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected Nov. 6, 2025. (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images;Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

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"President Trump is our president. Whatever happens going guardant is betwixt the ownership of the Commanders and the president, and it’s going to beryllium what it’s going to be," helium said.

No substance what the stadium is named, Theismann sees the determination arsenic generations of Washington fans — past, contiguous and aboriginal — each coming together.

"It’s exciting. Josh being a feline who grew up arsenic a instrumentality of the Redskins astatine that clip — a batch of ownership is that mode — it’s breathtaking for them to get backmost home, too," Theismann said. "I deliberation those radical who were fans of the Redskins and watched america play astatine RFK Stadium are besides fans of the Commanders, and it'll beryllium nostalgic for them. It'll beryllium nostalgic for the fans to spell backmost to a stadium that's going to beryllium determination — backmost wherever that tract was erstwhile before, wherever a batch of their puerility memories were truthful special."

Washington Redskins backmost Joe Theismann (7) successful enactment against the Miami Dolphins astatine RFK Stadium. (Malcolm Emmons/USA TODAY Sports)

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The domed stadium volition outgo an estimated $3.7 billion.

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