Fedex FieldFedExField is a football stadium, which was originally known as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium. It is located near the Capital Beltway in Prince George's Country, Maryland, United States. It is one of the largest stadiums of National Football League with seating capacity of 91,704. The stadium is known as the home of Washington Redskins football. The stadium was opened in 1997 in the honor of one deceased owner of the team and was known as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium and site work was known as Raljon. Before the stadium there was Wilson farm. The name 'Raljan' given to site work is a portmanteau of the first name 'Ralph' and 'John' of the son of Jack Kent Cooke.
The stadium is having five levels that is lower level, club level, lower and upper suit levels and the last upper level. The lower level is named as 'George Preston Marshall Lower Level', the Club named as 'Joe Gibbs Club Level' and the upper level named as 'Pete Rozelle Upper Level'. The suit level is having about 200 suite, loge and luxury boxes of owner. There are various events that occur on this stadium but there are some regular events that take place every year. Prince George's Classic football is the game, which is being host by FedExField on every year. The game takes place between two universities, which are historically black. They also host other collage football games and 2004 Black Coaches Association Classic, which is being played between the universities of Virginia Tech and Southern California Trojans. It has also hosted four preliminary matches and quarter final of the 1999 Women's World cup. Except these, the stadium hosts many matches regularly.
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There is a special exit known as Exit 16 (Arena drive) that opens on the event time only and was built from Interstate 495. After all construction Daniel Synder purchased both stadium and the team. The FedEx Corporation then got all the rights of the name in November 1999 who changed the older name to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington.