Washington has waited more than a quarter-century for an AFL team — ever since the Washington Commandos folded after the 1990 season. For one year, D.C. experienced an indoor football team in the form of the American Indoor Football League’s D.C. Armor, but to little fanfare.

Washington Redskins fans shouldn’t have a difficult time balancing their fandom with a new squad at arena football’s highest level, given that AFL games take place from April to August.

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In preparation for D.C.’s newest arrival, here are eight connections the Redskins have to the Arena Football League:

Daniel Snyder bought the rights to an expansion AFL franchise seven months after buying the Redskins.

Not even a year after letting the ink dry on his $800 million purchase of the Redskins, Daniel Snyder couldn’t wait to purchase the territorial rights to another football team. Despite being named as a possible investor at the time, Leonsis later went on to say that he wasn’t interested in buying an indoor football franchise.

In December 1999, Snyder paid around $4 million for the rights to a team that was to be called the Washington Warriors and play at the yet-to-be-built Comcast Center (now Xfinity Center) in College Park in spring 2003.

Nothing materialized, however, and the Redskins went on to wear the Warriors’ proposed uniforms for the team’s 70th anniversary season in 2002. The uniforms were a throwback to what the Redskins wore in the 1960s.

Mark Moseley and George Starke tried to buy the Commandos.

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The Commandos averaged 11,525 fans a game but, with a 2-4 record and no ownership agreement in place for the 1988 season, the future looked bleak for the franchise.

AFL President Jim Foster asked former Redskins offensive lineman and then-Commandos director of player development George Starke to lead a group of investors to buy the team. Starke and former teammate Mark Moseley worked together to use their name and popularity in the city to keep the Commandos around but alas, it was to no avail.

The quotes may be almost 30 years old but they could provide a beacon of hope for residents wishing to keep a D.C.-based AFL team afloat.

“I was really surprised,” Moseley told The Post’s Bruce Pascoe in July 1987 when asked about fan turnout. “I thought it was a mixture of football and wrestling fans out there. I think because the game is so close to the field that the fans were really into the game.”

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Redskins Coach Jay Gruden is an AFL legend.

From 1991 to 1996, Gruden put up 281 touchdowns and 15,623 yards as quarterback of the Tampa Bay Storm, becoming the first player in league history to eclipse 15,000 passing yards in a career. He won AFL MVP in 1992, threw for 70 touchdowns in 1996 and won four ArenaBowls during his six seasons as a player.

In his first year as coach of the Orlando Predators, Gruden defeated the Storm in ArenaBowl XII. He was inducted into the Arena Football League Hall of Fame in 1999. The next year, he led the Predators to another ArenaBowl title. His itch to play remained, and it led to his return to the field. Playing for the Predators in 2002 and 2003, Gruden threw 117 touchdowns and just 22 interceptions.

The six-time ArenaBowl champion was named the fourth-greatest player in Arena Football League history for the league’s 20th and 25th anniversaries. Those achievements are pretty spectacular but they pale in comparison to rocking these epic Zubaz pants while playing for the Storm:

Charlie Brown played for the Commandos in 1990.

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A member of the Smurfs and the Fun Bunch, Brown caught eight touchdowns as a first-year player during the 1981 season, helping the Redskins win Super Bowl XVII. He compiled 1,225 yards and caught eight touchdowns the next season to lead Washington to its second consecutive Super Bowl appearance. After an injury-plagued 1984 season, the Redskins traded Brown to the Atlanta Falcons for offensive lineman R. C. Thielemann. After three seasons in Atlanta, Brown never played another down in the NFL.

Like Gruden, time off the gridiron made Brown miss the competition. The 32-year-old Brown returned to the area and suited up for the Commandos in 1990. His season was injury-riddled but he managed to catch two touchdown passes that season, including a 40-yard bomb in the season opener. The Commandos, of course, folded permanently after the 1990 season.

The Redskins worked out an AFL offensive player of the year in 2005.

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Lacking depth and size at the wide receiver position after trading Rod Gardner to the Carolina Panthers before training camp in 2005, the Redskins worked out 6-foot-3 Damian Harrell, who caught 41 touchdown passes for the Colorado Crush.

The Redskins chose not to sign Harrell and won 10 games in 2005 without him. Harrell won his second consecutive AFL offensive player of the year award in 2006 with 1,920 yards receiving and 60 touchdowns. Harrell, who owns seven league receiving records, was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in 2014.

The Redskins installed arena league uprights at Redskins Park for Kai Forbath in 2013.

After asking the Redskins equipment staff to install AFL uprights at Redskins Park, Forbath got his wish leading up to the Week 9 contest against the San Diego Chargers. The Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers had done the same thing when he played for them, and he wanted to replicate that with the Redskins. Forbath wanted to improve his accuracy and help narrow his line of sight on field goal attempts.

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“You have to focus a lot more, obviously,” Forbath said. “It gives you confidence. When you’re making it on that and you get to the game, they looking freaking huge. How can you miss on those?”

The uprights didn’t help initially, with Forbath missing his first two attempts against the Chargers. After his hiccups against San Diego, Forbath made his final 14 field goal attempts of the 2013 season.

Chris Samuels’s brother is an AFL Hall of Famer.

As great as six-time Pro Bowl left tackle Chris Samuels was over 10 seasons with the Redskins, his brother’s AFL career may have been even better. Lawrence Samuels, a wide receiver and linebacker, was known as one of the greatest two-way threats in AFL history. He played 15 seasons (1994-2000, 2002-2010) with the Storm (the most by any player with team) and one (2001) with the New Jersey Gladiators.

Samuels won three ArenaBowls and retired with 11,790 career receiving yards, 169 receiving touchdowns, 488.5 tackles, 34 fumble recoveries and 32 interceptions. In 2008, Samuels became the first player in AFL history to catch 1,000 passes and was just the sixth in pro football history to do so at that point. His 207 games played are the second most in league history. The five-time all-Arena selection was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in 2013. Now he’s entering his third season as coach of the Storm.

Current and former Redskins thrived in the Arena Football League.

Most of the players on AFL rosters have never played a regular-season down in the NFL. They either cut their teeth in college or worked their way up through the lower arena ranks.

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But for guys like defensive end Kelvin Kinney, the Redskins’ sixth-round pick in 1996, it appeared he could have an impact in Washington after missing his rookie season. Kinney started 12 games in 1998 but didn’t play another down in the NFL after that season. The 6-foot-6 defensive end went on to carve a niche in the AFL, playing 11 seasons with five teams.

Fullback Chad Dukes spent time with the Redskins in 1999 and 2000. He developed into one of the toughest players in AFL history, earning 1998 Ironman of the Year with the Albany Firebirds. The three-time all-Arena selection played eight years and ran for a league-record three straight seasons with at least 200 yards.

R-Kal Truluck attended Redskins training camp in 1997, impressing as an edge rusher in the AFL. He earned AFL rookie of the year in 2001 and was named lineman of the year in 2002. He played four seasons in the NFL before making a comeback to the AFL in 2008. At age 38 he started two games with the Orlando Predators in 2013.

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Before officially changing his name to Stylez G. White in 2008, defensive lineman Greg White spent time with the Redskins in 2003 and 2004. As a member of the Predators in 2007, he earned defensive player of the year by setting the AFL’s single-season record with 15 sacks.

Former Redskins wide receiver Anthony Armstrong caught 93 passes for 1,274 yards and 12 touchdowns in his two seasons (2007-2008) with the Dallas Desperados. He became one of Donovan McNabb’s favorite targets in D.C., catching 44 passes for 871 yards and three touchdowns in 2010.