Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe isn't willing to just let Maryland keep the Redskins. McAuliffe remains committed to bringing the Redskins to Virginia.

Speaking with ESPN 980 on Friday morning -- the team's official station -- McAuliffe revealed that he's in "very serious negotiations" to lure the Redskins away with a new stadium.

His reasoning? The Redskins are already a Virginia team, apparently. According to McAuliffe, Redskins president Bruce Allen told him that roughly two-thirds of the team's revenue comes from residents of Virginia.

"I view this as a Virginia team," he said, according to The Washington Post. "I know they're in Maryland right now. But a majority of the season ticket holders are Virginians, all the players live in Virginia, we have all of your [practice] facilities. ... We're in very serious negotiations, as I assume other jurisdictions are. Listen, we would love to have them."

This isn't the first time McAuliffe has expressed interest in the Redskins, whose lease at FedEx Field in Landover will expire in 2027. This also isn't the first time news of an eventual Redskins move has surfaced. In fact, the last time we checked in, the Redskins were revealing preliminary plans for a new stadium.

That new stadium included an actual moat -- yes, sort of like the days of castles and kings -- that would be used for kayaking, which probably didn't happen in the olden days, unless folks wanted to be snatched out of their boats by lurking crocodiles.

Back to Virginia, though. There's no word if the hypothetical stadium there would include a kayak-able moat. Instead, McAuliffe seems to be focused on something more important: how it'll impact the taxpayers, because stadiums tend to cost a ton of money.

"I think there's a lot of reasons why Dan (Snyder) and company want to bring them to Virginia, because of all the things I just mentioned," McAuliffe said. "But what I always say is it's got to make sense for the taxpayers of Virginia. We've got to negotiate a deal -- my job as governor is to get economic activity -- but you've also got to protect the taxpayer dollars. And we've got to be creative with this thing, so we're protecting the taxpayers, it's in the taxpayers' best interests and it's a win-win for the Redskins."

According to The Washington Post, McAuliffe cited Virginia's population, its abundance of land, and the presence of active-military and veterans in Virginia as reasons why the Redskins would want to move.

McAuliffe then highlighted a potential landing spot for that stadium, as The Washington Post's Dan Steinberg reported:

Later in the interview, McAuliffe discussed the recent economic development in the Tysons Corner area, "going on to Reston/Wiehle, and then to Dulles Airport with the Silver Line, and then further into Loudoun." "I think those areas would be great places for a new stadium," he said, adding that a stadium would have to be near a Metro stop. "Lot of land over there," said ESPN 980's Chris Cooley, who was interviewing McAuliffe. "Lot of open spaces. Where else are you gonna find it?"

So, considering I grew up in the Seattle area and have lived in the Bay Area since I graduated high school, I won't pretend to know how a move from Maryland to Virginia would impact fans in Maryland. I do know, however, that Google Maps says the drive from FedEx Field to Tysons Corner is roughly 34 minutes without traffic. And I'm guessing there would be a decent amount of traffic on game days.

Still, Cooley seemed unconcerned about the commute for Marylanders.

"You want the sense of the heart of the city, but everyone in the city can get in a car and drive to FedEx or drive to National Harbor or drive to [Virginia]," Cooley said. "Does it even matter that the San Francisco 49ers play in San Jose now? They're the San Jose 49ers now."

Yes, it does actually matter that the 49ers play in San Jose now, because it is a pain to get from San Francisco to San Jose, and this time I am speaking from experience. I don't really have a personal preference of where exactly the Redskins play football in the future, but pretending the move wouldn't negatively affect Marylanders is insane.

That being said, please make that moat happens regardless of where the stadium is built. It's the Redskins' best worst-idea since that time they decided to create and operate a "fan" Twitter account.

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