It sure didn’t take new Washington Commanders’ owner Josh Harris long to deliver more positive energy and confidence to the long-suffering football fanbase.
On Friday morning, the Commanders announced via X that their Week 1 opener against the Arizona Cardinals at FedExField has sold out.
That’s certainly a nice tidbit of news ahead of the 2023 season. After all, the Commanders ranked dead-last in attendance a year ago with an average of 58,106 fans per contest, according to ESPN.
Last year, the Commanders’ home opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 1 had just an 86 percent capacity, via ESPN (58,192 fans). Clearly, the long-awaited change in ownership has brought a new wave of optimism in DC.
The Commanders were a once-proud NFL franchise that won three Super Bowl championships under Joe Gibbs between 1982 and ’91. But after Dan Snyder took over as owner in 1999, the team sunk into dysfunction and complete disarray.
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Washington went 164-220-2 under Snyder. They won just two playoff games during his 24 years of ownership, with the last victory coming in the 2005 NFC Wild Card Round. On top of that, the organization hasn’t recorded double-digit wins in a season since 2012, when they finished 10-6.
