Jack Kent Cooke and Joe Robbie were strong-willed, self-made men who came up with their own money to build stadiums for their NFL teams in an era when most other owners were demanding that ...

It’s Jack Kent Cooke ... hardly qualifies Cooke as an authority on Baltimore, Glen Burnie, Guilford, Essex or Laurel. But he has $160 million of his own money to build a stadium, which sets ...

Some key dates in Jack Kent Cooke’s efforts to build a new ... Prince George’s County Executive Wayne Curry sign the stadium deal. Construction begins. * April 6, 1997: Cooke dies of a heart ...

The late Jack Kent Cooke’s ... difference between Cooke’s two sports complex legacies — the Forum and the Prince George’s County, Maryland, football stadium he opened in 1997 that briefly ...

The executors of Jack Kent Cooke's estate deserve ... when they rejected John Cooke's offers to buy the Redskins. The team and its stadium were sold for about $800 million to Daniel M.

Although private-public partnerships are the trend in building NFL stadiums across the country, the late Jack Kent Cooke ... Ravens’ new stadium currently under construction. Cooke, who died ...

Washington's home stadium opened in 1997 as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, but in 1999, it was renamed FedEx Field after Daniel Snyder bought the franchise from the Cooke family. Snyder reached a 27 ...

He developed the Forum in Inglewood, California and the stadium we now know as FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland. In my opinion, Jack Kent Cooke was the best owner in the NFL. He did not meddle in ...

Interesting FedExField Stadium facts: First titled Jack Kent Cooke Stadium after Redskins ... Redskins' first playoff win since 1991. Stadium construction started in 1996 and ended in 1997.

he thought the team should have forgone the money the team earned by renaming the stadium FedEx Field and instead kept Jack Kent Cooke's name on it. "The problem was we were so successful ...