Donald Trump breaks the big NFL news with commissioner Roger Goodell while League reinforces the tires in Washington

The NFL design of 2027 is Comes to the National Mall At the invitation of President Donald Trump.

The 78-year-old football fan made the announcement on Monday White house In addition to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Washington Commanders Owner Josh Harris and Democrat DC Burgemeester Muriel Bowser and housing secretary Scott Turner, a former Redskins defensive back.

Trump and Bowser were previously at odds with a number of local problems, but the couple seemed jovial during the announcement of Monday of the Oval Office.

“I don’t think there was something like that,” Trump said about organizing the design in the National Mall. “That’s a good idea.”

Trump’s office was spread with personalized Washington Football Memorabilia, including

Washington DC Has never organized the event since it started to change location in 2015. Previously the design was mainly held in New York and Philadelphia.

Last week’s NFL design was held in Green Bay, while the showpiece 2026 is being performed in Pittsburgh.

Washington was selected as a design -guests, only a few days after Bowser announced a plan to bring the team back to the city with a new arena on the site of the old RFK stadium, where the team played until 1996.

RFK Stadium is currently on the site on the banks of the River Anacostia in the eastern part of the city. The building has been busy with a long -term demolition that has been delayed several times.

The building was closed in September 2019, but the structural demolition only started this year.

The announcement by Harris and Bowser came up with ripening of what the new stadium could look like – including a clear facade on the west that offers a view of East Capitol Street Ne to the US Capitol Building and the Washington Monument.

The planned construction will see a roof added on the building, making it a possible location for a future super bowl.

Although not connected to an actual game, the NFL design has become an important annual event and last month attracted 600,000 fans to Green Bay, the smallest market in the NFL.

And it is even more popular on television, where the dramatic fall of the former Quarterback Shedeur Sanders from a projected first round pick to the 144th selection for three days fascinated through the 144th selection. According to a competition declaration, an average of 7.3 million viewers watched the second and third round on Friday evening, which meant an increase of 40 percent compared to 2024.

Trump, himself, could not resist the spotlight of the design and NFL owners shot online for passing the NFL legend and Colorado Coach Deion Sanders on.

“What’s wrong with NFL owners, are they stupid?” Trump wrote about Truth Social. ‘Deion Sanders was a great university football player and was even bigger in the NFL. He is also a very good coach, streetwise and smart!

‘That is why Sheeur, his quarterback son, has phenomenal genes and is ready for greatness. He should be ‘picked’ immediately by a team that wants to win. Good luck Sheteur, and say hello to your great father! ‘

Trump’s message came after the first day of the design. Sanders would eventually wait until the third day to be chosen by the Cleveland Browns, as a result of which the President’s press secretary would take the honor to the credit for his access to the NFL.

“The only thing I will say is that the president made a statement, and a few rounds later he was drafted, so I think the facts speak for themselves,” a grinning press secretary of the White House told Karoline Leavitt to reporters last month.

Trump has a complicated history with the NFL.

He was critical of Goodell and the NFL during his first term when players protested for racist police bridility by kneeling during the national anthem.

Before the Chiefs of Kansas City choose to win the Super Bowl from February, the 78-year-old made various doomed attempts to become an NFL teeth owner.

In 1983, Trump showed an interest in buying the Baltimore Colts, which was ultimately not sold but were moved to Indianapolis.

A year later, Trump had a reported opportunity to buy the Dallas Cowboys for just $ 50 million, but dropped, so Jerry Jones the franchise could later acquire the franchise in the decade. Now the cowboys rank as the most valuable team in sport with a rating of $ 9 billion from Forbes.

And Trump not only used money to get an NFL team. He also tried to use leverage, according to the book by Jeff Pearlman 2018, ‘Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the Usfl.

The USFL was launched in 1983 and was a Spring Football League with a surprising range of talent, including future Trump -political ally Herschel Walker. A year after the competition, Trump would buy the Walker team, the generals of New Jersey, which he owned until the competition in 1986 went bankrupt.

The short history of the USFL is determined by various clear errors, such as the decision to add six new franchises after a promising inaugural season in 1983. But perhaps the larger misstep chose to fall to fall in 1985 and challenge the NFL – a decision that was heavily influenced by Trump.

“In the run -up to buying the team, he all about Spring Football and how great the competition was, and” I love what the USFL does and bla bla bla, “Pearlman told DailyMail.com in 2018.” He is approved as the owner, he buys the team, and immediately: ‘We have to move to fall; We have to compete against the NFL. ‘

“His big line was:” If God wanted football in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. ” ‘

According to Pearlman interviews, Trump’s first plan was to let the USFL fold fold and the NFL absorbs the generals as an expansive ranchise.

However, during a meeting with the then NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle in the Pierre Hotel in New York City in 1984, that plan was thwarted.

“He actually said to Roselle,” Pearlman explained, “I don’t really give *** about the USFL. I want an NFL team. What should I do to get to the NFL? ” ‘

“It was actually an offer to throw the USFL under the bus.”

Trump did not get the answer he was looking for.

“Roselle said to him:” As long as I am the commissioner, you will never have a team, “Pearlman continued. “He didn’t trust him. He thought he was a bastard. He did not say: “I think you’re a bastard,” but Roselle made his feelings against Trump well known. [Rozelle] She also announced during the process when he testified. ‘