Common sense took a bit of a beating today, courtesy of the Washington Redskins and D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams. As we learned from NBC 4 this morning, city officials and confidants of team owner Dan Snyder have started exploring the prospect of building the team a new stadium on the RFK site. Council-member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and lame-duck Williams have tacitly endorsed the idea, with Williams noting:

I’ve talked to him [Snyder] a couple times over the years about that and, I mean, you know, I think it would be a great thing for the city, if we can do it, obviously, with the right financing, without too much burden on the city.

Merits or liabilities of a new football stadium notwithstanding, we can only stand in absolute awe of Tony and Jack’s apparent blindness to current realities. Both men seem to already have forgotten the long, divisive battle that the new stadium for the Nats provoked, let alone its spiralling costs and, until yesterday, lack of a workable parking resolution. The South Capitol Street stadium is hardly built and already the two are setting their sights on another stadium, apparently ignoring whether or not the city could actually afford it or if the electorate would stand for it.

Given their regional popularity, we’d love to see the Redskins locate somewhere closer than Landover. But it’s simply too early, politically, to bring it up. Unless Dan Snyder wants to pay for it, of course.