THE SIDELINES : Redskin Move Unpopular Rumor

A monthly report on commercial real estate indicates that Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke is considering Prince William County in Virginia as the site of a new stadium for his football team, but the county’s chairman of the board would prefer that Cooke look elsewhere.

“The newest rumors are that D.C. may be out of the running in favor of a site off of I-66 beyond the Beltway,” wrote the public relations firm of Arthur J. Schultz and Co. in a report for Smithy Braedon, a commercial real estate company.

However, Ed King, chairman of the board of Prince William County supervisors, said a new stadium would be a losing proposition for the county, and he suggested that Cooke was merely playing one jurisdiction against another.

“I personally don’t want it in Prince William,” King told the Washington Post. “ . . . I know Mr. Cooke has said he would build it, but he hasn’t put it in writing and a new stadium would cost $75 million to $100 million, at least.”