The Renegades started out in 1983 as the Washington Federals and played in Washington, D.C.'s Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. The team did not win many games in its two years in Washington. The team relocated in 1985 to Orlando, Florida, after the USFL announced plans to switch to a fall schedule for the 1986 season. The team and league never saw 1986.
The Federals lost on last-second field goals of 50 and 52 yards, a 98-yard TD pass, a missed chip-shot field goal, and a quarterback sneak that came up one foot short.
Following the disastrous 1984 campaign, the Federals were supposed to be bought by Sherwood Weiser and moved to Miami, but when the league's move to the fall was announced, Weiser pulled out having no desire to compete with the Dolphins.
Washington jumped out to a 16-7 advantage at halftime but saw the last of it's lead slip away on a 43-yard field goal by Novo Bojovic that tied it at 16-16 on the last play of regulation.
It also was the home of the Washington Redskins, a team in the National Football League, from 1961 until 1996, when they moved to FedExField in suburban Maryland.
RFK Stadium has undergone a $13 million dollar renovation, and is planned to be used for a total of three years for the new baseball team, while a $611 million dollar state-of-the-art stadium is built on the north bank of the Anacostia River at South Capitol Street.
Pollin owned the Baltimore Bullets and moved them to Washington, where they became the "Capital Bullets," "Washington Bullets" and now the "Washington Wizards." He also founded the NHL's Washington Capitals and built two area arenas: The Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland and the MCI Center (now the Verizon Center) in downtown Washington.
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