July 25, 2002
Last Year Redskins Owner Dan
Last Year Redskins Owner Dan Snyder. . . Brought the team's training camp back to their practice facility in Ashburn, Va., where they promptly became the only team in the NFL to charge fans to attend practice sessions. Fans were also charged for parking, and the ones who did come noted that the food that was available was overpriced.
Fast-forward to this year, as the team has shifted training camp back to its traditional site at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. And while it's clear that Snyder had nothing to do with the following story, it sort of dovetails nicely with the new style he has brought to town:
Five children were kicked out of the Washington Redskins practice area for selling drinks and cookies to fans going to see the team practice.
Nine-year-old Henry Kohler; his brother, Sam, 11; sister, Hannah, 7; and two friends were told on Wednesday to leave the grounds of Biddle Field at Dickinson College, where the team was holding training camp.
"I don't know what the big deal was,'' Henry said. "We were just sitting there. We weren't bothering anybody.''
During the first two days of training camp, the children said they made $112 from their stand at the public entrance to Biddle Field. But then security guards told them to leave after vendors inside the stadium complained.
Their 16-ounce bottles of water and cans of soda were going for $1, half the price that vendors were charging inside. Their friends, Robert Gilroy, 10, and Eric Cantor, 11, were charging $1 for three homemade chocolate chip cookies.
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