This may come from out of left field, so excuse me if this sounds like I should be fitted for a tin foil hat or am seeing the little black helicopters. I work here in DC (but live on the Baltimore side of the DMZ) and use the Metro to get to work. WMATA (those good folks who run the Metro) does some sort of track work every weekend and will be doing so for a few years under a capital improvement program. Every week, they close off a certain portion of the Metro system for the entire weekend to work. To make allowances for these closings, they usually have bus service workarounds or single track which causes crazy long waits and delays.

WMATA usually announces the given weekend's closings in the middle of each week. This week, they announced closings on the Green Line (the upper portion of the L'Enfant Plaza station that connects to the Blue Line, which as you guessed it, takes you to FedEx) and the Red Line from Silver Spring to Fort Totten. As coincidence may have it, these are the Northeastern-most lines, i.e,, the lines that would be accessed by those who would be coming from Baltimore if they wanted to take the Metro as opposed to dealing with the traffic nightmare near the stadium. The lines coming from Montgomery County, Virginia and Prince George's County? No closures. No delays.

Makes me wonder if WMATA wanted to try to give the Skins a little home cookin'. OK, irrational rant over, taking off the tin foil hat now!