The Redskins locker room at FedExField functions in a variety of ways during the football season. Mostly, it is a place to change clothes, a place of meditation, of focus, of frustration and exhilaration, and it can all be quite smelly.
So it was quite a surprise for the 200 local elementary school students visiting the stadium Monday, and quite frankly for the players, too, to see the same locker room serve in another, transformative way – as Santa’s workshop.
“Usually when I come in here it’s a different switch that gets put on in my head,” safety Kyshoen Jarrett said.