Yes, please. Richmond's aching for a pro team to rally behind.

There would be a lot of places the NFL would put a team before coming to southeastern Virginia. This area is solidly Redskins country, and Dan Snyder would certainly convince his owner buddies not to infringe on his territory. Putting a team in Baltimore about a decade ago was a different situation since Baltimore was traditionally an NFL city, and the Baltimore fanbase didn't support the Redskins anyways. While stolypin's argument that there is a large population in this area is correct, it is not exactly a wealthy population. Richmond has some wealth, but most of the tidewater area is working class. This area would support a pro team at a reasonable price, but the NFL would rather choose a city that would overpay to watch 10 NFL games a year.

I don't think that these three locations would be a big enough market especially with Redskins nearby.

Virginia is the largest state in the US without a top-level professional franchise in any sport. A stadium in the resort area of Williamsburg would be less than an hour's drive away from almost 3 million people in two of the largest untapped TV markets in the country: Hampton Roads (aka Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News) and Richmond. According to the 2000 census, Hampton Roads is the largest metropolitan area in the US with no pro teams at the highest levels, larger than Charlotte, Nashville, New Orleans, Jacksonville, and Las Vegas. Richmond is larger than Tulsa, Birmingham, or Louisville on this list. Combined together (as a Williamsburg based team would do), they are larger than St Louis, Denver, Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Indianapolis. And with a huge navy population, there is an opportunity to develop a nationwide fanbase.