There are five major league professional sports teams in Washington, D.C.: the Redskins of the National Football League, the Wizards (formerly the Bullets), of the National Basketball Association, the Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association, the Capitals of the National Hockey League, and DC United of Major League Soccer. Hockey and basketball are played in downtown Washington at the MCI Arena, which was opened for the 1997–98 season. The Redskins began the 1997 season in the new Jack Kent Cooke Stadium in Landover, Maryland. The Redskins have reached football's Super Bowl five times, winning in 1983, 1988, and 1992. The Bullets won the NBA championship in 1978.
In collegiate sports the Georgetown Hoyas were a dominant force in basketball during the 1980s, reaching the NCAA championship game in 1982, 1984, and 1985, and winning the title in 1984.