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Originally Posted by McheleM  Lol, shows what I know. We're OU fans!
I still don't want to grace Jerry with my presence. I fault him for the higher taxes, the crappy roads, the rolling blackouts and the freezing weather last year! Oh and for my going into labor early. He's easy to blame lol. |
LOL! I've thought the Cowboys were going to send me into early labor many times and I wasn't even pregnant!!!
But, all joking aside, blame Irving and then Arlington voters for those higher taxes as they chose to vote to increase the sales tax to help fund the stadia! And the business men and women, politicians and realtors, not to mention sports' fans of D/FW would strongly disagree that the Dallas Cowboys have had any net negative effect on this area. The Dallas Cowboys are one of the world's top 4 valued sports franchises, ranked only after Manchester United and Real Madrid, franchises of a world sport; and for so young a team and relatively small a sport(football excels only in the USA), that is truly remarkable! Jones has built a sports empire that began in a southwestern city - not New York or any of the truly venerable "sports towns" of this country or the world and from a team that had truly humble beginnings in the 1960's. Any state in the union or country in the world would clamor to have the franchise! And probably build the team a bigger stadium than they have here. It's a shame the city fathers of Dallas, Arlington or Fort Worth did not have more winter road equipment and chemicals to help clear the roads and deal with visitors to the area during the Superbowl but they just didn't step up. The NFL also didn't help with the ticket snafu and that seating situation for the game. Still, I'm so proud D/FW area and Texas have the Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Ltd. I wonder of Jones wanted to move the team, how many cities would pay just to get in line to try to have him move his club to their state?