The following rant was inspired by the season finale of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. I know it aired last week but I am just now getting around to watching it. Here's my problem.
They talk about this serial killer being in Dallas, Texas and then the next thing we know, they're talking about one of the victims being shot just outside Cowboys Stadium. Here's the thing. COWBOYS STADIUM IS NOT IN DALLAS! It's in ARLINGTON!
The Superbowl was said to be in Dallas, Texas. NOPE! IT WAS IN ARLINGTON!
Comedians come to Arlington Improv all the time and talk about how great it is to be in Dallas. WRONG AGAIN! YOU'RE IN ARLINGTON!
I wouldn't be so upset about this except that we're not even in Dallas County! We're in Tarrant County! We're closer to Ft Worth than we are to Dallas.
With over 360,000 people, why is it so hard to acknowledge that Arlington, Texas actually exists. I mean, if the Texas Rangers can call the Ballpark the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, how hard would it be for it to be Cowboys Stadium in Arlington? Oh wait, IT IS! ARLINGTON IS IN THE NAME OF THE STADIUM!
Yes, I know that Dallas, Texas is a city that everybody knows about. You say Dallas and everybody automatically knows where that is. But if they can track down serial killers in tiny little podunk towns that nobody's ever heard of and list that town name, why can't they acknowledge a city that at one time held the busiest intersection in the country? It probably still is? Why can't they say "Arlington, Texas" when they're talking about things that happened here?
We are the 7th largest city in the entire state of Texas and the 50th largest city in the country. With a population of 365,438 people and 99.7 square miles of land. We house Six Flags Over Texas which was the very first Six Flags park ever. We have the Texas Rangers and now the Dallas Cowboys. Though Arlington was officially founded in 1878 people have been living here since 1841. That's older than the state of Texas itself.
With 50 Elementary Schools, 12 Jr High Schools and 6 High Schools, would it really be all that hard to say something was in Arlington rather than in Dallas? I mean, really?
Arlington deserves better than what it's getting is all I'm saying.
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