is 20 miles away from Dallas. Glendale is only nine away from Glendale. Just because it is called a “city” doesn’t make it an urban area. Kokomo is not an urban city because it is called a city. The city is slightly larger than Wichita, Kansas, so it isn’t large by any means. 10% of the city is under the poverty line, and it has an average median income. I’d take Indy over Arlington any day.

Yeah, it will be awesome here in Arlington(where I live, BTW, within eye-shot of the “Boss Hog Bowl”). When you are getting ready for the Super Bowl you’ll stay in your Hotel Room, which if it is in Arlington, you’ll have to wear your rental car everywhere because Arlington is the largest city in the world without comprehensive public transport of any kind. If it is elsewhere, prepare to navigate the 28 different interstates, highways, tollways, turnpikes, state roads, and “Farm-to-Market” roads that crisscross the Metroplex, oh and at least a 30 minute drive with no traffic(You’ll also have to drive to EVERYTHING, unless you get a hotel in downtown Fort Worth which is pretty nice). And if you want to see the attractions that DFW has to offer, bring your gas money, because to get from say Texas Motor Speedway(a Texas-sized rip-off) to the Galleria will take about 45 minutes to an hour. And then an hour or so to get to Arlington. Where you will park, probably about 5 miles away from the stadium since everything around the stadium is Ranger’s Ballpark parking lots and low-slung strip malls and outlot fast food joints(not to mention the shiny new all-brick Wal Mart directly across the street). So you might want to bring a ruck sack and stay away from Division St., Abrams, and Washington, since you might get robbed. Oh, and make sure to leave your pre-game festivities at least 4 hours early to enjoy this wonderful day(oh, and it might be just as cold as it is in Indiana on the same date, like it was this past year and the year before).

SOOOOOO. Arlington is a rocking place to have a Super Bowl, I mean you have the $1+ Billion “Jerry Jones’ Folly” which is filled with nice things and is shiny. But, as for me, and most people that actually like sports and having fun before the biggest football game of the year, I’ll take Indy and it’s nice, convenient downtown that is packed with bars, restaurants, hotels, and retail. Not to mention skywalks and underground tunnels to shield you from the elements if 30-40 degree weather is too much for your baby hands to deal with.

Arlington Texas is a sh!t-hole, the area would have been nice to have a Super Bowl if the stadium was built in downtown Ft. Worth or even Dallas, but it will stink up the place in Arlington. I hope to god I’m in Indy and not here by 2011. And I will stand over bodies to be in Indy come February 2012.

I just blew Terry’s argument away, but that is just silly. I have stated before that the Cowboys stadium is gorgeous, and does indeed pimp-slap Lucas Oil(I Have lived near both, and see the former every day). The problem is, they might as well put it in a cornfield. Lucas Oil is awesome because it is all-Indiana and is in the most logical place to put a major stadium, in the center city. Let’s not resort to tatty little remarks about influences of architects of stadiums. That makes every who is on your side look bad.

I’ve never emailed a sports writer ever, but i just sent him an email just a bit ago telling him how great it would be for the city. If you don’t like cold weather go watch it somewhere warm and quit bitching about it, we don’t want you here in the first place if you can’t handle a little cold weather. They hold the final four here in March, which can be as cold as February and nobody complains about that! If he emails me back (which I don’t expect) I’ll post it on here.