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I wrote the position paper on the North Texas Super Bowl. I have quite alot to say about it. I looked and looked online and for newspapers to have some backup information for my essays about the view of the Super Bowl from the North Texan perspective, and I couldn't find anything! It's almost like the North Texans, were either at the game, or sleeping, or went out of town, it's quite disturbing. It makes me angry because you have us spend all this money, put up with traffic, the extra amount of people, not to mention the horrible ice storm, and then...nothing. It's highly disrespectful in my opinion. During the ice storm, the only freeways that were sanded were the ones that led either to Dallas, or of course, Arlington. It was sick, because even I couldn't get into work, that whole week, because the streets were layered in ice, and the freeways getting out of Denton to Fort Worth, were also iced. It was highly frustrating. Why do you think the press didn't mention ANYTHING about the citizens for the after effect? Maybe because it was a disaster? Maybe because it shouldn't have been here in the first place? North Texas isn't meant to have a super bowl, especially not Arlington! Why in Arlington anyway? What is so special about Arlington? Why not Fort Worth? Oh, wait, here's a thought, how about since it's the Dallas cowboys, why not, dare i say it, in Dallas!? It's humorous really, this whole thing. I hope the citizens that voted yes, and Jerry Jones all learned a valuable lesson that weekend. I also hope that the 'foreigners' learned that just because it's Texas, doesn't mean it never snows, or gets cold for that matter. I've never really been into football until I was dating my husband. I was in the band for seven years, marching band for four, went to every single football game for my High school, due to obligation of course, and never got into football. My husband is a HUGE football fan, it drives me crazy just thinking about it. Ugh. Anyways, Football is a good sport, i think it may be too publicized by now, but what isn't nowadays? After a while, i lessened up on my aggression towards football, but too much of anything can drive anyone crazy, especially since they don't like it all that much to begin with! I had good things to say about the Super Bowl as well. It brought money to our economy. Hotels sky rocketed, restaurants booked, college being visited just because they're in town, which may turn out to be a different case in the future. A lot of good things happened. It brought families closer together, brought out the old rivalry, and dusted off good old competition. That's always a good thing every now and then. Celebrities came from all over, including President Obama, Adam Sandler, etc. There were good things, it just really didn't out number the bad, like it always should. I hope Jerry Jones learned a lesson here, first of all, we didn't need a new stadium, the old one was fine, and if NFL didn't want a Super Bowl there, then so what! If you got so much money, hire the best coach in the world, and go to the Super Bowl yourself! Or another idea is, just buy a ticket.
