I have no idea who would be silly enough to wave the red flag of that D Magazine in front of the opposition! I assume the Bulls stayed in Dallas, which is a good half hour away and I really doubt we had anything to do with it. It doesn't sound right (but that mag is ubiquitous in the Metroplex).
Southlake is closer to Fort Worth than Dallas, and we were all very offended to be referred to as a suburb of Dallas last night. :)
We only have one hotel in our city which just opened this month. Our population is about 20K.
Funny thing about intimidation; we had heard that some of the players were 20 years old, enormous, and that they intended to take Riley Dodge out for the season. (as it is, all he did was get a nasty bloody nose- he seems to lose bodily fluids in game. Last year during the championship game, he threw up on national television.) You couldn't have asked for better sportsmanship from either team during the game.
YOu know, that D Mag article antagonized a lot of people here. The story goes that the kids mostly smiled and joked around during the photo shoot, but that the photographer asked them to do one pose looking mean or superior or something. And that was the shot that got used. Our Sprouts store even refused to carry the magazine. No one was happy about the label of the story: something about "reasons to hate Southlake- they're prettier, better, smarter than you and they prove it every Friday night".
In the area of football, it can be just as hard- maybe harder!- to be perceived as rich, white, spoiled brats as poor kids from the tough 'hood. |
