Last fall when I was in Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio on a travel writing jaunt, I expected to hear songs like this at least a dozen times from the various honky tonks and barbecues I visited. But most of the music I heard playing in the background wasn't about Texas pride and wasn't even country. Mostly vintage rock and roll and more than once I caught tunes by classic Canadian rockers Bachman-Turner Overdrive and, of course, Rush - one of the most popular bands in the state.
Go figure.
I was also a little ticked they took a gaggle of Canadian travel writers to the massive Cowboys Stadium yet didn't mention the NHL or Dallas Stars. When I asked where the arena was, it was kind of a wave of the hand and a "over there near the airport" dismissal. When I was in Toronto with an international group of writers from Mexico, China, Hong Kong and Dubai, Toronto Tourism to ok us to a Maple Leafs-Edmonton Oilers game and encouraged a self-guided tour of the Hockey Hall of Fame near the Air Canada Centre.
To be fair, there was a hockey component to the Cowboys Stadium tour. The guide said the facility is making a pitch for a future NHL all-star game with an eye to setting an attendance record. Sure. It's the one hockey game no one cares about, even Canadians, and Dallas can't even fill its regular hockey rink, wherever it is, for Stars games despite being a recent Stanley Cup winner.
I was also a little ticked they took a gaggle of Canadian travel writers to the massive Cowboys Stadium yet didn't mention the NHL or Dallas Stars. When I asked where the arena was, it was kind of a wave of the hand and a "over there near the airport" dismissal. When I was in Toronto with an international group of writers from Mexico, China, Hong Kong and Dubai, Toronto Tourism to ok us to a Maple Leafs-Edmonton Oilers game and encouraged a self-guided tour of the Hockey Hall of Fame near the Air Canada Centre.
To be fair, there was a hockey component to the Cowboys Stadium tour. The guide said the facility is making a pitch for a future NHL all-star game with an eye to setting an attendance record. Sure. It's the one hockey game no one cares about, even Canadians, and Dallas can't even fill its regular hockey rink, wherever it is, for Stars games despite being a recent Stanley Cup winner.
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