The receipts won’t be tabulated for at least one more month, but despite yielding to FIFA’s demand to rename the stadium to “Dallas,” the city of Arlington should win this World Cup.
Three more World Cup matches are scheduled for Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which means two more weeks of what thus far is a bullet train of positivity, parties, good PR and sales taxes in the city that will end up hosting more games than any other in this tournament.
Debating what a city must surrender to host FIFA’s World Cup is always a contentious argument; Chicago is America’s third-largest city, and it passed on hosting any World Cup matches because it didn’t agree to FIFA’s magnificent mile-long list of borderline offensive demands…