Go Cowboys!

Go Cowboys!

Today was the day that we were going to check out America’s football team, the Dallas Cowboys! We had to make our way west of Dallas to Arlington.

The stadium is impressive, it is located right next to the rangers stadium. We made our way round to get tickets to the tour, we were lucky that today the tickets were $10 discounted because we wouldn’t be allowed to walk onto the field, which was fine because we didn’t even think we would be able to do that anyways, so it was only $17. We waited around with the collective of people going on the tour and there was this immensely irritating (and we suspect he was drunk) guy who thought he was a clown and would constantly inturupt the tour guide with some kind of crappy joke.

The stadium is brand new, the tour guide told us that it has the largest arch in the world and the largest retractable roof in the world, we had to correct her that actually Wembley has the record for both of those records. But it did have the worlds largest TV screen, 115 feet! It was ridiculous! This 115f screen is also HD and has 3D capabilities! The Jonas Brothers did a show at the stadium and they managed to hook up a Xbox and played Halo on it! I hate the Jonas Brothers, although to be honest I would have played Pro evo.

The stadium tour was brilliant value for money, it was a 3 hour tour, we took in the whole place, unfortunately most of the hall of fame sections and parts that showed famous trophies and footballs and jerseys went right over our heads.

One part that we could appreciate was the cheerleaders section! Incredible! Check out some of the pictures, but an interesting fact, the cheerleaders only get paid $50 to perform on game day! At that rate I could afford my own team of cheerleaders!

We were loved the tour, still debating wether or not to become a fan. But we made our way over towards the wallmart across the road from the stadium, we still hadn’t eaten today so we went to the hot deli section of Walmart and got ourselves some pizza and friend chicken with potato salad and coleslaw, it was all really nice except the chicken which is some of the worst fried chicken I’ve ever had.

It was around 5pm by now and we had done everything we could think to do in Arlington so we found a mall and wondered around until our showing of The Expendables, it had an ice rink and there were people practicing figure skating so we got some frozen yogurt and burnt up some time, our film started at 8pm. We also watched some ice hockey training which was very entertaining, we picked sides for there practice matches, it was as good as the real thing! They were very good, I support the Guildford Flames and have been to many matches, these were kids playing and they were better than the Guildford Flames.

The Expendables film was top quality! Exactly our type of film, it doesn’t pretend to be anything more than it is, purely action, Stallone is brilliant, great cast! But this isn’t a film review so I’ll stop. We made our way back again for the night to get ready for Oklahoma the day after.