It started with a Cathal Kelly column: “Arlington isn’t Texas, because Arlington isn’t really any place. It’s the strip-mall wormhole you pass through on the way to Fort Worth.”
As you can expect, that wasn’t met to kindly from the people of Arlington. The Dallas Morning News quickly linked to Kelly’s column asking their readers what they thought of a columnist from “Canada’s No. 1 weekday and weekend newspaper” trashing their city.
Readers commented in droves. Outrage, agreement, apathy. One constant theme was the use of stereotypes. Hockey, poutine and questions of how someone from such a polite nation could be so rude.
Not soon after, Jacquielynn Floyd of the Dallas Morning News came to the defence of Arlington while stopping along the way to needle both Kelly and the city of Toronto: “Toronto has lots of hideous condo towers, terrible traffic and extortionate parking prices — the absence of which all seem to make you bad-tempered and homesick.”
For two cities that, until this week, had little to no rivalry to speak of, the Toronto vs. Arlington (Or Canada vs. Texas) feud is off and running. #ItsOnArlington.
The better baseball team will be decided on the field over the next three to five games. But when it comes to Arlington, Texas vs. Toronto, Ontario, Canada which city comes out on top?
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