Texas Rangers World Series Parade

[brewcrew1000]

It seems kind of sad that the Rangers parade will be rolling along in Arlington Texas. A lifeless suburban area everyone will have to drive to. This has got to be the first time a sports parade will be in a suburb isn't it? This is equivalent to the NY Giants having a parade in NJ cause they play in NJ or Pats having a parade by Gillette not in Boston 30 miles up the road.
You got to wonder what other teams could have a suburban type of parade? Could see Arizona Cardinals having its parade in Glendale. LA Angels having it in Anaheim makes sense.

[ericwyner]

where will the Cowboys Super Bowl parade be?

[brewcrew1000]

where will the Cowboys Super Bowl parade be?

It would have to be in Dallas. Arlington doesn't even have public transportation.

[Cratedigger]

Arlington has ponyed up to pay for a stadium twice - they deserve it

[kcjak]

Arlington and Tarrant county funded a lot of the stadium(s) - if parades are held there, they deserve it. Probably gonna be a clusterfuck if they haven't finished construction on the nearby interchange/exit ramps, though.

How is the area handling transportation to AT&T for the World Cup given the nearest train station is a 30 minute or so walk?

[AllThingsKC]

Previous Cowboys/Mavericks/Stars parades were in Dallas. I guess because they're the *Dallas* teams verses the *Texas* team. Maybe Ft. Worth would have a fit if the Texas Rangers chose Dallas? I assume Dallas and Ft. Worth are as petty as Kansas and Missouri.

After some Google searches, the closest parade I could find that wasn't in a urban area was 2011 Green Bay Packers. They had a "celebration event" at the stadium, but no parade.

[TheUrbanRoo]

Arlington has ponyed up to pay for a stadium twice - they deserve it

That doesn’t make it any less lame

[Cratedigger]

Arlington and Tarrant county funded a lot of the stadium(s) - if parades are held there, they deserve it. Probably gonna be a clusterfuck if they haven't finished construction on the nearby interchange/exit ramps, though.

How is the area handling transportation to AT&T for the World Cup given the nearest train station is a 30 minute or so walk?

They plan to have a shuttle bus service regularly going back and forth between Jerryworld and the CentrePort station during the world cup. They've done this for a number of large events before (Wrestlemania last year for instance) and are planning to do it again for the MLB All-star game next year.

Also makes it easy to get from downtown Ft Worth on the TRE

[ericwyner]

where would an Angel's parade be? Disneyland?

[Cratedigger]

where would an Angel's parade be? Disneyland?

I mean, yeah. When they won in 02, Disneyland was one of the locations.

Actually was at that parade. Incredible time. I had way too much with those Thundersticks

[AllThingsKC]

Texas Rangers parade:


Kansas City Royals parade:


I have seen several people complain about the transportation issues for the Rangers parade and how "boring it was."

I really should have been in downtown Dallas, IMO.

[DColeKC]

Arlington has ponyed up to pay for a stadium twice - they deserve it

That doesn’t make it any less lame

It was awesome. No major issues.

[ericwyner]

Arlington has ponyed up to pay for a stadium twice - they deserve it

That doesn’t make it any less lame

It was awesome. No major issues.

did they have cell service?

[Cratedigger]

That doesn’t make it any less lame

It was awesome. No major issues.

did they have cell service?

My buddies said it was fine. Cell service was nonexistent tho

[DColeKC]

That doesn’t make it any less lame

It was awesome. No major issues.

did they have cell service?

I did but was also bouncing off some wifi since we had a reservation at Texas Live. We just happened to be in town for business and some friends are big Rangers fans. I still favor our cities parade here but this was different and the area is just too perfect to not have the rally part there.