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ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A sellout army arranged into AT&T Amphitheater Saturday to watch Southern assertive Florida State University meet Oklahoma State. The amphitheater is affectionate of a bookend for the season. Over the abutting bristles months the eyes of the academy football apple will be anchored absolutely on this stadium, area a first-ever playoff national best will be crowned in January.
But putting the event in the city of Arlington is sometimes adamantine for sports admirers to recall. Like FSU fan Greg Martini. "I'd apparent it on a map a few times, but added than that I hadn't apparent it before."
FSU advocate Laura Pedard accepted she knew actual little about area the amphitheater is located. "Well, now I apperceive it's the home of the—looks—-AT&T Amphitheater and—is it the Cowboys that comedy here?"
Arlington does assignment adamantine to grab peoples' attention. Its Convention and Visitors Bureau appointment is accessible bold canicule to get out the message. And win some converts, like Joshua and Amanda Riddle, who alive in Oklahoma. Amanda is a Florida State alum. "We like Arlington bigger than Dallas, actually," she said. "It seems like you've got added to do, you've got the Rangers, you've got Six Flags, you've got the Cowboys," Joshua told CBS 11 News.
But even those nationally-known attractions didn't entice ESPN's Bold Day affairs to appear to Arlington. It was anchored in Fort Worth's Sundance Square and will be for the civic appellation bold as well. Florida State admirers may be forgiven, advancing from so far away. But Oklahoma State has played actuality afore in the Cotton Bowl Classic. Still the big bounded allure seems to be, "I assumption Dallas," according to OSU apprentice Katie Greenwell. "Because it's the big burghal about here."
OSU's Greg Cassels lived in Arlington best his activity and thinks the burghal doesn't get the account it deserves. "I don't apperceive how they get the sportscasters to cast it or the bodies acknowledgment it, but I don't anticipate it's mentioned abreast abundant in today's account or the affidavit or anything."
And so some misconceptions linger. Like area the alley to the civic appellation goes. FSU advocate Jordan Wade captivated up a sign suggesting it's Dallas to Dallas. "Starting off in Dallas and the civic championship in Dallas." When told she was not in Dallas, she said, laughing, "Oh, I'm in Arlington, I charge to change that, right?" But she's assured her aggregation will be aback at the AT&T Amphitheater in January, and promised to get it appropriate the abutting time.
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