Dallas hotel honors Astros, irks some Rangers fans
Texas Rangers fans were pretty unhappy with the Omni Hotel in downtown Dallas after the building sported a neon billboard Wednesday night, congratulating the rival Houston Astros for winning the World Series.
The city of Dallas tweeted an image of the hotel with the hashtag, #TexasStrong.
Messages left by Paste BN Sports to the hotel on Friday morning were not immediately returned.
On top of supporting Dallas-based teams, the Omni Hotel has been known to display logos of teams passing through the area on occasion, according to The Dallas Morning News. But the unfriendly rivalry between the Astros and Rangers (who are based in the Dallas area) surely makes for a different dynamic for Dallas sports fans.
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Several months ago, Astros pitcher Lance McCullers tweeted that the Rangers should have been "absolutely ashamed" for not trading series with the Astros in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
The hotel's congratulatory gesture toward Houston received plenty of criticism on Twitter.
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