We all know that the Cowboys are having horrible season. But it’s really a bad turn of events when the NY Times runs an article about all of the problems that Dallas is having, not the least of which is that San Antonio has overtaken it to become Texas’ second largest city behind Houston:

The losing Cowboys are fixing to defect again, the police chief and city manager were shown the door, a 350-pound gorilla made his own grand exit, and the hometown daily, former employer of the ex-reporter now ensconced in City Hall, is pinning Pulitzer Prize hopes on a pitiless exposÈ of everything gone wrong.
It has been that kind of year for Big D, Texas’s second biggest – oops, third biggest – city; San Antonio gained a 6,000-person edge to slip in with just over 1.2 million, behind Dallas’s longtime archrival, Houston.

The city was humbled in other ways as well, watching sourly as conventioneers thronged Houston’s budding entertainment district while Dallas struggled to begin a master plan study and select a flagship hotel for its own convention hopes, which it did at its final City Council meeting of the year on Wednesday, giving a provisional go-ahead to a developer for a 1,000-room Marriott. (In fairness, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau may have been distracted, some of its executives having been found earlier wooing clients at topless bars.)
Based largely on a wave of property crimes, Dallas once again leads the F.B.I.’s list of high-crime big cities this year. Efforts to cope with a growing homeless population by making it illegal to take a shopping cart off the property of the store it belongs to did not solve the problem, but instead produced bizarre fleets of cannibalized baby strollers and shopping carts. The dramatically slanted City Hall that attracted architectural plaudits when it was completed in 1978 has become a magnet for derelicts.
Dallas officials also spent part of the year trying to figure out how a handful of police narcotics informants were able to plant some 330 kilograms of gypsum and other harmless substances on 30 innocents, mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants, to frame them on drug charges in 2001.

Not to mention that the 6-8 Texans are on course to finish with a better record this season than that 5-9 Cowboys.