A post on Gregg Easterbrook’s ESPN blog has gotten our staff list all abuzz today with this anti-Tysons Corner rant, so we thought you might want to join the debate. D.C.-based Easterbrook lays down some serious Tysons hate when regarding the choice of Arizona Cardinals’ coaches to house their players in a hotel next to the mega-mall for the week between their games against Washington and New York.

But rather than find some pleasant countryside location or college campus where the team could train and concentrate, the Cardinals stayed in this hotel in Tyson’s Corner, Va. In case you haven’t had the misfortune of visiting Tyson’s Corner, it is the mega-mall for the nation’s capital — a hellish conjunction of stores, parking lots, sprawl, gridlocked roads, beltway cloverleafs and cars, cars, cars. Here’s what it looks like where the Cards stayed. Between the concrete, fumes, gridlock and screaming commerce, Tyson’s Corner may be the single most unpleasant place on planet Earth. You couldn’t pay me to stay in a hotel in Tyson’s Corner! Small wonder the Cards stunk up the joint in Jersey on Sunday, committing seven turnovers in a 56-35 loss to the throwback-clad Jets led by Hackensack Brett. If you’d stayed in a shopping-mall hotel for a week, you’d play terribly too! But perhaps Arizona coaches got some good deals on Dockers.

A visit to Tysons can often be unpleasant, but the most unpleasant place on the planet? What Easterbrook forgets is that the Cardinals typically reside in Phoenix, which is sort of like Tysons to the 10th power, except located in the center of the sun. Share your feelings about Tysons Corner in the comments.

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