The Arizona Cardinals are a perennial sexy sleeper pick for NFL fans of wagering on the over/under of total games won, while at the same time remaining a bastion of mediocrity with which the city of Cleveland can follow. (Just kidding, Cleveland, you’re swell.) Given all that preseason hype, combined with that needy desperation and Ken Wisenhunt’s actual ability to turn the team around, it seems odd that they aren’t selling all of their season tickets.

But they’re not. And that leaves a giant void in sales that is being crept on by Dallas Cowboys fans, who are trying to procure entry for the October 12th regular season ‘Boys-’Saw matchup. But, as YAHOO! SPORTS reports, the Cardinals are instituting measures for controlling the population of Texans inside the Pink Taco.

In the past two seasons, there was little concern about this since the team sold out every home game. But with ticket sales a bit slower as the third season approaches, the Cardinals are requiring fans who want to buy tickets to the Dallas game on Oct. 12 to also buy tickets for the Aug. 7 exhibition opener vs. New Orleans. Cardinals fans have “created a decisive home-field advantage” the past two years, and the team wants to keep it that way by discouraging single-game ticket sales to Dallas Cowboys fans, team spokesman Mark Dalton said.

It’s great and all that the Cardinals organization wants to make sure that there aren’t any Dallas fans in the stadium. But two problems here.

First, it’s a free country. And last I checked, if you’re willing to travel the 15 hours and 12 minutes from Dallas to Phoenix and there are tickets available for sale, you should be allowed to purchase them. Otherwise, I think that’s called discrimination.

And secondly, maybe they should rethink this policy if they’re not selling out every game. Because if I’m a Cardinals fan and someone tells me that I have to essentially pay double for an individual ticket to a football game, I’m, oh, I don’t know, a lot less likely to purchase it.