  Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6924 Registered: 12-2003 |
I am struck this morning with the surreality of this past year in the city of Detroit. AllStar Game last summer. Sod for the new boulevard islands. SuperBowl this past February. Gratiot gets some bright new retro-streetlights. We learn that we can handle the biggest party in the free world. Pistons go right up to the Championship. Oops, heartbreak, but we know they can do it. Wings go right up to the Championship. Oops, heartbreak again, and a few of the veterans retire. Tigers go right up to the Championship. They can take us past Oops...and make anyone older than forty re-live their 1968 memories. Final Four in a few months. What a blur! What have I missed in my listing? IF anything, the world is going to get SICK of Detroit's over-coverage on their tee-vee stage! Then, if we're lucky, they'll basically forget about us again, albeit with a better aftertaste...or afterGLOW, depending upon how intimate they got with us. Best part of it...our teams have been winning by showing that it isn't just about the stars...it is the team...and obviously with the Tigers, the fans. Cheers on another Friday morning... (Message edited by Gannon on October 20, 2006) | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1115 Registered: 12-2003 |
Yeah if we only had jobs! | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 119 Registered: 03-2006 |
final four at ford field is in 2009, not in a few months. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 567 Registered: 11-2005 |
Thanks and good afternoon to you.  | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6925 Registered: 12-2003 |
Hey, when I first wrote it, it wasn't noon yet! Damn that edit chain time delay... I added that Final Four from a discussion with a friend, thanks for clarifying...2009 seems a long way away. We don't need no stinking jobs...we need to completely revisit how we live and truly plan for an oil-poor future. Since that isn't going to happen quickly, we need to put on our entrepreneurial caps and think up what the rest of the country will buy that we can build. It will help if we can re-use the materials our local scrappers are kindly 'mining' for us... | ||
Scottr Member Username: Scottr Post Number: 67 Registered: 07-2006 |
The shock won the wnba championship. and the wings didn't quite go up to theirs, they lost in the first round. yes, this has been a good run for detroit. maybe the lions will continue it next year... but i'm not holding my breath. | ||
Naturalsister Member Username: Naturalsister Post Number: 841 Registered: 11-2004 |
I feel like the Steelers Superbowl win added a bit to the mix - strictly because of 'The Bus' and the exposure he has gotten with winning in his hometown, then retiring. I'm waiting for us to make news for something other than sports, albeit a HUGE sports fan. later - naturalsister | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4425 Registered: 11-2003 |
World class heartburn after 3 Coneys at The Lafayette. Don't get any better than Detroit, good-day. jjaba, Proudly Westside. | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 131 Registered: 05-2006 |
Naturalsister, we make the news every day for something besides sports: the crappy automotive industry. Unfortunate, but true. | ||
Andyguard73 Member Username: Andyguard73 Post Number: 144 Registered: 03-2006 |
I don't know that its as big as the things you've listed, but the announcement about racing coming back to Detroit was pretty big, and of course theres always the Powerboat races and the Marathon | ||
Rrl Member Username: Rrl Post Number: 677 Registered: 12-2003 |
Didn't some hot chick from the D win that silly model search reality TV show, too? | ||
Kiplinger Member Username: Kiplinger Post Number: 40 Registered: 06-2006 |
and wasn't De-licious from Detroit the winner of the Flavor of Love? http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/f lavor_of_love/series.jhtml | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 569 Registered: 11-2005 |
This is supposed to be things to be proud of, not the dubious achievement awards. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 849 Registered: 11-2003 |
^And she is a DPS alum :-D | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 850 Registered: 11-2003 |
Also, a woman from Detroit was in the finals on that show ealrier this year...hoopz | ||
Ohudson Member Username: Ohudson Post Number: 155 Registered: 09-2004 |
Hoopz is from the Detroit area too. So, Detroits 2 for 2 on Flavor of Love.. | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 126 Registered: 06-2006 |
The D, remotely, also got press from Seger's latest album and going on tour again. I'm really thrilled that, unlike the SuperBowl, the local World Series games will have LOCAL music included, like Seger doing "God Bless America". Not sure if there's any Motown planned but there SHOULD be. Maybe Aretha doing a National Anthem (and not lip-syncing like she did at the Gov.'s Inaugeration ). | ||
7even Member Username: 7even Post Number: 121 Registered: 03-2006 |
I did not want to make a new thread. They is going to be a segment on Detroit in a few minutes on the NBC nightly news. It is channel 4 for me. It looks like it will be a good segment. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 783 Registered: 12-2005 |
7even, thanks for the heads up. I just caught it at 6:50. Looks like a positive story. Shame it was so short. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 250 Registered: 01-2006 |
Good story. It showed the good, the bad, and the ugly. However, for just one week...all is great in the motor city!! | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 784 Registered: 12-2005 |
It was basically sympathetic about Detroit's economic situation and it noted how much Detroit needed these recent upbeat sports events. KK got a good plug in for Detroit too. | ||
Naturalsister Member Username: Naturalsister Post Number: 842 Registered: 11-2004 |
Wash_man, My reference to NEWS, meant/means good or positive exposure - like what the sports stories have given us. Born in Detroit and having lived in 4 other major US cities, trust me - I know the 'word on the street' and in the news concerning the D. later - naturalsister :-P |
